EMDs Doing All The Work A trio of KCS EMDs takes CPKC YKK12-02 across town to UP 18th St/Armourdale Yard with interchange traffic.

UP 3772 leads a quartet of SD40-2s into Sheffield interlocking in Kansas City, MO. The southbound grain train is about to cross the Kansas City Terminal Rwy. where there seemed to be a continual p... (more)

BNSF GP39E 2931, is one of the first locomotives to carry Burlington Northern Santa Fe markings. No other locomotives wore this exact scheme (BNSF 2911's scheme was similar, but not identical). ... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Guaranteed Service Intermodal train Q-CHISBD7-02 passes Kansas City’s Union Station as it heads from Chicago, Illinois, to San Bernardino, California. A qua... (more)

Couldn't let this one go unremarked. I've always wondered about the purpose of that little door in this 1957-58 built cab. Photo by Gary Zeitler. From my collection.

BNSF 9232 and UP 7009 meet in passing at Old Union Depot Interlocking in the West Bottoms of Kansas City.

Three aging Santa Fe Warbonnets being upgraded to RCO by Mid-America Car in Kansas City.

"Eli" is a full size, 3-foot-gauge steam locomotive built by Crown Metal Products in 1973 for Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri. The railroad was initially sponsored by Burlington ... (more)

BNSF 7755 leads a twelve-unit consist on an empty grain train through the West Bottoms of Kansas City.

When I lived in Atlanta, used to enjoy catching the NS 732 in the area as it was guaranteed BNSF power in the land of CSX and NS. Now, after moving to Kansas City, I can catch it on home rails. ... (more)

CP + KCS=CPKC CPKC YKK12 is seen making their way west on the KC Metro Sub with a pair of Geeps with traffic for UP.

A rare sight these days. An early three-window SD60M leads the Fort Scott local out of Kansas City heading south.

Kansas City West Bottoms 1415 is working State Line Road in - where else - Kansas City's West Bottoms. The KCRR took over this former Union Pacific trackage in 2024. Incidentally, the train is i... (more)

Kansas City West Bottoms' ex-Canadian National GMD1 - sporting the unique KCRR "noodle" on its nose - is working along State Line Road on a warm November afternoon.

The 2025 edition of CPKC's Holiday Train, led by CP 2246, rounds the curve at Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City as it heads back to CPKC's Knoche Yard to tie down for the night.