A colorful consist leads a Des Moines, IA to Herington, KS manifest west alongside the Kansas River on the former Cotton Rock main in eastern Kansas.

Over 30 inches of snow blanketed parts of western Kansas in late December 2007. When winds combine with a snowstorm, cuts on a great plains railroad soon become full of the white stuff. Soon after... (more)

A late running Armourdale Yard to Mira Loma auto train crosses over Chisholm Trail Road at the east switch of Waldeck siding.

With the Santa Fe Trail just a few hundred feet away to the south this westbound intermodal train passes over the appropriately named Chisholm Trail Road at the east end of the 9,570 foot long sid... (more)

A pair of EMDs lead a Gibson Yard to Mira Loma auto train west out of Herington, 173 miles from the original Rock Island line segment town of St. Joseph, Missouri.

A westbound vehicle train at West Holliday.

The Southwest Chief is running late as it nears Argentine, KS, for refueling. The next regular station stop is close by at Union Station in Kansas City, MO

UP 5753 East approaches the Smoky Hill River crossing with a unit grain train north of Enterprise, KS on the BNSF Strong City Subdivision.

UP 5753 East enters Navarre, KS with a unit train of northern Kansas grain.

BNSF 2789 and BNSF 1455 shove BNSF 5522 through Argentine Yard.

Southern Pacific EMD MP15AC 2731, (numbered 2702-2759)

Blasting off from a meet UP 1995 and a Ferromex SD70ACe head a grain train west for California.

Four 6000-series SD40-2s - purchased with unit-train coal service in mind - barrel through the plains with 100 cars of coal received from the D&RGW at Pueblo. No tracks remain at this location.

A BNSF QKCKSAG run-through RoadRailer from Ft. Wayne, IN, on the NS (symbol 267) meets an eastbound grain train at Gardner, KS. The classic Santa Fe signal bridges in this photo are now gone, as i... (more)

As a couple of westbound BNSF freights wait for a light to get into Argentine Yard, light power led by a GP30 comes around the corner at CP 35 and heads for the facility. A light rain is falling, ... (more)