Amtrak's Southwest Chief rolls in for a station stop at La Plata as a storm pushes through to the east.

BNSF 5070 leads a westbound manifest under the Santa Fe signal bridge that guards the east control point in the sub's namesake town.

UP 8668 is on the point of a UP stack train moving westbound at Ethel, MO. New signals are up along the Marceline Sub but not all have been cut in yet, as seen here at the east Ethel crossover.

BNSF 5002 leads a westbound manifest under the Santa Fe signal bridge that guards the east control point in the sub's namesake town.

A pair of CN EMD's are in charge of an auto rack train barreling westbound toward Kansas City on the section of the Marceline Sub that runs jointly between BNSF and NS.

BNSF 7104, a new C4 GEVO, is leading a stack train westbound at Hardin, MO.

BNSF 788 is the lead motor on a bare table blasting past the Santa Fe-built Amtrak station in La Plata, MO. With the ever-increasing amount of orange on the BNSF, shots like these are getting hard... (more)

Three NS GE's lead a eastbound hopper train towards La Plata Missouri on BNSF's Marceline Sub.

BNSF 7279 leads 3 other 6-axle GE's on a westbound intermodal near Carrollton, MO. Threatening skies across the river don't have much effect on the many BNSF trains flying across the Missouri Rive... (more)

The engineer in charge of UP's AGBAM 20 gives a quick wave as his train rips through the quiet town of La Plata.

A ghost of the past. A BNSF Warbonnet leads an earth worm out of La Plata, westward for Kansas City and beyond.

NS 2588 leads an eastbound rack train across the flat and wide Missouri River bottoms at sunset. This train is closing in on WB Jct. where the NS line will split off from the BNSF and head toward ... (more)

Racing on the Transcon. BNSF 7489 is leading a stack train that is pacing an NS auto rack train led by NS 9726. The two will continue side-by-side all the way to CA Jct. where the NS train ... (more)

BNSF 7081 leads a westbound stack train into Hardin.

Back in 1998 an A-B-B-A consist hustles this hotshot intermodal train thru northern Missouri. This train is between Baring and Rutledge on the BNSF Transcon.