The Independence Limited passes the International Free Trade Zone dug into the Missouri River Bluffs.

More orange and black abounds in the joint KCS/SOO Knoche Yard in Kansas City, MO on June 28, 1986 as Rio Grande Tunnel Motor no. 5345 and GP40-2 3128 line up with SOO SD40-2 758. A KCS switcher p... (more)

Orange and black abounds in the joint KCS/SOO Knoche Yard in Kansas City, MO on June 28, 1986 as Rio Grande Tunnel Motor no. 5356 lines up with a trio of MILW GP40s now under Soo Line ownership. T... (more)

Perhaps some of Milwaukee Road's most modern power, a pair of Milwaukee Motor Transport tractors are ready to handle TOFC pickups and deliveries at Kansas City, MO. They are at the Soo Line (X-MIL... (more)

A BNSF Dash 9 and ES44C4 lead an oil train as it snakes its way through the Kansas City West Bottoms over Kansas City Terminal Railway trackage.

New Passing the Old. Big Boy on Display at Union Station. People from Far and Wide came to see Big Boy 4014 at Union Station.

A Southbound UP Manifest passes through Leeds.

Awaiting renumbering and repainting, a GM&O Redbird waits for its next assignment.

Eastbound transfer at Lydia Avenue.

Westbound manifest at Lydia Avenue.

DRGW units were relatively new to Kansas City having attained entry using the former MoPac line from Pueblo, CO.

Firsco Baldwin no. 234, a VO-1000, four stack version, rolls a load of Dodge Rams and some tank cars past a tower labeled "Old Union Depot Interlocking" in Kansas City, MO in March 1972.... (more)

A southbound KCS manifest is nearing the end of its climb out of the Missouri River Valley onto Blue Ridge.

What used to be the hump yard at UP's now-shuttered Neff Yard in Kansas City, MO is now packed to the gills with units that are now considered to be surplus. Shutting down humps and storing locom... (more)