New safetran signals await to be cut in in front of the east-facing signal bridge at CP La Plata on BNSF Marceline Sub.
As an update, these signals have been cut over on 1.18.14.
The BNSF Transcon is about as mundane as it gets power wise in this increasingly standardized period in railroading. It's a great place to sit and watch 70+ trains scream by most days, but you wo... (more)
La Plata, MO, is a quiet rural town of 1,500 people that still hosts a stop for Amtrak's Southwest Chief. The towns proximity to the college towns of Kirksville and Columbia draw a considerable nu... (more)
In the last minutes of the sunset, a westbound Gibson Yard, IL, to Mira Loma, CA, auto rack train screams west on the Marceline. UP at times will bring EMD power to the Transcon Main which is nice... (more)