This Chicago, IL to Houston, TX Q train rolls west through Ellinor with an AC4400CW leading, a rarity here on the transcon.

A rare SD70ACe (for the transcon) leads a Gulf coast bound empty grain train through the west switch at Gladstone.

A factory fresh ES44C4 leads a short Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA Z train by a newly installed flange oiler just past the west siding switch at Gladstone.

Two GE's lead this Amarillo, TX (South Yard) to Kansas City, KS manifest east out of the setting sun and onward to their destination at BNSF's large Argentine Yard.

Two GE's lead a Chicago, IL to Los Angeles, CA Q train up through the scenic rolling hills of east central Kansas, more widely known as the "Flint Hills".

A former Santa Fe GP50 and GP60 lead the Emporia to Wellington, KS "Local 21" through Saffordville on their westward journey towards south central Kansas.

An empty grain train for Coolidge, KS with three Dash 9s in three different paint schemes heads south (timetable west) through Pauline, just south of Topeka, on a beautiful late winter morning in ... (more)

Winter Olympic unit 2002 leads two EMD sisters on a Tucson, AZ to Global 4, IL Z train east through the rolling countryside of eastern Kansas on the former Rock Island "Golden State Route".

A short Kansas City, KS to Alliance, TX manifest leaves the siding at Cassoday after a meet with an eastbound Z ALTWSP.

Westbound Z train slow rolls into the siding at Aikman for a meet with the eastbound Z ALTWSP.

Logistics Park Chicago to Los Angeles, CA stacks roll west out of Emporia in the late afternoon sun.

A fast running Willow Springs, IL to Stockton, CA Z train rolls by a rusty old storage silo near the township of Plymouth, a few miles west of Emporia.

A Kansas City, KS to Barstow, CA manifest rolls west past the MP121.1 detector and into Chase County as the train will hold at Ellinor for a westbound Z train to run around it.

Two thoroughbreds lead the Kansas City, KS to Saginaw, TX roadrailer by an old storage silo roughly halfway between the crossovers at Ellinor and Merrick.

The sun is slowly starting to peak out from behind the clouds as this westbound grain train rolls through the crossovers at Ellinor.