Brining up the rear of a parade of KCS SBs was a QKCSH-09 with a single AC4400 for power. They're seen passing the site of a former steel mill. The KCT East/West Corridor is seen in the background... (more)

KCS freight crosses BNSF at Neosho, MO. Just ahead is McElhany grade, which will test the two locos up front, and the additional diesel on the rear of the rain.

Another loaded grain train is about to cross BNSF's former SL-SF main as it heads for the Gulf. It's been easy-going since Joplin, but in a few hundred yards the headend will hit the bottom of Mc... (more)

Ex-KCS 2000, aka the "NAFTA unit", is an appropriate leader for an solid train of imports originating on KCS de Mexico passing 295-09 waiting on a crew change. As Mexican business has i... (more)

Dallas to Shreveport train departs on time with the ex-NAFTA engine leading eastbound on a HOT 102 DEG F summer afternoon.

What would be the last Q107 I ever shot leaving North Baltimore is rolling east out of the yard with an attractive pair of repaints on the point.

Q107 blasts past the still standing tower in Dunkirk.

Q107 rolls off a bridge on the south side of Kenton.

What may be one of the last Q107's to run down the Toledo Branch heads south at Hancock led by a repainted AC44. The Q106/107 train pair will supposedly no longer work North Baltimore and will re... (more)

This thing sat there all day long looking so good, with the stupid door open. We would circle back from time to time and on the last go around, as the sun was setting, somebody had shut the door.... (more)

An empty coal train out of Lawrence, KS for Kansas City Power & Light's plant at Tecumseh to Black Thunder Mine, WY rolls thru the reverse curve at MP 304 east of Hyannis. This train is still 60 ... (more)