After retiring the gas turbine locomotives, the Union Pacific initially donated #18 to the Smokey Hill Railway & Historical Society. The locomotive languished along the former MoPac Coffeyville S... (more)
A southbound freight climbs out of the Blue River Valley on the east side of Swope Park.
A half dozen SD units lift a southbound freight out of the Blue River Valley on the highline route built in 1928.
A pair Kansas City Southern GEVO's lead a southbound grain train as they climb the grade out of Kansas City, Missouri and soar across the valley on the 875 foot long 63rd Street Trestle.
It's a busy morning on the west end of KCS's Knoche Yard in Kansas City, Missouri with four jobs shuffling around or waiting to make moves. A yard job with SW1500 4368 is working the Batliner Pape... (more)
BNSF train U-FTMKCK1-16 (a Fort Madison, IA to Kansas City, KS unit train of wind generators) pauses at the railroad's 10th Street Yard. The train is headed for interchange with the Union Pacific... (more)
It is 4:40 pm (16:40) and, as happens so often in the Midwest, a thunderstorm is blowing into town. The first band of rain has let up as a trio of Union Pacific AC4400CWs (5921, 6807 and 6789) pu... (more)
My father got this photo of SLSF H10-44 276 in Kansas City, Missouri circa early 1970s. I'm not sure of the exact location, perhaps 19th Street Yard. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo.
As night falls over Kansas City, MO, a Kansas City Terminal Railway local job heads west through the Union Station area on May 8, 2022.
An eastbound intermodal train crosses the flyover at Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City, crossing from Kansas into Missouri on a warm May 8, 2022.
Running "elephant style," four GE units lead a westbound intermodal train through Kansas City, MO on May 7, 2022.
A Kansas City Terminal local job heads east past Union station in Kansas City, MO on May 8, 2022.
A UP coal train passes under a BNSF counterpart in Kansas City.
A pair of SD40-2s run lite under the Buck O'Neil Bridge.
A SOO GP38-2 leads a yard job heading out to grab some cars to take back to Knoche Yard in the late evening.
