This morning, I got out to photograph the UP 4222 leading the PHNCB through my neck of the woods, and was happy to have gotten it at three locations; Topeka, Lawrence, and Bonner Springs. All thr... (more)

Passing the sharp curve passing the depot.

This morning, I ran out to Lawrence, KS where I photographed the UP 2002 heading around Don Ball Curve in charge of the MTPNS.

SP 8004 leads a freight past the Lawrence, KS depot in June of 1989.

A short local eases by the beautiful UP passenger station, currently in use as a tourist information center, at a location nicknamed "Don Ball Curve".

With a brief whistle stop in Lawrence complete, #844 has its short consist well in hand hammering out of town with UP Train PFBKC2 15 at Turkey Creek on the UP Kansas Sub. towards KC.

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A Topeka RR Days passenger train passes a semaphore just west of Lawrence, KS. Included in the consist are UP as well as ATSF equipment. The UP cars were brought to town by the UP3985 which was al... (more)

Union Pacific 844 accelerates out of a display/servicing stop at Lawrence, Kansas. The locomotive is on the last leg of a Marysville-Kansas City trip, part of a larger Cheyenne-Memphis trip.

The local has their power tied up on the old freight house trackage hiding in the weeds below the towering grain silos near the Lawrence depot.

Westbound Union Pacific freight train behind 4-12-2 no. 9047 charging through Lawrence, Kansas, on Christmas Eve, 1950. Photograph by Wallace W. Abbey, collection of the Center for Railroad Photog... (more)

Sunset over the Sunset Route: Booming along east of Lawrence, Kansas, F7A 676 has a couple head-end cars, an RDC and a coach, the remnants of Train 40, a once-important secondary run on the Southe... (more)

Hillcrest load UP Train CNAMR9 14 passes through the plant at Turkey Creek, CP Z037 on Main Track 1, as UP Train SSJESW 12 sits on 2 tied down crewless in the middle of the control point in the di... (more)

Train is enroute to Kansas City, MO. for a open house.

A few miles east of Lawrence, KS on the UP Kansas Sub, the late afternoon light just seemed to 'pop' on the scene in front of me while I waited on the westbound parade to arrive. The farmhouse in... (more)

CREX 1346 churns ahead 50 cars to make the first spot at Westar's Lawrence Energy Center. This train is delivering the 4th load this year from the Highlight Mine in Wyoming. This train is unique i... (more)