With deadheading Metrolink cars up front, the Chief departs Kansas City with its sights set on Chicago.

BNSF 9297 wears BNSF's initial experimental "Heritage" orange and green paint scheme. It featured a solid 3" red pinstripe that separated the orange and Brunswick green along the right carbody... (more)

A fresh repaint leads a eastbound stack into Downtown Kc.

BNSF 9647 was delivered with the Santa Fe warbonnet and in BN Executive colors to celebrate the approval of the BNSF merger on July 20, 1995. The colors on the 9647 were not adopted by BNSF as a... (more)

Up 7137 takes a freight westbound meanwhile an eastbound coal load rolls through town.

Sometime in the late 1960s a couple of units in the original "Southern Belle" scheme share duties. KCS 25 was a "rebuild" of an E6A which had apparently been wrecked. As I un... (more)

Kansas City Southern Dash 9-44CW 4400's heritage is easy to discern, as it still wears the colors for BNSF Railway, from which GECX acquired it, and from whom the KCS leases it for "horsepowe... (more)

General Motors Electro-Motive Division built just seven SD45X diesels in 1970 – four demonstrators and three for Southern Pacific Railroad. EMDX 4201-4203 were built with SP's typical array of ... (more)

Bnsf 4329 Takes a rack train east over the KCT high bridge.

A BNSF ES44C4 brings up the rear as a DPU on westbound manifest freight Q NWHLAC6 30X as it makes its way through Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City, Missouri, crossing over a Union Pacific eastboun... (more)

UP on NS heading to UP NS 115 hanging the left at North Chicago Junction with a pair of UP GEs as they're making their way to Union Pacific's 18th Street Yard on the other side of the Kan... (more)

UP 7817 is shoving on the rear of a tank car train diverginig on to the BNSF Fort Scott Sub as a BNSF Stack Track climbs the Argentine Flyoer headed for Argentine Yard. UP has trackage rights... (more)

About an hour before thunderstorms would arrive on this hot 95-degree afternoon, BNSF 4678 passes by the Kansas City Union Depot with a string of grain cars.

BNSF 4598 west with an Ash Train heads west towards Argentine Yard while a coal train from Juliette, GA/NS comes off the Fort Scott heading towards Murray.

Although KCS's flag has fallen, I was able to get a nearly 'pure' image of the railroad (spoiled by one CP interloper hidden behind the fuel rack), with Kansas City in the background. This is, in ... (more)