A BNSF manifest and UP coal train goes over and under at Santa Fe Junction.

A sizeable block of Conrail boxcars follows BN and Santa Fe locomotives on a westbound crossing the UP Coffeyville Sub diamonds at Sheffield interlocking, KCMO.

A westbound BNSF intermodal train with a big block of TOFC on the head end snakes through Kansas City, Missouri as it makes its way over the KCT line and heads towards Argentine Yard for a recrew.... (more)

Back in the days of crossings at grade rather than jumpovers in the KC terminal, UP symbol MDMKC comes off the former C&NW connection and is about to cross UP's Coffeyville Sub - former MP rails. ... (more)

With Kansas City's skyline in the distance, a Union Pacific transfer job meets a CPKC yard job, with both roads represented.

Cooperating on coal. Photo by Gary W. Zeitler, from my collection.

Nightfall In The City | A bit of muted color remains in the sky on the evening of Sunday, May 7, 2023 as a Union Pacific yard transfer train creeps forward, heading east in Kansas City, MO ... (more)

Missouri River Crossing | Heading south across the Missouri River on the Hannibal Bridge, a loaded coal train enters Kansas City, MO (leaving North Kansas City) at a snail's pace on the eve... (more)

Transcontinental Stack Train | One of BNSF's many intermodal trains through Kansas City is headed east on the flyover at Santa Fe Junction, crossing from the Kansas side of town into Missou... (more)

Holding at West Bottoms | A trio of ES44AC engines on the head end of a northbound empty coal train, seen here on May 7, 2023 holding at a dwarf signal (just out of frame to the right), pau... (more)

OBEX coal train back when it seemed like it would last forever. I think I remember saying "If I see one more SD40-2 on a coal train I think I'll toss my cookies." Photo by Gary Zeitler... (more)

It seemed to us that the U-boats and SD40-2s and nicely matched coal trains would last forever but in hindsight it wasn't that long. Photo by Gary Zeitler.

On the date the F40PH must have failed and had to be dragged in. I always wondered what happens when HEP fails and there is no backup. Do the cars have some way of generating heat? Important to... (more)

Photo by Gary Zeitler, from my collection. Scapegoat?Maybe. A major wreck was determined to be caused by the trucks, at high speed, so the entire class was scrapped (oops, recycled). I have to ... (more)

Photo by Gary Zeitler. From my collection.