A member of MKT's last batch of new GP38-2s - delivered in 1976 - leads the St Louis train out of Parsons. Just a little way ahead the train will peel off to the northeast, leaving the KC main behind as it heads for Missouri.
Coal and steel don't go bad. This album features long, slow, heavy freight trains; drag freights, slop freights, dead freights, etc. Trains with lots of power, and lots of different cargo slogging along behind.