The remnants from an early February snow storm slowly melt away as an eastbound mobile pipeline head for another load of Bakken crude.
The setting sun is just barely above the horizon as this westbound Kansas City, KS to Amarillo, TX manifest rolls west between Wellsville and Ottawa.
The rear end of the E LRTBTM0 03A clears just in time for this westbound stack to roll west into Lebo.
An empty grain train eases through NR Junction on the east side of Emporia where the line through Topeka and Lawrence branches off of the Emporia Sub.
Another orange GE leads an export grain train west a few miles east of Neosho Rapids, KS in a 1 by 2 configuration. NS 8051 and BNSF 9614 are on the rear as distributed power.
To the untrained eye this appears to be an ordinary Z or Q train when in fact it is actually running under a baretable symbol. A solid string of JB Hunt containers, with a few trailers thrown in o... (more)
It's the slow time of the year when numerous sets of intermodal equipment are sent to temporary storage awaiting the next rush of Chinese made goods.
An all EMD head end consist guides a 150 car Red Rock, OK load over the hump at Wellsville.
A westbound stack train with BNSF 4813 leading holds on Main 1 at Saffordville while a westbound Z train runs around them. The section of three main tracks just west of Emporia becomes single trac... (more)
The drab, boringness of late Fall has set in as this westbound intermodal snakes through the Flint Hills.
Right after sunrise an empty grain train nears the quiet town of Strong City where it will meet a westbound manifest.
A filthy Dash 9 leads a Houston, TX bound Q train under the signal bridge guarding the west side of the crossovers at Ellinor in the late evening sun.
Dying sunflowers greet a Kansas City, KS to North Bay, CA Z train just west of the crossovers at Ellinor.
A unit Corn Syrup load for El Paso, TX rolls around the curve just west of the west siding switch at Bazar during great early evening light.
Another shooter heads west over the KS-177 highway bridge halfway between Matfield Green and Cassoday that has seen countless other shooters pass over it through the years.
