A drop table operator checks the progress of a new axle being switched out on Union Pacific EMD SD70M No. 4831. The locomotive is having its fifth wheel set/motor assembly replaced at UP’s Kansa... (more)

A pair of BNSF Railway locals meet on the Norfolk Southern’s Kansas City District (of the Illinois Division), which connects to the BNSF Brookfield Sub just to the left of here … BNSF GP39E 29... (more)

BNSF 1102 in the Heritage 1 scheme is seen leading a freight off the Ft Scott sub at BN Xing and will be ending up in Murray Yard shortly.

Southbound unit coal. Photo by Gary W. Zeitler. From my collection.

Photo by Gary W Zeitler, from my collection.

KCS’s office car train gets a wash in preparation for the run east the following day.

Kansas City Southern MP15DC Nos. 4363 and 4365 pull two boxcars by the power plant approaching Oak Street on KCS’s River Quay Spur at Kansas City, Missouri, on September 16, 1990. KCS bought fou... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD SW1500 No. 59 rolls through West Bottoms in Kansas City, Missouri, on the morning of September 16, 1990. Both SW1000 and SW1500 switchers have higher frames/walkways and ha... (more)

Rolling along the Missouri River, an eastbound Southern Pacific transfer freight exits the West Bottoms area of Kansas City, Missouri, on the morning of September 16, 1990.

As BNSF Railway High Priority Merchandise train H-BARPAS7-18 passes through Kansas City on a long detour as it heads from Barstow CA to Pasco WA, we see Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe SD45-2 5704 on K... (more)

Sitting just outside the Mid America Car shop complex is freshly overhauled and painted BNSF Railway GP60 197 (ex-BNSF 8739; née-ATSF 4039), built by EMD in August 1989. (Kansas City, Missouri â... (more)

Santa Fe SD45-2 5704, recently restored to its Bicentennial glory, sits at Kansas City's Union Station, where throngs of railfans have gathered to take night photos of this fifth of Santa Fe's fiv... (more)

BNSF l8103 leads an intermodal with Amazon containers through Kansas City on a bright sunny morning

One of the Kaw River Railroad's former UP SD60M's passing Union Station.

Holding for a clear signal at Santa Fe Junction is BNSF Loaded Unit Coal train C-BKMDOL0-22, heading from Wyoming’s Buckskin Mine to Donie, Texas. A pair of ES44ACs BNSF 5882 and 6408, are on t... (more)