This BNSF mixed freight is passing under one of only two remaining Santa Fe signal bridges in the area. This is the BNSF Marceline Sub in Missouri.

The sun is beginning to sink in the western sky as yet another GE-led Z train roars up the slight hogback just east of Marceline, MO. The train is about to cross a gravel road and duck under the s... (more)

Waiting for the sun to swing around to the west, I caught this BNSF stack train passing under the old ATSF signal bridge just east of Marceline.

This short UP stack train is moving west approaching Marceline.

A biting cold wind greets a westbound train loaded with old railroad ties as it passes under Highway 36 approaching Marceline Missouri.

A Union Pacific westbound rolls on BNSF trackage past the abandoned Santa Fe coaling tower at Marceline, Mo.

A BNSF freight heads east on the former Santa Fe, passing the unused coaling tower in the Marceline yard.

A BNSF manifest freight passes under one of a dwindling number of Sante Fe signal bridges on the BNSF Transcon.

This eastbound UP stack train is accelerating out of Marceline on the BNSF Marceline Sub.

An east bound stack train accelerates coming out of Marceline on the BNSF Marceline Sub.

A UP visitor is passing under a Sante Fe era signal bridge on the Marceline sub. These signal bridges are slowly disappearing. Interesting to note that both Main 1 and Main 2 were laid here in 1... (more)

BNSF 6630 leads a stack train east of Marceline,Missouri

As passenger business was dwindling in the late 1960’s and the advent of Amtrak was approaching, Santa Fe began storing excess equipment at Marceline, Mo. The lines of mostly stainless steel ca... (more)

Is this an odd consist or what? BNSF 2888 leads the rest of the Cement City local power and BNSF's display train with BNSF 8175 and three passenger cars back west towards KC at Marceline, Missouri... (more)

Eastbound Santa Fe manifest MKCMC (Kansas City to McCook, IL) a few miles east of Marceline