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)

A recently renumbered BNSF SD75M accompanies a newer ACe and a GEVO on the rear of a loaded coal train that has just come across the Hannibal Bridge from North KC. The train will continue south on... (more)

No Meet No Pass and for good reason... Four Boeing planes are on the point of a manifest climbing up the gooseneck, heading across the Hannibal Bridge into North Kansas City. The tight corn... (more)

Three locomotives are inside Union Pacific’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility for some maintenance work on October 21, 2013.

Carrying some tools of his trade, Randy Salisbury pauses alongside the Blomberg truck of Union Pacific EMD GP15-1 No. Y697 inside UP’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility at K.C., Missouri, on Octob... (more)

NS 8737 is accompanied by a UP SD60M and SD60 on a transfer coming down from North KC, through the West Bottoms, heading for UP's 18th St. Yard. In the distance, a Neff-18th St Yard transfer is al... (more)

A trio of UP 70M's and a CSX 40-2 are on the point of an eastbound stack train that is crossing the KCT to get through Kansas City. You cant see Kansas City's World War I Memorial in the distance.... (more)

BNSF 2131 and an ex-ATSF SD40-2 are on the point of the D70 transfer. The train has just come across the Hannibal Bridge and down the gooseneck from North KC. Passing under the massive 12th Street... (more)

CSXT 8199 and UP 7019 are on the point of a BNSF autorack train that is cruising across the KCT toward Argentine Yard as a UP stack train heads east toward Chicago.

BNSF 2131 is on the point of Norfolk Southern's D70 Transfer. The train is heading back to BNSF's Argentine Yard from NS's Voltz Yard near Birmingham, MO. Here D70 hugs the retaining wall down the... (more)

With dynamic brake grids needing replacing in Union Pacific GE C44-9W No. 9666, a machinist in UP’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility performs some maintenance on the access panels on October 22, ... (more)

A machinist at Union Pacific’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility works on the access panels for the dynamic brake grids on top of GE C44-9W No. 9666 on October 22, 2013.