A spring and summer of above average precipitation has left the Flint Hills of east central Kansas looking like it's still May as an eastbound Z train rolls alongside the new double main project w... (more)

A nice summer evening in the Flint Hills of East-Central Kansas nears sundown as a BNSF Z train takes the short way to Kansas City going east up the Emporia Subdivision. Due to the continuous doub... (more)

ATSF 5142 leads a 7 unit consist thru Matfield Green, KS in June of 1989.

Every bridge is better with a warbonnet on it, in this case it's over Kansas Highway 177 near Matfield Green on a summer afternoon.

Stacks at the west end of Matfield Green siding.

A peaceful evening in the Flint Hills of east central Kansas is briefly interrupted by the sounds of General Electric diesels as the engineer of this eastbound Z notches the throttle out after cle... (more)

A pair of Kodachrome's pass thru the Kansas countryside near Matfield Green in June of 1989.

ATSF 8069 has been repainted in the Kodachrome scheme as it waits in the siding for an opposing train to pass. Koadachrome's were fairly common in the Matfield Green area of Kansas in 1989.

ATSF 7443 leads a freight past a farm in the scenic Matfield Green area of Kansas.

Evening light illuminates a westbound stack train blasting around the curve at the W.E. of Matfield Green, Kansas.

Kansas isn't completely flat, as this southbound led by #8137 in the Matfield Green area shows.

Joliet IL to Pittsburg CA unit steel coil train UJOLPIT was passing through the Flint Hills of Kansas near Matfield Green

On Monday, I decided to spend this afternoon down on the Transcon, so I ran down to Emporia to see what I could come up with. Sure enough, the NS 8099 came rolling through with this westbound grai... (more)

A loaded grain train from Polo, IL to Joel, TX pulls westbound out of Matfield Green.

The last light of the day is cast over the hamlet of Matfield Green, Kansas as the head two motors on this empty coal train bound for the North Rochelle Mine roll across the countryside.