Looking like a diesel with a jawbone or tooth ache, in its final years UP Alco PA 605 wore a cast pilot from a 4-8-4. There is probably a story what happened to its original pilot, but it didn’... (more)
Red Yellow & Black...Iowa Interstate's new Rock Island-inspired GEVO is fresh out of Mid America and nosed into one of KCS's Belle ACe's, KCS 4176.
A fresh KCS GEVO is paired up nose-to-nose with a GATX leaser geep outside Mid America in Kansas City on Christmas Day
NS D70, a transfer from NS's Voltz yard to BNSF's Argentine Yard is seen rolling through the West Bottoms in Kansas City Kansas with an ex BN GP39E in the lead.
Just moments before the setting sun dropped behind the bluff, Amtrak rounds the first leg of a wye move to head back to town while a BNSF stack train and a UP manifest await more favorable signals... (more)
Led by a pair of KCS units YKC106 snakes its way through the West Bottoms of Kansas City Missouri. The train is seen leaning into the curve next to the Standard Seed Co. building.
NS D70, a transfer from Voltz Yard to BNSF's Argentine Yard, threads its way through some of the many searchlight signals still guarding the rails around Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City, MO. Powe... (more)
A pair of former BN Locomotives BNSF 2904, (Built as CB&Q 994 GP35 in August of 1964 it was rebuilt into a GP39E later in its life.) and BNSF 3159 (an Extended 5 Person Cab GP50 was built by the B... (more)
Just moments after being released from Mid America Car, IAIS 516 sits hooked to a KCS SD70ACe in the southern belle scheme. Both units wear very similar colors as they soak up the cold February su... (more)
Sitting alone, in the middle of a mid February snow storm. IAIS 516 in a Rock Island tribute scheme sits on the KCS ready track at Mid America Car.
SP 266 brings up the rear of UP train GSWAWW 12 as the train rolls east past Kansas City Union Station. SP 266 is one of, to my knowledge at least, 13 Remaining Unpatched SP Locomotives (11 AC4400... (more)
A pair of BNSF SW1500's shove north of 25th St. heading for the former Frisco 19th Street Yard in Kansas City's West Bottoms.
One of the 4 CP MP15DC's sits outside Mid America Locomotive in Kansas City, MO
A nose-to-nose comparison of two classic schemes on modern widecab locomotives-- one executed a little better than the other.
Just released from Mid America Car IAIS' newly painted unit sits on the ready track waiting for KCS to pick it up.
