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

Hooping it up! Crews would order meals at The IL-MO Beanery in Scott City and pick them up on the fly: one for the locomotive crew, one for the caboose.

A quartet of GM&O GP units riding on former Alco FA trucks, has cleared Rock Creek Junction and climbs out of the Missouri River Valley.

UP #8444 departs after a service stop in Warrensburg, MO.

Amtrak train #359, The St. Louis Mule, included a dome car and coach connecting to The City of New Orleans at Centralia, IL to provide through service to New Orleans, LA.

An ICG eastbound detours over the former Wabash in western Missouri.

The Mexico, MO MFA elevator is switched by a unit built as Long Island #420.

Led by KCS Veterans Unit #4006 and EMDX #7205, MVNKC head north.

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

Having arrived from Denver, CO the previous day, the Rio Grande Zephyr, its trip truncated by the mudslide at Thistle, UT, waits for its departure time.

The Kyle Railroad has replaced the Cadillac & Lake City as the operator of the former Rock Island across Kansas, bringing former SP&S #320 for motive power.

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.