BNSF 1759 was added to the head end of Amtrak's Southwest Chief due to locomotive issues out west. The train is running several hours late as it arrives in La Plata amid October fall colors. It wa... (more)

BNSF 2288 leads a colorful consist south a Mitchell, SD-bound local on a great Sunday afternoon.

A 2x2 consist of CN power lead a coal train that was sold to the Empire Plant near Pittsburg, Kansas. The train came off the CN at East St Louis and took the Gateway west across Missouri before tu... (more)

Watco's KCT 217 job is seen switching a scrap metal customer outside of Mill St Yard in Kansas City, KS.

A pair of DME 40's are on the point of CP's 570 heading east through the small town of Wessington, about 30 miles from Huron, SD, where the train will change crews. DME 6094 is unique in sporting ... (more)

CREX 1211 is one of the 8 CITIRAIL GEVO's that arrived in Aberdeen on an engine move from Kansas City. Not long after this shot, 5 of the 8 were already on their way to move a train out of town.

While the I&M has been blocked out on this chop-nose SD9, there is no other visible reporting marks on this elevator switcher. This former Rail Link SD9 is assigned to the South Dakota Wheat Growe... (more)

Amtrak's Phase IV heritage engine is on the point of the eastbound Southwest Chief making its station stop in the quiet little town of La Plata.

After a day of cold wind and rain the sun finally got a chance to break out under the back side of the days cloud cover to light the sky for a great sunset. Lit up by this sunset is a pair of a BN... (more)

A freshly repainted 5300-series GEVO deadheads an inspection car through Santa Fe Jct. The train is coming off the Kaw River Bridge and swinging north up the Terminal toward the West Bottoms.

Spring is in the air in KC as a pair of fairly-new BNSF ACe's are on the point of a GRDX loaded coal train moving south through BN Crossing. The train will leave BNSF rails at Paola, KS, and conti... (more)

Iowa Interstate GEVO 500, along with a pair of GP 38-2's, lead a Council Bluffs-bound freight through the heart oof Davenport on this former Rock Island main line.

CSXT 710, and a UP C40-8, are on the point of an auto rack train that has pulled into Jeff City yard for a crew change at the former Missouri Pacific station.

NS's Southern Heritage engine speeds up the BNSF Transcon toward Argentine at CP-Holliday.

A TFM MAC and a KCS Belle MAC lead a transfer across the UP Metro Sub and toward the Incline where the train will turn south and head for BNSF's Argentine Yard.