The La Junta Subdivision still sports sidings with jointed rail as this eastbound manifest rolls east towards Kansas City and eventually it's destination of Galesburg, IL.
The westbound roadrailer rolls through the siding at Aikman to await a meet with an eastbound Z train.
G NENFTX9 04A struggles up the 18 mile long, 0.4% grade up through the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas and passes by the historical homestead known as "Pioneer Bluff".
The second trip of the day for the BNSF Employee Special in Newton, KS sees the train rolling west alongside the UP's former Rock Island "Golden State Route" west of Hutchinson.
Z KCKLAC rolls across the bridge over K-177 near MP148 between Matfield Green and Cassoday in the middle of the scenic Flint Hills of eastern Kansas.
A short Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA Z train leans into the curve just on the west side of El Dorado Lake.
Long Beach, CA bound stacks begin the climb up into El Dorado after crossing a long causeway over El Dorado Lake.
Westbound SoCal stacks roll through the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas and around the superelevated curve just past the west siding switch at Aikman.
A coal train derailment at Jens earlier in the day has these two westbounds tied down at Helena awaiting the reopening of the 3rd Subdivision the next day.
With the climb over Mullan Pass behind them, two former Santa Fe SD75Ms and a "peach" Dash 9 start the descent westward to Garrison with a five unit helper set of MRL SD70ACes cut in 78 deep.
H KCKDEN1 15A rolls west on the La Junta Subdivision with a BNSF Dash 9, CP ES44AC and BNSF GP60 on the head end.
Four GEs lead one of the hottest intermodal trains on the transcon up the 14 mile long, 0.4% grade through the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas.
A peach and a foreigner from the east lead todays Kansas City, KS to Galveston, TX manifest over the Cottonwood River just east of the siding at Gladstone, KS.
The "Shiloh Limited" rolls east out of Kansas City for St. Louis just a little off the advertised.
