A quite Sunday afternoon at Topeka finds BNSF 2940 switching the south end of the small yard here.

MKT AS16M 126 at Parsons KS October 1968. Built as MKT 1571 in September 1950 and rebuilt by EMD in November 1958. The MKT sold these EMD/Baldwin hybrids in 1972 and power short CNW picked these u... (more)

BNSF 2940 and others lay over in the Topeka yard following a day full of rain. More rain is on the way tonight, but I was happy to get out and get some shots in between the storms. For the ros... (more)

Well, I had been hearing all day about the UP 1982 leading the IG4SI, a stack train headed towards Santa Teresa, NM, and by the end of the day, I was able to track it down. Here, the train is s... (more)

BNSF Railway coal empties, operating from Joliette, Georgia, to the Buckskin Mine in Wyoming with 5997, 9831, 9559 and 9202 for power, waits for a clear signal at CP 30th Street in Kansas City - r... (more)

After picking up an order from the Local Pig in KC's City Market, I ran out to Zarah and shot the Z-ALTWSP9-30, running into town with a quartet of FRESH GE ES44C4's on the point. These are the c... (more)

UP train RAMNLNQ-20 rolls through Rosedale with the Kansas City skyline in the background.

BNSF 1561, an SD38-2 (very rare on BNSF's roster) that still wears BN Cascade green, shoves its last few cars over the hump at Argentine Yard. From what I've seen online, 1561 should be one of two... (more)

The UP 1943 'The Spirit' arrives at the North end of the Wichita yard where it will make a set out and pick up before continuing its journey south towards Forth Worth.

The UP 1943 'The Spirit' takes the turn down the Golden State Route on the Topeka Subdivision leading the North Platte to Forth Worth manifest.

The "Spirit of the Union Pacific" has escaped its normal business train duty as it leads a long North Platte to Fort Worth manifest down the "OKT".

Wednesday afternoon, I went out for a drive, and one of my first actual chases along the Hiawatha Sub. Here's the UP 1943 on the point of loaded Rail train WWGPUR-14, running west out of Hiawatha ... (more)

Westbound Houston, TX, to South St. Paul manifest rolls past this 1880's old ex-ATSF depot in Atchison. This is the UP Falls City Sub that runs north from KC towards Omaha. The old depot is now a ... (more)

WATCO sudsidiary South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad painted up one of their WAMX units in this red yellow scheme a couple of years ago to honor Pittsburg State University colors. The school is loc... (more)

On a sunny Spring 1948 day in Kansas, R. G. Janzen photographed a typical scene in Norton, Kansas. A Rock Island R-67b class Northern was captured as it passed eastward through town. Rock Island... (more)