Hostlers bring a BC Rail cowl back into UP Armourdale Yard on the Runner and back down to 500 yard. The unit was used on UP Train AAMMQ 08.

Locomotive: BCOL 4614

5-8-15
Kansas Ci... (more)

Stored units look forlorn at the UP Armourdale Yard diesel shop. UP has placed a number of Dash-8's and SD60 variants back into storage for the time being. The SD38-2 is here for wheel truing. ... (more)

Still clawing away at Merriam Hill on the BNSF Ft. Scott Sub., the engineer on UP Train AAMEW 07 has his only running steed pulling about 1,200 amps and the sanders are on, as the conductor tries ... (more)

A pair of trains meet on the KCT Low Line at Adams Street Interlocking, UP Train GSCTE5 11 is coming out the UP Armourdale Yard Outbound and the KMNOA 12 is headed into The Inbound.

This rou... (more)

An eclectic mix of power heads BNSF Train T KCS1 13R, the Santa Fe 112 Job, bound for KCS Knoche Yard. There was a fatal police shooting of a car jacking suspect directly adjacent to the bridge i... (more)

The face of the KCT has changed a little bit during the past year. Our famous bananas are now split up in yard and sporadic transfer service, as the pair of GP39-2's have taken over transfer duti... (more)

The Liberty Memorial dominates the backdrop as UP Train AAMEW 07 starts to lay into Merriam Hill on the BNSF Ft. Scott Sub. with only the SD40-2 leader available for power. It's notch 8 and sand ... (more)

CSX power leads UP Train AAMEW 07 dragging out of UP Armourdale Yard on The Outbound getting onto the KCT Low Line, as the DPU on UP Train CNRFG9 06 shoves its train over the KCT High Line.

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KCT Train 217 is just going about its duties as the power for KCT 310 and 311 sits in the house between jobs. At the time the GP39-2's just had their logos applied to the nose by Midwest Locomoti... (more)

Bound for Atchison, KS, UP Train MKCAT 24 crosses the Kaw River at the aptly named Kaw Point, which is the confluence of this channel into the Missouri River. The train is on the UP KC Metro Sub.... (more)

This veteran started out in July 1970 as C&O 7521, builder number 36750, frame number 7276-15. On this day it was the trailing unit on what will become BNSF Train U KCKHKM0 01T, seen here at KCT ... (more)

A newer Tier 4 GEVO leads an empty coal train east out of Kansas City, KS on the Kansas Sub.

ARGENTINE KS May 1976 -- The hostler guides bookend paint scheme SD45 5512 away from the shops.

It's a race! Not really, but both trains are moving. We are west of Kansas City in March of 1995, and we heard 2 sets of horns blowing for a crossing west of us. Fortunately, the faster train led ... (more)

Standing in Missouri and Photographing in Kansas

BNSF Railway GP39-2R 2761 and SD40-2 1747 wait with a transfer run of intermodal cars at CP Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City, Kansas,... (more)