Southbound local departing Pittsburg, KS.

High plains drifter. An Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe local rolls across the high plains of eastern Kansas, just east of Abilene, at sunrise.

This image depicts AT&SF 3415, a Class 3400 P... (more)

Rock Island train number 509, The Rocket, is seen at Wichita Kansas in 1940. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Kansas Prairie Dawn. Just minutes after sunrise, an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe local makes its way across the Kansas prairie east of Abilene, with a few passengers, some small freight item... (more)

Up 6450 heads a westbound freight through Armourdale yard. Meanwhile a few loads and empty coal's awaite crews.

Originally US Army, later Johnson Co. Industrial Railroad, slide labelled "Midwest Historical Society" but unable to find this organization in KS and later history of locomotive is unkno... (more)

ATSF 865 leads a hot TOFC train thru Ottawa, KS. on a beautiful day in March of 1995. That paint scheme sure looked good!

A pair of SKOL SD40-2's prepare to cross over the CPKC in Pittsburg Kansas.

A remote control hump job at BNSF's Argentine Yard in Kansas City, Kansas pulls west behind a snoot nose SD39-2 and an SD60M. The crew is pulling this cut of cars from the yard to then shove over ... (more)

A UP empty coal train is coming off of the BNSF Fort Scott Sub and on to the KCT High Line where they will head over to Fairfax on the other side of the Kansas River for a crew change and the west... (more)

Bnsf 3831 and ton's of other Ge's waite to be serviced at Argentine yard.

In order to handle cars in the Erman Scrap Yard, a GE 55-ton diesel that formerly belonged to the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Mines was acquired. Engine 1038 is seen here with a t... (more)

UP 6920 leads a manifest west across the Kansas River headed for 18th Street Yard.

"If only..." That's a term you can often apply to this railroad pretty often. The Cimarron Valley Railroad generated a lot of interest when these two ex CSX C40-8s were repainted in this... (more)

KANSAS CITY KS March 10 1979 — Kansas City Southern NW2 4200 is ready for a switching job. My photo.