This afternoon, Mid-America Car in KC released the Iowa Interstate #516 and placed it out on the setout track for the KCS. The paint on this is a nod to the Rock Island's red and yellow from the ... (more)

This afternoon, Mid-America Car in KC released the Iowa Interstate #516 and placed it out on the setout track for the KCS. The paint on this is a nod to the Rock Island's red and yellow from the ... (more)

The colorful nose of Kansas City Southern FP9 KCS 1 shines in the morning sun at Kansas City Union Station, Missouri, on the morning of October 26, 2013.

The dwarf signal tells us that we are alongside Kansas City Terminal Railway tracks at Union Station, where nameless Train 15, formerly the Kansas City Rocket, is just rolling in from Minneapolis-... (more)

Just days off the erecting floor at GE’sErie, Pennsylvania, plant, spotless U25B 230 with two older sisters leads a freight up the approach to the Harry S Truman Bridge at Birmingham Missouri. O... (more)

One of the several reactivated UP standard cab Dash 8's that has went through Mid America Car in Kansas City is ready to go and is waiting to be picked up by the KCS for interchange back to the Un... (more)

Just released from the shops, IAIS 515 and IAIS 514 sit awaiting pickup by the KCS for transfer to CP and delivery to IAIS. The 3rd GEVO in the order will be in a Rock Island scheme.

Here we see coal empties from the UP and BNSF sandwiching a KCT Mill Street Yard to KCS Knoche Yard Transfer at The Incline. The coal empties on BNSF Train E KCLBAM0 124A are climbing north up ... (more)

The power from CP Train 474-30 sits in the old roundhouse at KCS Knoche Yard. The leader is a rare for this area CP SD90MAC. I hadn't seen one of these since I was working into Chicago years ago... (more)

While messing around at a friend's place by Union Station I couldn't help but run over and shoot this thing just one more time. Can you blame me?

GP39-2 #3931 is again on the point of KCT Train 311, sitting at the west end of KCS Knoche Yard at the North Main-Track 901 Crossover at Olive Street, waiting on Run 24 to clear up, who just had t... (more)

Transfer freight from BNSF Argentine Yard to NS Avondale Yard, BNSF Train Y KCK2121 27T, rolls up KCT Track 81 at St. Louis Avenue in the KC West Bottoms before taking on the grade up The Goosenec... (more)

Dragging the Holiday Train cars out of KC Union Station Track 28, the active KCS F-Units pass displayed #34, which was once KCS 4, an additional A-Unit to the 1 and 2 which spent time running on t... (more)

That's a wrap! The 2014 edition of the KCS Holiday Express has seen its last evening here at Union Station, and KCS Train B-KCSH-21 is being assembled to take the train back south to Shreveport. ... (more)

Paused at Olive Street, the conductor on UP Train GLAHKS 17 is lining switches from the North Main to Track 901 as the grain load enters KCS Knoche Yard. When the train leaves town headed south i... (more)