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)

After picking up an order from the Local Pig in KC's City Market, I ran out to Zarah and shot the Z-ALTWSP9-30, running into town with a quartet of FRESH GE ES44C4's on the point. These are the c... (more)

Wednesday afternoon, I went out for a drive, and one of my first actual chases along the Hiawatha Sub. Here's the UP 1943 on the point of loaded Rail train WWGPUR-14, running west out of Hiawatha ... (more)

What used to be the hump yard at UP's now-shuttered Neff Yard in Kansas City, MO is now packed to the gills with units that are now considered to be surplus. Shutting down humps and storing locom... (more)

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)

Like so many others, I was out at Union Station Kansas City Inc. on Sunday night to watch the arrival of Union Pacific's Big Boy. After cutting its train in half, the 4014 backed onto one of Unio... (more)

Tuesday afternoon, I was able to get out for a little bit to catch the Big Boy rolling into Topeka on its jaunt west from KC. These photos were taken from MP 67 on the Kansas Sub, otherwise known ... (more)

While literally everyone else in the greater Kansas City region was chasing the northbound Big Boy through the Kansas with questionable light for a northbound, I moseyed my way towards the city fr... (more)

Oh, you're gonna put the red & silver one on the point of the O-train? OK. For all of the business trains that I've seen around Topeka over the years, this is the first one that I've ever se... (more)

Well, seemingly every other line in the Midwest is under water currently, and even though a tornado went right over the line a few days ago, BNSF's Topeka Sub is still going strong! This evenin... (more)

Thursday night, I made it out to Kansas City Union Station to shoot Amtrak no. 3 coming into town with an old Pepsi Can on the point. Here's the Southwest Chief, as it arrived in KC with the #5... (more)

While waiting on the last CNW-painted AC44 to show up, this eastbound UP manifest showed up, and between the farmer in his field and the sunset, I figured that it was worth a few pixels. This is ... (more)