A trip to Kansas City is not complete without seeing some KCS trains. While this isn't actually a KCS train, it is nice to find a pair of their Southern Belles northeast of downtown near the UP Q... (more)

The remains of the cab from a former EMD SD90MAC-H2 built for Union Pacific are seen resting on the ground these days instead of pulling a heavy trains as intended. Although the locomotive model ... (more)

Mid-car America has been fixing up locomotives in the Kansa city area since 1978. Today a good variety of class I and leased power reside at their shops in a plethora of paint schemes.

A UP trackage rights train is about to duck underneath the signal bridge protecting the interlocking between the CP and NS mainlines at Birmingham. Besides the obvious UP leader at the front, thi... (more)

A vintage BN SW1500 switcher that's nearing 46 years old after having been delivered to the Frisco in 1969 takes a breather from shoving cars around and enjoys the calm before a midday storm.

Brand new freight cars from American Railcar Industries have just arrived from that manufactures Arkansas plant and now wait to begin working on the nation’s rail network.

The type E couplers of two covered hoppers are held tight against each other as they roll through the gooseneck. From this vantage point it’s easy to see the spacious flat space provided at the... (more)

A lone AC4400 shoves on the rear of this empty coal train that is passing through the city on its way back to the coal fields of Wyoming.

With the exception of the BNSF H1 paint scheme, all other variations the post-merger paint scheme with BNSF letters on the long hood are seen on this set power resting in Pueblo one morning.

Maintenance of Way equipment is needed to take on some tough jobs and one of most well-known types of MoW equipment is the Difco Dump car built by the Differential Steel Car Company of Findlay, Oh... (more)

Horizon un-level....oh wait it's just the truck
The A end truck of this rail flatcar has run over a piece of wood cribbing used to separate the layers of rail that were once inside th... (more)

Sitting on hump track #3 is a familiar face from the Southeast, CSXT 754, who is the rear most DPU on a loaded coal train. This unit coal load is awaiting a new crew to take it just few miles from... (more)

The sun has finally come back out from behind a fast moving eastward thunderstorm as empty train bound for Black Thunder Mine comes to a stop at Pueblo Junction. A brand new Ace, more)

It's not too often one can capture an entire freight train in one shot, but that is the case here at the famous Big Ten Curve along the former Rio Grande mainline through the Rockies. This elabor... (more)

For some freight cars the end of the line is not necessarily the scrapper’s torch, but instead finding use somewhere else other than the railroad. This former Santa Fe covered hopper built in M... (more)