MOW service SD40-2 sits near the turntable at KCS Knoche Yard. This engine is remote controlled and is used on work trains. The marker lights on the snoot nose are an addition since the last tim... (more)

Hostlers bring a BC Rail cowl back into UP Armourdale Yard on the Runner and back down to 500 yard. The unit was used on UP Train AAMMQ 08.

Locomotive: BCOL 4614

5-8-15
Kansas Ci... (more)

Yard job NS Train DK22 07 works Midwest Shredding Service near Harlem Interlocking adjacent to NS Avondale Yard.

Locomotive: NS 5231

5-7-15
North Kansas City, MO

A PRLX SD60M trails on BNSF Train H KCKSPO1 07A at 12th Street after waiting for the dispatcher to call them on north up KCT Track 81. This train is a no meet or pass movement on the KCT due to t... (more)

An unpatched SP leader, patched SP trailing, and third yellow GE take UP Train UEAEPL 04 west on the KCT High Line towards UP Armourdale Yard. The loaded ethanol train off the Spine Line will hea... (more)

A trio of UP SD70M's scream out on the sunset with UP Train IGSDU1 27 moving towards Dupo, IL on the UP Herington Sub.

This is part of the former Rock Island "Golden State Route", ... (more)

The conductor on UP Train MHNTU 30 has lined his train into the hole for 3 eastbounds and is now lining the switch back to normal position for main track movement behind the rear end which has jus... (more)

An SD70ACe leads and SP 187 trails along with another GE on UP Train MHNTU 30 entering the siding at East Inman on the UP Herington Sub. Both ends of this siding are protected by signals installe... (more)

A former Rock Island US&S TP-5 signal is passed by UP Train GMMS6P 28 at MP 233.6 on the UP Herington Sub. This is part of the former Rock Island "Golden State Route", which was owned f... (more)

The Watco Business Train running with WSOR Equipment eases back into K&O Yaggy Yard after a round trip to Great Bend, KS and back to celebrate the opening of Bartlett Grain Company's new facility ... (more)

Yet another Santa Fe Depot is passed by the Watco Companies Business Train on its eastbound run back to the K&O Yaggy Yard near Hutchinson, after a run to the new Bartlett Grain Company elevator n... (more)

The Watco Companies Business Train passes another oil well along the rolling Kansas Landscape on the K&O Great Bend Sub.

Locomotive: WSOR 101

4-30-15
Raymond, KS

Two things in this photo typify a vast swath of profit generated by Watco online business: an oil well and a wheat field. The company and the railroad industry in general wouldn't be what it is t... (more)

The Watco Companies Business Train using Wisconsin & Southern equipment leaves the new 3 Million bushel facility which has just finished construction outside Great Bend, KS. The grain elevator is... (more)

The Watco Companies Business Train using WSOR equipment is headed by #101, their covered wagon EMD E9, is rolling under a Santa Fe steam locomotive coaling tower on the K&O Great Bend Sub. after w... (more)