BNSF 5360 glides down the hill into La Plata, Missouri in the early morning hours.

Westbound hotshot Z-train from Willow Springs, IL, to San Bernardino, CA, blast past the Amtrak depot at La Plata. These San Bernardino trains still seem to keep solid vans with no stacks. Not sur... (more)

BNSF 8391 is the lead motor on a westbound stack train moving toward Kansas City on the Marceline Sub. The train is passing the former Santa Fe station at La Plata still used by Amtrak.

As daylight gives to dusk. BNSF 8391 leads it's hotshot intermodal past the former ATSF depot in the quaint, quiet little rural town of La Plata, Mo.

A quiet Sunday morning in the Amish country is interrupted only by the passing of the occasional horse and buggy and this Chicago-bound BNSF stack train on the Marceline Sub.

A fairly new C4 GEVO is on the point of an eastbound freight train passing the former Santa Fe depot now used by Amtrak as a stop for the Southwest Chief.

The silence of a hazy morning in the small town of La Plata is broken by the passing of a very short, and overpowered, intermodal train blasting eastbound for Chicago. With less than 25 cars, thes... (more)

Amtrak P40DC glides into the station at La Plata,Missouri.

The sun sets on these Santa Fe searchlight signals, both literally and figuratively.

BNSF 8173 leads an eastbound oil empty under a soon to be dismantled ATSF signal bridge at La Plata, Missouri on BNSF's former ATSF Marceline Sub. An hour in a half after I shot this photo, BNSF M... (more)

The former ATSF art-deco style station in La Plata, MO is still maintained and operated by Amtrak as a twice-a-day station stop for the Southwest Chief. The Amtrak decorations varying from the dif... (more)

The former ATSF art-deco style station in La Plata, MO is still maintained and operated by Amtrak as a twice-a-day station stop for the Southwest Chief.

Amtrak's Phase IV heritage engine is on the point of the eastbound Southwest Chief making its station stop in the quiet little town of La Plata.

BNSF 1759 was added to the head end of Amtrak's Southwest Chief due to locomotive issues out west. The train is running several hours late as it arrives in La Plata amid October fall colors. It wa... (more)

The fall colors are in full effect here in northern Missouri as Amtrak's phase IV heritage unit, Amtrak 184, Amtrak 206 and Amtrak 510 leads an eastbound Southwest Chief after making a station sto... (more)