Sitting alone, in the middle of a mid February snow storm. IAIS 516 in a Rock Island tribute scheme sits on the KCS ready track at Mid America Car.

SP 266 brings up the rear of UP train GSWAWW 12 as the train rolls east past Kansas City Union Station. SP 266 is one of, to my knowledge at least, 13 Remaining Unpatched SP Locomotives (11 AC4400... (more)

A pair of BNSF SW1500's shove north of 25th St. heading for the former Frisco 19th Street Yard in Kansas City's West Bottoms.

One of the 4 CP MP15DC's sits outside Mid America Locomotive in Kansas City, MO

A nose-to-nose comparison of two classic schemes on modern widecab locomotives-- one executed a little better than the other.

Just released from Mid America Car IAIS' newly painted unit sits on the ready track waiting for KCS to pick it up.

This afternoon, Mid-America Car in KC released the Iowa Interstate #516 and placed it out on the setout track for the KCS. The paint on this is a nod to the Rock Island's red and yellow from the ... (more)

This afternoon, Mid-America Car in KC released the Iowa Interstate #516 and placed it out on the setout track for the KCS. The paint on this is a nod to the Rock Island's red and yellow from the ... (more)

The colorful nose of Kansas City Southern FP9 KCS 1 shines in the morning sun at Kansas City Union Station, Missouri, on the morning of October 26, 2013.

The dwarf signal tells us that we are alongside Kansas City Terminal Railway tracks at Union Station, where nameless Train 15, formerly the Kansas City Rocket, is just rolling in from Minneapolis-... (more)

Just days off the erecting floor at GEā€™sErie, Pennsylvania, plant, spotless U25B 230 with two older sisters leads a freight up the approach to the Harry S Truman Bridge at Birmingham Missouri. O... (more)

One of the several reactivated UP standard cab Dash 8's that has went through Mid America Car in Kansas City is ready to go and is waiting to be picked up by the KCS for interchange back to the Un... (more)

Just released from the shops, IAIS 515 and IAIS 514 sit awaiting pickup by the KCS for transfer to CP and delivery to IAIS. The 3rd GEVO in the order will be in a Rock Island scheme.

Here we see coal empties from the UP and BNSF sandwiching a KCT Mill Street Yard to KCS Knoche Yard Transfer at The Incline. The coal empties on BNSF Train E KCLBAM0 124A are climbing north up ... (more)

The power from CP Train 474-30 sits in the old roundhouse at KCS Knoche Yard. The leader is a rare for this area CP SD90MAC. I hadn't seen one of these since I was working into Chicago years ago... (more)