A member of MKT's last batch of new GP38-2s - delivered in 1976 - leads the St Louis train out of Parsons. Just a little way ahead the train will peel off to the northeast, leaving the KC main be... (more)
Two Union Pacific southbound freights change crews at Parsons, Kansas, on May 7, 2014. Parsons is an old shop town, yard and crew change point on the former Missouri-Kansas-Texas (Katy) Railroad.
About to enter the north end of the Parsons yard is an inbound St Louis train with a cut of intermodal up front.
Actually a EMD RS-3m
Photo by DAVID HAMLEY from my collection.
RS-3M EMD. The MKT 142 still in use today for the Midland Railway in Baldwin City, KS. www.midlandrailway.org
35mm slide from my collection, Photographer Dave Stowe.
At Taylor, Katy's line forked. To the left, the line to Houston. To the right, Katy had trackage rights on the Missouri Pacific to Austin and San Antonio.
