Returning to the yard after working downtown elevators, this switch job is about to clump across UP's McPherson Branch.

The return leg of the McPherson turn (behind a WP GP40-2 recently demoted from mainline WP duties and shipped to the heartland for a less glamorius role) has arrived back at Salina, but cannot ent... (more)

A d/b-less MP SD40-2 and two B-boats head a train out the Kansas Pacific at Salina.

Best laid plans... I assumed incorrectly that this train was headed out UP's Kansas Pacific main, so I positioned myself to catch the two WP GP40-2s - recently demoted from the Feather River main... (more)

The Plainville branch is probably already on borrowed time, but UP is still spending a few dollars on maintenance, as evidenced by this ballast train behind a hybrid yellow/MP GP50.

Back in the day, Salina - which was served by UP, MP, OKKT and ATSF - sometimes seemed like a mini-North Platte. Power from NW, SCL, CS, BN, Milw and other roads was also frequently present at UP... (more)

OK&T freight waits at East Salina for a UP local to clear. From this point to Abilene, Santa Fe and OK&T ran over UP's Kansas Pacific.

Running on rights granted as a condition of the UP-MP merger, an ATSF freight arrives in Salina via UP's McPherson branch. Downtown elevators serve as a backdrop as the diesels cross Missouri Pac... (more)

Salina was no North Platte, but it did see a pretty good variety of power over the old Kansas Pacific. Here, a somewhat unlikely duo of MP GP38-2 & Milwaukee GP40 are being utilized in yard and ... (more)

Its trip to Salina from the Colorado mainline at Gypsum almost over, a very short local crosses the through truss bridge over the Smoky Hill River. For many years MP ran scheduled local freights ... (more)

A switch crew moves a real tank car.

A pair of road units rests silent among the towering grain elevators in Salina.

A pair of geeps rests in the Salina yard on a warm Kansas afternoon.

With the morning sun rising in the sky, UP 844 is steamed up and ready to depart Salina, Kansas westward for Sharon Springs.

Lots of railroad 'flavor' had disappeared by the 1980s, but there was plenty more to be lost in the following years. A glimpse of the UP yard in Salina - an important intermediate spot on the Kan... (more)