Grain Train Over Santa Fe Junction | Just before 7 in the evening on a sunny Saturday, May 31, 2025, a pair of locomotives lead Union Pacific grain train GSMYCW over Santa Fe Junction and i... (more)

West Bottoms RR GMD1 has entered the street running section of State Line Road as they work Dana Chemicals.

There were only 23 GP40X's built. Union Pacific purchased six of them. These came with the HTB truck which were supposed to improve traction. These locomotives offered 3500 horsepower and were bas... (more)

An EMD Demo sits in Argentine Yard coupled to a ATSF FP45. EMD attempts at streamlining the spartan cab never really took off, eventually giving way to wide cabs. This is an attractive paint schem... (more)

When I walked into the Railway Service Contractors facility in Kansas City, Kansas, the last thing I expected to see was the Alco FA2 Western Maryland 303. I had last seen this engine in Barton, M... (more)

Loads And Empties | A single locomotive pulls a train of double-stacked shipping containers next to a stopped string of empty well cars next to Armourdale Yard in Kansas City, KS on a sunny... (more)

Just some of the many diesel locomotives around the massive diesel locomotive shops in the BNSF Argentine yard.

BNSF 4459 is one of many locomotives at the diesel shops in the BNSF Argentine yard.

Midwest Rail 205 is being overhauled at the Railway Service Contractors facility in Kansas City, Kansas. This GP-9 was originally the DRGW 5904. Photo taken with permission.

When I walked into the Railway Service Contractors facility in Kansas City, Kansas, the last thing I expected to see was the Alco FA2 Western Maryland 303. I had last seen this engine in Barton, M... (more)

Former Patriot Rail 1902 is being overhauled at the Railway Service Contractors facility in Kansas City. Photo taken with permission wearing all required safety gear.

Not only is the diesel shops in the BNSF Argentine yard full of BNSF locomotives, there is also visitors from Ferromex, Norfolk Southern, CEFX and a former MetroLink passenger engine with LETX mar... (more)

A BN caboose is in the consist on this switching job at Argentine Yard.

Kansas City Landscape | Alongside the Kansas River, a yard transfer train from Norfolk Southern's Avondale Yard approaches the BNSF's Argentine Yard in Kansas City, KS on a bright and warm ... (more)

The recent BNSF merger brings a rainbow of power to a move to balance power from the former BN Murray Yard in Missouri to the former ATSF Argentine Yard in Kansas.