A westbound BNSF train crests the hill at Wyaconda. The area around Wyaconda is very hilly and I'm sure provides some challenges for the crews.

A westbound stack train approaches Wyaconda on the Transcon. With a frigid 25 mph wind, it was impossible to hear this train coming around the bend.

A windy and cold day on the Marceline Sub just west of Wyaconda. If these are coal cars, it will be the first time I ever saw covers over the loads.

This stack train is headed east on the Marceline Sub east of Wyaconda, Missouri.

From a bridge west of Wyaconda, an east bound stack train is cresting a hill on the BNSF Marceline Sub.

This east bound train on the Marceline Sub is passing through a work zone making plenty of noise. What you can't see in the photo from this bridge shot is the line of MOW vehicles on the other tr... (more)

A westbound stack train coming down the stairsteps west of Wyaconda on the BNSF Marceline Sub.

A UP auto rack looks like a caterpillar slinking down the stair-stepped track west of Wyaconda on the BNSF Marceline Sub.

Peering off a bridge as a high priority stack train flies east near Wyaconda. The shadows of the containers look like a picket fence behind the train. That's the old Wyaconda water tower in the... (more)

The number boards on all these locomotives are lined up as it passes under the bridge I'm standing on. This is on the BNSF southern Transcon in northern Missouri.

The former Santa Fe mainline across Missouri is certainly not the same as it was during the heyday of the Superfleet in the mid-90's, but it's still a thrilling experience to stand mere feet above... (more)

A hot Z train behind a fairly new ES44C4 accelerates after cresting the hill in the distance at Wyaconda.

One of BNSF's monster stack trains snakes its way down the undulating track west of Wyaconda with two GE's up front and two more pushing on the rear of the train. Nearly all of the containers are... (more)

The uniformity of an empty grain train gleams in the morning sunlight. This empty is east of Wyaconda rolling east towards Galesburg and points north.

Rolling down hill.