The daily Kansas City, KS to Denver, CO manifest runs west under the old US Highway 50 overpass just west of Lebo as the sun gets ready to slip below the horizon.
A "silvered up" Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA Z train rolls west by the old grain elevator at Lebo, still in use by a local CO-OP, on the shortest day of the year.
A short Chicago, IL to Houston, TX Q train leaves Emporia with a UP SD70ACe second out in the consist. UP power is becoming a routine sight on BNSF trains systemwide.
A unit sand train from the Minnesota Commercial in St. Paul, WI heads west through Kansas on its run to Ft. Worth, TX.
This Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA Z trains rolls west out of Emporia, kicking up what little snow is left after the previous nights "snowstorm".
There is just enough evidence left of last nights "snowstorm" for this westbound Z train to kick up as it heads through the crossover plant at Merrick at 70 MPH.
A westbound empty ethanol train rolls across Highway K-18 just north of the same town of Talmage, KS, on the former Santa Fe branch to Superior, NE.
Looking east down the UP's Salina Subdivision from the Washington St. crossing, a classic old style colorlight signal guards the interlocking with the BNSF at Abilene, as an empty ethanol train ro... (more)
A pair of former BN SD60Ms lead this Kansas City, KS to Emporia, KS manifest off of the Topeka Sub and onto the Emporia Sub at N.R. Junction.
The DP on a westbound Galveston, TX bound grain train shoves the train up the 0.4% grade into the small hamlet of Matfield Green, in the middle of east central Kansas.
A unit salt train out of Hutchinson, KS passes an old elevator at Saffordville on its way east.
The 2011 BNSF Employee Special rolls west through the Flint Hills of east central Kansas under hazy skies on this late spring day.
Another run of the mill GEVO leads this westbound Z train over a rural grade crossing in east central Kansas.
A hot Willow Springs, IL to Stockton, CA Z train rolls west through downtown Emporia. It is "peak season" here on the transcon and this "silvered up" Z9 is running ahead of the advertised on its l... (more)
A Kansas City, KS to Barstow, CA manifest rolls west through Merrick with the city of Emporia off in the background.
