After leaving the KCS yard, the KCT transfer passes Tower 2. A special thank you to fellow RP contributor Anthony Randall for showing me around Missouri.

Kansas City Terminal EMD SW1200s Nos. 77 and 72 switch West Bottoms in Kansas City, Missouri, on September 14, 1990. The train is passing some idle Chicago and North Western locomotives, along wit... (more)

After waiting an hour for two cars worth of hazmat paperwork, KCT Train 105 drags 28 cars back to KCT Mill Street Yard from UP Armourdale Yard past Tower 14 at Adams Street Interlocking with Engin... (more)

The GP39-2 bring KCT Train 310 through KC Union Station on the Terminal's East-West Corridor with cars out of KCT Mill Street Yard for Blue River Yard on the east side of town.

Locomotives: ... (more)

KCT Train 311 is headed back to KCT Mill Street Yard on the North Main with a patriotic looking red, white, and blue SW1 in the consist owned by Midwest Locomotive and leased by Advantage Metals f... (more)

Since we were ahead on interchange traffic and behind on industry switching the KCT Train 311 was utilized to switch customers this cold snowy evening rather than transferrring tonnage to our Clas... (more)

Transfer KCT Train 311 comes across the UP Diamond at Sheffield on KCT Main 1 as it prepares to round the curve towards KCS Knoche Yard with cars from both KCT Mill Street and Blue River Yards. <... (more)

Kansas City Union Station is host to the 2015 KCS Holiday Express, and by default the KCS Southern Belle Business Train in KCT Track 281. Also being heralded by the station at the moment is Amtra... (more)

Kansas City Union Station is host to the 2015 KCS Holiday Express, and by default the KCS Southern Belle Business Train in KCT Track 281.

It's not every day you see a railroad's "one sp... (more)

Engineer ST Jamerson lays on the whistle of the SW1200 heading up KCT Train 217, returning to KCT Mill Street Yard with 37 cars from UP Armourdale Yard. Brakeman JA Sutphin also keeps a vigilant ... (more)

KCT Train 105 is hard at work kicking out the inbound Blue River train which was brought in earlier by the 310 transfer job.

Cars from that train are almost exclusively billed out to the int... (more)

KCT Train 217 returns to Mill Street Yard after switching 4 customers in the industrial area near Kansas and 18th Street.

Locomotive: WAMX 3855

10-19-15
Kansas City, KS

KCT Train 217 has a pair of SW1200's at the helm with 37 cars for BNSF Argentine Yard, seen here preparing to depart KCT Mill Street Yard.

The crew will pick up 3 BNSF units at the former Sa... (more)

KCT Train 310 hammers through Kansas City Union Station in notch 8, breaking the relative silence at the Liberty Memorial. It's a beautiful, warm summer morning in KC.

Locomotives: WAMX 393... (more)

The tornado sirens are blaring in Kansas City this afternoon and 3 KCT engines sit tied down waiting for the severe weather to pass. The storms prompting the warnings produced several brief torna... (more)