Sometime in the late 1960s a couple of units in the original "Southern Belle" scheme share duties. KCS 25 was a "rebuild" of an E6A which had apparently been wrecked. As I un... (more)

At almost 700 axles, a massive BNSF manifest passes through open fields as it approaches the Missouri River.

Kansas City Southern Dash 9-44CW 4400's heritage is easy to discern, as it still wears the colors for BNSF Railway, from which GECX acquired it, and from whom the KCS leases it for "horsepowe... (more)

General Motors Electro-Motive Division built just seven SD45X diesels in 1970 – four demonstrators and three for Southern Pacific Railroad. EMDX 4201-4203 were built with SP's typical array of ... (more)

A loaded coal train crosses the low bridge at Island Road before crossing over the Missouri River north of St. Louis.

A loaded coal train makes its way down the Hannibal Sub.

Bnsf 4329 Takes a rack train east over the KCT high bridge.

A BNSF ES44C4 brings up the rear as a DPU on westbound manifest freight Q NWHLAC6 30X as it makes its way through Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City, Missouri, crossing over a Union Pacific eastboun... (more)

A&S 2205 leads the daily transfer over to Saint Louis Mo.

Busy times at Birmingham Jct. Wamx pulls a cut of cars west meanwhile Ns 224 waites to pull ahead and shove into Voltz yard.

UP on NS heading to UP NS 115 hanging the left at North Chicago Junction with a pair of UP GEs as they're making their way to Union Pacific's 18th Street Yard on the other side of the Kan... (more)

UP 7817 is shoving on the rear of a tank car train diverginig on to the BNSF Fort Scott Sub as a BNSF Stack Track climbs the Argentine Flyoer headed for Argentine Yard. UP has trackage rights... (more)

A friendly wave and horn from the engineer acknowledge the photographer as the Texas Eagle makes an on time departure from St. Louis towards its final destination of Chicago, IL.

About an hour before thunderstorms would arrive on this hot 95-degree afternoon, BNSF 4678 passes by the Kansas City Union Depot with a string of grain cars.

Sitting at what was once the largest passenger and freight station in the world with 32 tracks for service, RPCX 738 and some passenger cars sit on the few remaining tracks that barely see service... (more)