This southbound long-range local has a new crew and is about to resume its trek. A few miles south of Fort Scott, at a spot called Edward - population one switch and zero people - the train will ... (more)

In the early hours of the day, a Union Pacific manifest train heads east past Hollenberg, KS on August 9, 2021.

Having just crossed from Nebraska into Kansas, Big Boy number 4014 heads east along the Marysville Subdivision past the community of Hollenberg on a sunny August 9, 2021.

ATSF GP30 sits at the station, with UP's station in the distance. UP's station was a union station, serving UP (Kansas Pacific), ATSF, MP and CRI&P.

Approaching Enterprise, the ASV excursion train rolls through the grass along an old Rock Island mainline.

A shot made from the top of the bleachers at the KWU stadium shows the UP's McPherson turn headed south behind a MP GE.

Three SD40s are still accelerating their KC-bound train a couple miles out of Coffeyville yard.

The UP-MP merger is not quite a done-deal, but an MP GEBB is at the head of UP's McPherson turn as it heads south and out of town.

The Abilene & Smoky Valley Alco S1 leads the afternoon excursion train back towards Abilene on the weedy rails.

Five geeps and a GEBB sit on the engine ready tracks in Coffeyville. That's the railroad YMCA in the background.

Salina was on a looping branch off MP's Pueblo main, and normal service in the early 1980s was a local with a geep or two and a handful of cars. When grain was moving, MP would send as-needed ext... (more)

GP15-1 on a local out of Coffeyville has a split personality.

BN power pulling coal empties waits as one of MP's coal service SD40-2s leads four more SD40-2s and a loaded coal train. I spent a lot of time in southeast Kansas in the 1980s, and saw lots of PR... (more)

When UP and MP merged, a decision was made to pull most through traffic off the former MP line to Pueblo. That reduction was offset by Rio Grande (and later SP) trains running on rights between P... (more)

School kids line up to tour GP15-1 1563, which is powering the HERBIE safety special.