Somehow these new C36-7s have made it all the way to southeast Kansas without even getting any grime on the plows.

Most of my pictures have signals in them, as the structures and signals themselves were defining elements of a particular railroad's environment such as we'll never see again. BN 6707 is getting a... (more)

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)

The 2x2 Mac quad passing through Melvern.

A couple Executive SD70MACs take a coal load westbound through Neosho Rapids. There was another Exec and an H2 MAC on the rear making for an impressive lashup.

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)

Route of the Rockets Belleville was once a busy Junction between Rock Island mainlines from Kansas City, Omaha and Denver. Passenger trains and freight heading for the Rocky Mountains p... (more)

A southbound Kansas City Southern coal train, with run-through BNSF road power, pulls into Pittsburg, Kansas, where a set of KCS power will be added to the train to operate as a mid train DPU on t... (more)

A remote control hump job pulls a long string of cars out of the arrival tracks and down the lead for the hump at BNSF's Argentine Yard in Kansas City, Kansas. In the lead is BNSF 1561, an ex-BN S... (more)

On a pleasant September morning, I made the trek up to Aiken Switch to shoot the UP 1943, the "Spirit of the Union Pacific" leading the MNPKS towards Topeka and Kansas City. This is sho... (more)

One of two SD38-2's on the BNSF's roster, #1561 works one of the Argentine hump jobs as it slowly shoves back into the yard.

A rare all EMD consist lugs a westbound Kansas City, KS to Wellington, KS manifest, made up of mostly autoracks, through the crossovers at Lebo

A former MRL SD45 and former Chessie SD18 sit at the grain elevator in South Haven. The elevator no longer recieves rail shipments, so the siding is used for car storage.

A couple of unique standard cab units are westbound off the Charleston Siding on the BNSF LaJunta Subdivision on November 17, ahead of a 114-car 'LaJunta Local'. Operating as local train L-KAN013... (more)

Readying to depart Satanta for Dodge City, KS, the Cimarron Valley Railroad C40-8 4053 looks at home in the ATSF-inspired scheme. The crew is switching and weighing cars before departure for Dodg... (more)