Tom Bowers photo.

Headed southbound toward Yard Center on the former C&EI, a MoPac SD40-2 leads a UP Geep and former Conrail lessor. Just behind the Grand Trunk boxcar are several flats loaded with truck frames. ... (more)

Geeps pull a string of covered hoppers across scales for weighing.

Geep pulls a string of covered hoppers across scales for weighing. Scale house is building at right.

A trio of MOP SD40-2's, the 3240, 3311 and 3250 along with SD40 3000 third out in the consist pass by Tower 55.

A flock of dusty GP15s wait out a hazy Sunday afternoon lull in activity at the former Missouri-Illinois engine house.

The imposing Missouri state capitol looming in the distance provides an interesting backdrop for just another day of switching in MP's (actually UP's by this date) small yard.

The UP-MP merger hasn't yet happened, but MP 4842 leads UP's Mon-Sat McPherson turn down the UP branch past a couple of RailGons at the scrapyard. The actual MP crosses UP at a right angle a few ... (more)

Rolled just less than 5 miles from here, a relic from the past in the form of a CF&I tie plate still does its job of holding rail in place even though this rail hasn’t seen a wheel pass over it ... (more)

Sad Sight As evident by the degrading state of these automatic grade crossing signals, it doesn’t look like any trains will be polishing the rails of the former MoPac mainline into Colora... (more)

I wonder how many tons of freight this car has carried over the years.

A Missouri Pacific Weed Sprayer Car, built in Dec. 1959, awaits its next call to serve parked in Union Pacific's Shoshone, Idaho yard. Check out the mixed red and green connectors atop the domes.

The previous train - a D&RGW freight headed for Pueblo on trackage rights - clipped a car at the crossing. This MP train had to wait while police reports were filled-out and the car was removed f... (more)

Remnants of the Missouri Pacific still ride the rails.