A CN Dash-8M and IC SD70 are on the point of a BNSF train travelling across the Kansas City Terminal. The train is passing Union Station and the famed Western Auto building of Kansas City.

Amtrak's 406 is on the point of the River Runner with the exhibit train laying over at Kansas City Union Station. The exhibit train will continue on to Topeka for a weekend display the following m... (more)

Amtrak's 406 lays over in Kansas City for a trip to Topeka in the morning as an auto rack train glides by on the KCT main.

Known as “Erie-builts,” KCS Fairbanks-Morse 61 was being coupled to a GP-30 at Kansas City as Four Aces RS-1 stood by on Feb. 22, 1966. The FM’s had only four traction motors on the 6-wh... (more)

No wonder these four Fairbanks-Morse 6-axle diesels (61A, 61B, 60B, 62B) were still on KCS’s roster on May 22, 1966 — there were all re-engined by EMD ten years earlier in 1956. They soon wen... (more)

Squatty-body KCS Alco HH-1000 switcher 1121 was already 26 years old when captured on May 22, 1966 at Kansas City, Mo. But it had only six more months of life before being retired in November.

KCS E8 27 was looking a bit ratty as it led a tiny 3-car “Southern Belle” out of Kansas City Union Depot at Tower 6 on Feb. 12, 1969. Trains 1 and 2, the “Southern Belle,” didn’t surviv... (more)

Milwaukee Road 8 Duplex Roomette-6 Roomette-4 Double Bedroom sleeper "Jefferson River", Kansas City, MO. It's been decades since the Pullman-built sleeper graced the road's premiere 'Olympian Hiaw... (more)

Union Pacific GE C44-9W No. 9575 is in the railroad’s shop at Kansas City, Missouri, for dynamic brake grid replacement on October 22, 2013.

A welder repairs a damaged plow on EMD GP38-2 No. 641 at Union Pacific’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility at Kansas City, Missouri, on October 21, 2013.

Busy times at BN XING - UP trains pass on the KCT flyover to 18th Street/Armourdale, as Scherer Coal loads roll by on the Ft. Scott line.

A BNSF Dash 9 is leading Amtrak train #4, the Southwest Chief, into Kansas City Union Station for its station stop. The WWI Memorial looms in the distance.

Kansas City Southern locomotives gather at Knoche Yard in Kansas City, Missouri, on the bleak wintery day of December 8, 1985. EMD products prevail, with NW2 No. 4217, SD40-2 No. 665 and SD40 No. ... (more)

Mid South power laying over at Knoche yard

KCT's "Bananas" lead a transfer from NS's Avondale Yard back toward Mill St. Yard. The train has just crossed the Hannibal Bridge from North KC and is now descending into the West Bottoms. Also lo... (more)