Salina once played host to 4 different railroads. The Union Pacific, Santa Fe, Missouri Pacific, and Rock all came into Salina. All 4 railroads had trackage just east of the depot, but only the ex... (more)

A coal service SD40-2 (SD40-2c to MP) teams with two more SD40s to take a grain extra off the Salina branch. Regular trains on the branch typically rated just a pair of GP38s.

ATSF GP30 sits at the station, with UP's station in the distance. UP's station was a union station, serving UP (Kansas Pacific), ATSF, MP and CRI&P.

A shot made from the top of the bleachers at the KWU stadium shows the UP's McPherson turn headed south behind a MP GE.

The UP-MP merger is not quite a done-deal, but an MP GEBB is at the head of UP's McPherson turn as it heads south and out of town.

Salina was on a looping branch off MP's Pueblo main, and normal service in the early 1980s was a local with a geep or two and a handful of cars. When grain was moving, MP would send as-needed ext... (more)

MP 2300 is less than a year old, but still draws less than glamorous assignments, like working the Salina branch. The crew will perhaps make a run down to the Pueblo main at Gypsum, and that will... (more)

At merger time, it was hard to believe MP would disappear. All these years later, it is sometimes hard to remember what it was like to have so many Class Ones.

An MKT/OKKT crew works former Rock Island trackage in Salina with a pair of geeps.

This track is UP's McPherson branch. Before the merger with Missouri Pacific, it saw just a six-days-a-week turn to McPherson that usually consisted of a B-B diesel and a handful of cars. As a c... (more)

If I remember correctly, in 1987 there was a single daily KC-Salina scheduled train on UP's Kansas Pacific. West of Salina to Denver, there was just a tri-weekly freight. That is why this train ... (more)

Santa Fe CF7 2449 leads two other CF7s past the depot at Salina KS June 1979. Steven W. Kindschy Photo from my Collection.

Don't believe everything you read.

A young fellow paces the GP38-2s heading down the middle of Fourth (or was it Fifth?) Street. Train is headed south on UP's McPherson Branch, but it is a new train, put on after UP/MP merger, and... (more)

Salina was located on a loop off MP's Pueblo main, and by the 1980s was served by local freights that were generally pretty short and typically pulled by a GP38 or two. When grain started moving,... (more)