A former Phase 2 GP35, now a GP39-3R leads NS Train D70 at Harlem on the NS Kansas City District-BNSF Brookfield Sub. This train is an autorack transfer from NS Voltz Yard to BNSF Argentine Yard,... (more)

The SD70M leading UP Train ZG4TU 04 blasts by the caboose on UP Train LMW32 04, a CA-11 class now used as a shoving platform on the Bonner Local.

Locomotives: UP 4990

Rolling Stock: UP... (more)

BNSF Argentine Yard to KCS Knoche Yard transfer, BNSF Train T KCS1 04R, also referred to as the "Santa Fe 112 Job". Here it heads up KCT North-South Corridor on Track 79 at Old Union De... (more)

19th Street Yard Job, BNSF Train Y KCM1911 04I, drags through 12th Street as it arrives at its namesake yard behind a pair of recently relettered SW1500's. That's right, these are both GN units n... (more)

A pair of SD40-2s bring UP Train YFX82 04 through Troost on the UP KC Metro Sub. Main Track 1. This is the UP Quindaro Yard to UP Neff Yard transfer, and has again drawn this former Mo-Pac SD40-2... (more)

After pulling 3 cars at KCT 12th Street Yard, the SW1200 and its short KCT Train 217 wait to enter BN 1 and proceed back to Mill Street.

The switcher turns 58 this month, built in February 1... (more)

A pair of clean, new, but frozen SD70AH's bring UP Train ARLNSR 31 through St. Louis Avenue on the UP KC Metro Sub. before climbing up The Gooseneck, bound for NS Avondale Yard in North Kansas Cit... (more)

KCT Train 217 is just going about its duties as the power for KCT 310 and 311 sits in the house between jobs. At the time the GP39-2's just had their logos applied to the nose by Midwest Locomoti... (more)

Even though this unit spent 30 years under SOO and CP ownership, they never once thought to repaint it. Today, it is seen resting inside Mid-America Car in Kansas City.

Locomotive: SOO 1544... (more)

Bound for Atchison, KS, UP Train MKCAT 24 crosses the Kaw River at the aptly named Kaw Point, which is the confluence of this channel into the Missouri River. The train is on the UP KC Metro Sub.... (more)

Banana 3855 is working KCT Train 217, pulling 4 empty plastic pellet hoppers from the former GM&O 12th Street Yard, which is now used for transloading on the KCTL. The hoppers are taken to Mill S... (more)

With the exception of the cool blue SD90 on the rear, BNSF Train M KCKGAL3 24A is sporting an otherwise palindrome consist of CSXT and CN units moving their train east on the NS Kansas City Distri... (more)

A trio of SD60 variants take UP Train MKCAT 24 through Troost on the UP KC Metro Sub. bound for Atchison, KS.

Locomotives: UP 2414, UP 2222, UP 2316

1-24-15
Kansas City, MO

This beauty started life 50 years ago this month, January 1965, as GM&O 631 looking a lot better than she does now, but in the same paint scheme. Builder number 29752, frame number 7764-7. She s... (more)

This veteran started out in July 1970 as C&O 7521, builder number 36750, frame number 7276-15. On this day it was the trailing unit on what will become BNSF Train U KCKHKM0 01T, seen here at KCT ... (more)