Lengthy Monday morning transfer NS Train DK02 comes off the AS&B Bridge and into KCS Knoche Yard behind a pair of Ex-Southern high hood GP38-2's. Sometimes this move, which originates just across... (more)

The Denver & Rio Grande Western Heritage Locomotive leads UP Train ITAME3 04 across the KCT High Line at State Line Jct. en route to Memphis, TN from Tacoma, WA. That was my first time shooting t... (more)

The Haywire's brand new safety training tank car sits at KCS Knoche Yard.

Rolling Stock: KCS 972

3-1-15
Kansas City, MO

Still clawing away at Merriam Hill on the BNSF Ft. Scott Sub., the engineer on UP Train AAMEW 07 has his only running steed pulling about 1,200 amps and the sanders are on, as the conductor tries ... (more)

The switch heaters are working nicely at the Claycomo Spur turnout off the NS Kansas City District-BNSF Brookfield Sub.

Yep, it's that time of year again, folks.

2-20-15
Birmingha... (more)

An indescribably stunning ALCO C424 and T6 combo teams up on the A&M Springdale Switcher, and the hogger cleans them out for us while dragging out a cut of cars to kick. THIS is railroading, kids... (more)

"ALCO": a simple acronym that rolls off the tongue. The same one that will make grown men drive hundreds of miles only to take in the sights, sounds, and even smells that exit th... (more)

BNSF Train E NMANAM0 53B, a New Madrid, MO empty rolls up the BNSF Thayer North Sub. in a driving snow storm. I remember thinking then that I would be surprised if I didn't have to wait on this t... (more)

At the start of a snow storm, UP Train LSI55 27 begins its short day of switching the yard. Typically this is a short job on Saturday and doesn't leave town. With the snow and cold temperatures,... (more)

Just starting its trip for St. Joseph, UP Train MKCSJ 25 is on UP KC Metro Sub. Main Track 4 at Shelley Avenue, with the rear end still coming out of UP Neff Yard.

Locomotives: UP 2212, UP 2... (more)

KAW Train 410 passes a former CB&Q Searhlight Signal at Birmingham as it leaves the NS Kansas City District-BNSF Brookfield Sub., headed for the KAW Kearney Industrial Spur.

Locomotive: WAMX... (more)

The Iowa Interstate Railroad's second Rock Island inspired locomotive sits outside the facility that painted it, Mid-America Car, as one of their plant switchers goes about its business. I have t... (more)

The usual BNSF provided power leads NS Train D70 down out of The Gooseneck at Old Union Depot Interlocking, bound for BNSF Argentine Yard, from NS Voltz Yard, near Birmingham, MO. This local trav... (more)

UP Train YKS97 12 passes through the KC West Bottoms with KCS Power en route from KCS Knoche Yard, to UP Neff Yard, via the Elevator Lead and the KCT North-South Corridor.

Locomotives: KCS 2... (more)

The foreman on BNSF Train Y KCM1911 13I glances at his switch list as the recently relettered GN yard goats drag out a cut of cars to be kicked out. These SW1500's are former Frisco units, workin... (more)