If you like old warehouses and other industrial (and repurposed) buildings? Head to Kansas City’s West Bottoms area, where Union Pacific SD70Ms 4996 and 5107, departing Armourdale Yard across t... (more)

Back in the day when a name would suffice. Photo by Gary W. Zeitler.

BNSF Dash 9-44CWs 4676 and 470 bring train Q-CHIPHX6-07 through downtown Kansas City (as if you couldn't tell from the iconic Western Auto sign). This Guaranteed Service Intermodal train is headi... (more)

A freshly repaired AC44 rests outside Mid-America Car under threatening skies.

A drop table operator checks the progress of a new axle being switched out on Union Pacific EMD SD70M No. 4831. The locomotive is having its fifth wheel set/motor assembly replaced at UP’s Kansa... (more)

A pair of BNSF Railway locals meet on the Norfolk Southern’s Kansas City District (of the Illinois Division), which connects to the BNSF Brookfield Sub just to the left of here … BNSF GP39E 29... (more)

BNSF 1102 in the Heritage 1 scheme is seen leading a freight off the Ft Scott sub at BN Xing and will be ending up in Murray Yard shortly.

Southbound unit coal. Photo by Gary W. Zeitler. From my collection.

Photo by Gary W Zeitler, from my collection.

KCS’s office car train gets a wash in preparation for the run east the following day.

Kansas City Southern MP15DC Nos. 4363 and 4365 pull two boxcars by the power plant approaching Oak Street on KCS’s River Quay Spur at Kansas City, Missouri, on September 16, 1990. KCS bought fou... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD SW1500 No. 59 rolls through West Bottoms in Kansas City, Missouri, on the morning of September 16, 1990. Both SW1000 and SW1500 switchers have higher frames/walkways and ha... (more)

Rolling along the Missouri River, an eastbound Southern Pacific transfer freight exits the West Bottoms area of Kansas City, Missouri, on the morning of September 16, 1990.

As BNSF Railway High Priority Merchandise train H-BARPAS7-18 passes through Kansas City on a long detour as it heads from Barstow CA to Pasco WA, we see Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe SD45-2 5704 on K... (more)

Sitting just outside the Mid America Car shop complex is freshly overhauled and painted BNSF Railway GP60 197 (ex-BNSF 8739; née-ATSF 4039), built by EMD in August 1989. (Kansas City, Missouri â... (more)