The Borax brush sprayer is almost to the telephone pole on the Rock Island at Pleasant Hill, Mo. Aug. 28, 1965. Such work trains could disburse over 100,000 gallons of herbicides in a day. Then... (more)

Would you say it was high time to run the brush sprayer? Note the barely-visible pole line crossarm, adjacent to the two Rock Island GP-7s 1347-1337. Borax contractor brush sprayer was eastboun... (more)

Rock Island rebuilt motor car 9090 into a self-propelled weed sprayer; note the booms on the side that swing out. It was photographed with its tank car of herbicide at Topeka, Kansas

A westbound Cotton Belt freight has just cleared the bridge over the Mississippi River after it departed Memphis, Tenn. on Aug. 25, 1962 as Rock Island Train 32 with Alco RS3 472 prepares to cross... (more)

Three Geeps hustle Rock Island tonnage westbound over Union Pacific traffic rights at North Topeka, Kansas as Santa Fe’s local from Atchison with a Fairbanks-Morse road-switcher also arrives tow... (more)

“Can you hear me now?” Rock Island GP40 371 and GP35 318 follow a rural “grapevine” phone line near Mayetta, Kansas northward toward St. Joseph, Mo. July 3, 1965.

Known as “Erie-builts,” KCS Fairbanks-Morse 61 was being coupled to a GP-30 at Kansas City as Four Aces RS-1 stood by on Feb. 22, 1966. The FM’s had only four traction motors on the 6-wh... (more)

No wonder these four Fairbanks-Morse 6-axle diesels (61A, 61B, 60B, 62B) were still on KCS’s roster on May 22, 1966 — there were all re-engined by EMD ten years earlier in 1956. They soon wen... (more)

Squatty-body KCS Alco HH-1000 switcher 1121 was already 26 years old when captured on May 22, 1966 at Kansas City, Mo. But it had only six more months of life before being retired in November.

Generally known as “white knights,” KCS’s highest numbered SD-40 636 leads two mates and their southbound train by the brick depot at DeRidder, La. on Feb. 15, 1973. The last KCS passenger ... (more)

A single KCS GP-30 has five F B units MU’ed as they tow northbound traffic through DeRidder, La. in the morning sunlight on Nov. 26, 1969.

KCS E8 27 was looking a bit ratty as it led a tiny 3-car “Southern Belle” out of Kansas City Union Depot at Tower 6 on Feb. 12, 1969. Trains 1 and 2, the “Southern Belle,” didn’t surviv... (more)

With No. 116 in the lead, two KCS GP-30’s have three F B units between them as the five team up to hustle southbound tonnage through DeRidder, La. on May 22, 1970. The train is headed to any o... (more)

Nineteen years after CN’s wide-nose SD40-2 5241 was photographed crossing the Thompson River in British Columbia, it was leading a train load of gypsum near Windsor Jct., Nova Scotia, about 3,00... (more)

It’s not a good sign when one is waiting for the next subject to enter his viewfinder and it turns out to be a derrick work train. That assuredly indicates the line is blocked with a derailme... (more)