A loaded export taconite train passes a prescribed burn near Matfield Green. The state of Kansas allows burning of prairie during the month of April, and the smoke and smell of fires is ever prese... (more)

Controlled burns sprawling across the Flint Hills of Kansas cast an orange glow along the horizon as BNSF's Stockton, California to Willow Springs, Illinois Z train sprints east across the Souther... (more)

An eastbound manifest rolls through the curves in Matfield Green, a spot pretty much defined by railroad stations, not towns. Thanks to my friend John Rost, who dragged me away from shooting rost... (more)

The Flint Hills are just turning green as this eastbound empty grain train rolls downhill between Matfield Green and Bazar.

Westbound stacks blend in to the colors of fall in the Flint Hills.

A westbound solid trailer Z train approaches Matfield Green, KS on 11/16/13.

A westbound Z train passes a stack of old rail as it heads west on the transcon at Matfield Green, KS 11/16/13.

A westbound stack train passes through the west end of Matfield Green, KS on 11/16/13.

The drab, boringness of late Fall has set in as this westbound intermodal snakes through the Flint Hills.

Another shooter heads west over the KS-177 highway bridge halfway between Matfield Green and Cassoday that has seen countless other shooters pass over it through the years.

Four GEs lead a trailer jet through the small hamlet of Matfield Green one late summer mid afternoon in Kansas.

After a meet with a westbound at Matfield Green, the eastbound roadrailer continues its eastward journey through the Flint Hills of east central Kansas.

Los Angeles, CA bound stacks roll by the west end of the siding at Matfield Green on their way to the next crew change point at Wellington, KS.

Four GEs in four different paint schemes lug an Kansas City, KS to Oklahoma City, OK extra manifest up the 0.4% grade through the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas.

Cars and trucks destined for the West Coast coast into the siding in Matfield Green to meet two Eastbounds on the single track portion of the BNSF Transcon.