Santa Fe train number 3, The California Limited, is at Florence Kansas in 1931. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Vivacious Velocity | A vibrant sky grows lighter as the sun rises near Ottawa, KS where an eastbound BNSF "Z" train charges across a road on the stormy morning of Saturday, July 1... (more)

Stormy Saturday Sunrise | A manifest train headed for Newton, KS has just left the town of Ottawa, KS behind as it heads west during a rain shower on the stormy morning of Saturday, July 13... (more)

On the former Kansas Pacific Railway ("KP") mainline, a Topeka to Salina mixed freight sprints out of Belvue, March 27, 2023.

The locomotive has pulled forward to clear the switch and run around the train for the return trip to Abilene, KS.

BNSF 4459 is one of many locomotives at the diesel shops in the BNSF Argentine yard.

Midwest Rail 205 is being overhauled at the Railway Service Contractors facility in Kansas City, Kansas. This GP-9 was originally the DRGW 5904. Photo taken with permission.

When I walked into the Railway Service Contractors facility in Kansas City, Kansas, the last thing I expected to see was the Alco FA2 Western Maryland 303. I had last seen this engine in Barton, M... (more)

Former Patriot Rail 1902 is being overhauled at the Railway Service Contractors facility in Kansas City. Photo taken with permission wearing all required safety gear.

Not only is the diesel shops in the BNSF Argentine yard full of BNSF locomotives, there is also visitors from Ferromex, Norfolk Southern, CEFX and a former MetroLink passenger engine with LETX mar... (more)

A BN caboose is in the consist on this switching job at Argentine Yard.

Kansas City Landscape | Alongside the Kansas River, a yard transfer train from Norfolk Southern's Avondale Yard approaches the BNSF's Argentine Yard in Kansas City, KS on a bright and warm ... (more)

The recent BNSF merger brings a rainbow of power to a move to balance power from the former BN Murray Yard in Missouri to the former ATSF Argentine Yard in Kansas.

KANSAS CITY Sept 29 1980 — Precision National Corp. NW2 PNCX 1012 (c/n 6686) is tied down at Armourdale Yard. EMD delivered the unit in January 1949 as Baltimore & Ohio 563. It was renumbered to... (more)

Four motors still rule the hot intermodal trains on the Transcon. A westbound approaches a service and crew change point at Argentine Yard.