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 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 prepares to depart BNSF Argentine Yard for KCT Mill Street Yard with 19 cars and the power for tomorrow's scrap steel train, which left town as BNSF Train U KCKHKM0 12T. Tagging alo... (more)

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)

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)

One of the Terminal's Ex-SP GP35R's sits in 145 Track on KCT Train 217 while the crew is at beans at Mill Street Yard.

Locomotive: WAMX 3855

8-31-15
Kansas City, KS

Switcher 1205 prepares to lead KCT Train 217 out of Track 403 back to Mill Street Yard with 34 cars as KCT Train 505 starts their work for the day in Track 402.

Locomotives: WAMX 1205, WAMX ... (more)

After pulling 3 cars at KCT 12th Street Yard, the SW1200 and its short KCT Train 217 wait to enter BN 1 and proceed back to Mill Street.

The switcher turns 58 this month, built in February 1... (more)

KCT Train 217 is just going about its duties as the power for KCT 310 and 311 sits in the house between jobs. At the time the GP39-2's just had their logos applied to the nose by Midwest Locomoti... (more)

Banana 3855 is working KCT Train 217, pulling 4 empty plastic pellet hoppers from the former GM&O 12th Street Yard, which is now used for transloading on the KCTL. The hoppers are taken to Mill S... (more)

Watco's KCT 217 job is returning from serving several industries in the West Bottoms. The train is heading around the wye at Adams St in order to back into KCT's Mill Street Yard.

WATCO's KCT 217 job heads for Thomas industry as a UP coal train awaits a signal off the High Line.

Watco's KCT 217 job is seen switching a scrap metal customer outside of Mill St Yard in Kansas City, KS.

At the west end of KCT Mill Street Yard, KCT Train 217 doubles up 74 cars bound for UP Neff Yard later tonight. This engine has been switching cars here at Mill Street for 50 years this year, sta... (more)

Slow Day... Well, actually there is plenty of action at BN Crossing on the Kansas City Terminal. A BNSF stack train is holding on the flyover for a signal to go east across the Terminal as... (more)