The Kansas City Skyline looms in the distance as former TP&W 2011 gets drizzled on at BNSF 10th Street Yard. This unit started life for the "Tip-Up" in October 1978, and ran around as ATSF 2380 fo... (more)

Former TP&W 2011 gets drizzled on at BNSF 10th Street Yard. This unit started life for the "Tip Up" in October 1978, and ran around as ATSF 2380 for a decade and a half.

Waiting for Ustick to take you can be an all night affair sometimes. BNSF Train M LAWTUL4 09A waits at 10th Street for the dispatcher to call them down to the light and shoot them south towards t... (more)

The CP Coburg Yard Job is tied down on the tail track next to UP Neff Yard on a drizzly damp night with a pair of GP38-2s for power, one SOO, and the leader a repainted SOO.

The BNSF 19th Street Switcher can draw some interesting power at times, and today was no different. I'll take a GP30/SW1500 combo pretty much any day of the week.

Tied down on the left is UP Train GLAHKS 10, a grain train from Atchison, KS to the KCS here at KC, and switching State Line Yard is UP Train YFX52R 10 with a pair of GP15-1's.

This engine was being used as the Orient Shops switcher when I was here. Still wearing its striking red and silver paint job applied by Midwest Locomotive, it is former MWLX 2017, Ex-ATSF 2017, N... (more)

A pair of freshly repainted GP38-3s sit at K&O Orient Yard near the shop. These were in Bangor and Aroostook Paint until recently.

The KCS Knoche to BNSF Argentine Transfer ducks off the UP KC Metro Sub. onto the UP Elevator Lead, grazing Armourdale and Armstrong Yard on its way towards KCT Trackage to get back across the Kan... (more)

Headed down the UP KC Metro Sub. in the West Bottoms, this pair of SD40-2s have the KCS Knoche to BNSF Argentine transfer in tow, rolling towards the UP Elevator Lead, where they will head south t... (more)

With an eclectic consist, NS Train D72 rolls a few autoracks out of NS Voltz Yard towards BNSF Argentine Yard on the NS Kansas City District seconds after my driver, Nick Smith, hit a trench in th... (more)

With the power in the house for the night, it's time to head home, get some warm socks on, and have a cold beer.

Going about its normal duties switching customers on the UP KC Metro Sub. Omaha Main is UP Train YFX82 18. The SD40N on the point looks as good as it ever did. Hopefully some of the worn looking... (more)

Coming up on Idalia on the UP Chester Sub. is UP Train MASSH 29 bound for a quick crew change at North Dexter before continuing towards its destination of Shreveport, LA.

After a quick crew change 9 miles ago, UP Train ZG4CI 19 blasts down the UP Kansas Sub. with a long string of stacks and trailers behind, bound for City of Industry, CA.