Both old and newer sit in the storage lines at Topeka Ks.

BNSF 166 is near the BNSF Shops waiting for a possible new coat of paint with other former Santa Fe power. Note the unit behind in primer paint.

Santa Fe FM H16-44 roadswitchers Nos. 3013, 3005 and 3012 layover at Topeka between runs in September 1968. Photo by Ed Spitzer, part of my slide collection.

After putting together its tool cars, UP 3985 is ready to depart the fairgrounds where it has been on display for Topeka Railroad Days.

UP 3095, an apparently fresh SD70ACe-T4 posed for a few minutes just east of Kansas Ave. in North Topeka on the point of the MTPHN. This train had been put together in the Topeka yard, shoved eas... (more)

Fresh off of BNSF CEO Carl Ice's "Farewell" trip to Amarillo (O-AMATOP), TX, the recently-repainted 6078 spends the night outside of the Business Car Shops in Topeka, KS. The 6078 is th... (more)

UP 4404, a fresh-looking SD70M leads a nine car business train westbound past Topeka’s Calhoun Bluffs on the Kansas Sub. At SJ Jct. in Topeka, the train would turn onto the ex-RI towards Heringt... (more)

I ran up to the UP in Topeka today and shot this neat consist pulling out of the yard, and onto the main. EMDX Tier 4 SD70ACe-T4s 7239 and 7219, along with the KCS 5022 led a KCS Bean Train (GLTP... (more)

A quite Sunday afternoon at Topeka finds BNSF 2940 switching the south end of the small yard here.

BNSF 2940 and others lay over in the Topeka yard following a day full of rain. More rain is on the way tonight, but I was happy to get out and get some shots in between the storms. For the ros... (more)

Well, I had been hearing all day about the UP 1982 leading the IG4SI, a stack train headed towards Santa Teresa, NM, and by the end of the day, I was able to track it down. Here, the train is s... (more)

The UP 1943 'The Spirit' takes the turn down the Golden State Route on the Topeka Subdivision leading the North Platte to Forth Worth manifest.

Topeka's East Field has been a holding area for stored engines for quite some time, and when I recently noticed that Santa Fe-painted B40-8 no. 584 was on the end of one of the tracks, I had to ge... (more)

Northeast Kansas received a fairly decent snowfall on 12/15/2019, but the railroad trudges onward (I, however, managed to get a snow day out of the deal for Monday!). Regardless, just after Amt... (more)

This afternoon, BNSF's two new "Snow Coaches" left Topeka for the first time on a shakedown run behind the BNSF 4477. These are now the BNSF 70 and 71, and each one of the ex-Santa Fe H... (more)