Power off the previous night's YKC224 awaits the same crew's assignment later in the day as the dawn sky illuminates in the background.

UP SD40-2 3593 was painted in Desert Storm camouflage in 1991, to acknowledge UP employees who took part in the Persian Gulf War.

An empty Palo, AL, coal train off the Ft. Scott Sub rolls into KCT Trackage in the West Bottoms in KC. The train is heading for Murray Yard on the St. Joe Sub for furtherance to Lincoln, NE, and o... (more)

An empty grain train bound for Bayard, IA, heads towards Murray Yard as they pass thru the West Bottoms in KC. The train is near or pass the farthest north end of the Ft. Scott Sub and the Old Uni... (more)

A loaded grain train departs KC at MP 7 bound for Mexico. Next crew change point is Pittsburg for this crew.

A northbound grain empty rumbles across the 1928 cement Gregory Boulevard Viaduct Bridge around MP 15 on the southside of KC. The bridge spans 500 feet long on the KCS Pittsburg Sub. It is one of ... (more)

A westbound Kansas City Southern grain train snakes through downtown Kansas City on the Kansas City Terminal’s East-West Corridor behind a pair of ES44ACs – 4680 and 4687. KCT’s East-West C... (more)

Built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in October 1941, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad E6A 630 was one of five E6As purchased by the railroad. The E6s earned their keep pulling ... (more)

Beneath the clouds of a mild January 24, 2022, a BNSF intermodal train heads west through the heart of Kansas City, MO on a portion of the southern transcon.

Kansas City Southern SD40 3144 was found sitting in a deadline at the railroad’s Knoche Yard, along with a bunch of other surplus SD40s. KCS 3144 was built by GMD as CN 5085. When first acquir... (more)

KCS Knoche yard to UP's 18th street yard transfer heading west at Standard Seed on the UP KC Metro sub.

Here comes one of the UP trackage rights intermodal trains that run the Transcon to access the former Golden State Route. On KCT track it is crossing the UP (ex-MP Coffeyville Sub) diamonds at She... (more)

A former UP unit is at Union Station with the EB passenger train. Photo by Gary W. Zeitler.

The one and only Gateway Eastern GP38, No. 2000, is in the company of Gateway Western No. 2001 as they bring 55 cars across the UP diamonds at Sheffield, KCMO. Gateway Eastern is a short line in t... (more)

A KCS transfer holds just outside of Knoche yard with a pair of Maces on the point while a yard transfer rolls past and the final light of day glows around the city Skyline.