Former Patriot Rail 1902 is being overhauled at the Railway Service Contractors facility in Kansas City. Photo taken with permission wearing all required safety gear.

Not only is the diesel shops in the BNSF Argentine yard full of BNSF locomotives, there is also visitors from Ferromex, Norfolk Southern, CEFX and a former MetroLink passenger engine with LETX mar... (more)

A BN caboose is in the consist on this switching job at Argentine Yard.

Kansas City Landscape | Alongside the Kansas River, a yard transfer train from Norfolk Southern's Avondale Yard approaches the BNSF's Argentine Yard in Kansas City, KS on a bright and warm ... (more)

The recent BNSF merger brings a rainbow of power to a move to balance power from the former BN Murray Yard in Missouri to the former ATSF Argentine Yard in Kansas.

KANSAS CITY Sept 29 1980 — Precision National Corp. NW2 PNCX 1012 (c/n 6686) is tied down at Armourdale Yard. EMD delivered the unit in January 1949 as Baltimore & Ohio 563. It was renumbered to... (more)

Four motors still rule the hot intermodal trains on the Transcon. A westbound approaches a service and crew change point at Argentine Yard.

KANSAS CITY KS Sept 29 1979 – With complete shutdown only months away Rock Island GP7 4540 sits at the Armourdale Yard sanding facility. According to www.utahrails.net the unit started life as C... (more)

An SD60M and SD40-2 relegated to remote control yard service are hard at work shoving a cut of cars over the hump at BNSF's Argentine Yard. Located just west of Kansas City, Kansas this massive ya... (more)

BNSF Railway train S-LHALPC2-23W (Intermodal Stacks, Los Angeles Harbor Pier 400 CA to Logistic Park Chicago IL) has completed its run on the Railway’s La Junta Sub and is crossing over onto the... (more)

Katy EMD SW9 Nos. 21 and 19 take a breather at Glen Park Yard in Kansas City, Kansas, on a slushy and cold December 8, 1985. The large grain elevator lining the south end of the yard between South... (more)

AM At Armourdale | Forty minutes past sunrise on a windy Saturday, April 6, 2024, a westbound manifest train approaches Union Pacific's 18th Street Yard in Kansas City, KS. Having just cros... (more)

A pair of BNSF SD40-2s – 1773 (formerly BNSF 6958, originally ATSF 5213 … was it obvious?) and 1646 (ex-BNSF 6765, née-ATSF 5106) – idle in the Emporia Yard, awaiting their next call to dut... (more)

Heading east on the BNSF Railway's Emporia Sub is BNSF Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-ALTWSP7-23A. This spot, the "ghost town" of Ellinor, just east of Strong City, Kansas, is the ... (more)

Crude oil empties from St. James, La., destined for Wash, Utah, make their way out of Manhattan on March 18, 2024 led by Union Pacific's "Spirit" commemorative locomotive which honors the United S... (more)