Crispy... BNSF 7889 is set out at La Plata, MO, after catching fire not far from town.

BNSF 100 entered MAC as a warbonnet and has exited in black and orange. The paint scheme is a sort of H1-H3 hybrid. Mimicking the colors and logo of the H3, but with lines and styling similar to H... (more)

No Meet No Pass and for good reason... Four Boeing planes are on the point of a manifest climbing up the gooseneck, heading across the Hannibal Bridge into North Kansas City. The tight corn... (more)

The shell of a Milwaukee Road Hiawatha tail car grows older in the weeds at a small railroad park in western Minnesota.

A single dirty KCS ACe is on the point of the QKCNL 10 heading south out of Blue Valley Siding and ducking an abandoned RocK Island bridge. The bridge is on the far-west end of the KC-STL line tha... (more)

Oops... A BNSF Big Stone Power empty coal train looks to have been sideswiped by some loaded grain cars from the Aberdeen Wheat Growers' Plant on the west end of town.

A Sign of a True Railfan... Crouched on a bridge in a custom railroad themed shirt. Fellow RP contributor, Zach Pumphery, grabs a shot of another repainted BNSF SD60M awaiting assignment at... (more)

A KCS southbound coal train heading for Texas has finally got the light out of Blue Valley Siding and has began its climb for the next meet at Grandview. The train is about to pass under the aband... (more)

Louisville and Indiana Railroads 2002 is the second Geep to exit the Mid-America Car Shops in a PRR heritage paint scheme. EMDX 748 is seen in the MAC shops awaiting its transformation into a GATX... (more)

IAIS 513 in Rock Island Scheme just moved out of the shop.

BNSF 2740 and 3159 lead the "Kearney Turn" down a steep industrial lead back toward the Brookfield Sub mainline at Randolph, MO. This shot is just south of Worlds of Fun in the North Kansas City a... (more)

An ex-GM&O GP35 is seen sitting at UP's Neff Yard in Kansas City. The locomotive will be taken to a local motive power shop in south KC.

An odd couple... A fresh BNSF H3 Dash 9 and an ex-MARC E Unit sit outside Mid America Car in Kansas City.

Light Duty... The remains of ICE 213 sit hanging off the tail end of a stub end track near the locomotive facility in Huron, SD, while other ICE and CEFX units are seen casually awaiting as... (more)

Busy times at Union Depot Interlocking BNSF 2830 is on the point of NS transfer job D70 that brings autoracks from Voltz to Argentine. To the right a taconite train is also heading toward A... (more)