BN 3 shoves the IRM Christmas train past the Depot St. stop.

A Decade of Difference in Design

On a smoggy day in Los Angeles, California, on April 29, 1976, a three-unit set of SDP40Fs is combined with Amtrak E9A 417. This lashup was most like... (more)

Chicago Terminal and Polar Express equipment layover in Elk Grove Village for servicing before being put on other assignments

BN/Metra commuter trains relax at the Aurora coach yard awaiting commuter duties of the next work week. The Morrison Knudsen rebuilt E8s and E9s are approaching retirement age having lived a previ... (more)

The quiet of a Sunday morning along the Columbia is disturbed by this eastbound passenger special. The train was deadheading home after being used on some Operation Lifesaver trains in the Northwe... (more)

Rocking and rolling down the UP Coffeyville Sub. near Bucyrus, KS at 215th and Antioch is the 2011 NFL Super Bowl XLV Special, UP Train SCBFW 30 with the E-Units, UP 1988, and UP 2010 heading up 2... (more)

UP 951 leads an excursion train west of Atchison, KS in August of 1994. I remember it was so hot this day that we never turned the car of so the A/C could keep running. I think we are a little spo... (more)

A fantrip on the Oregon Trunk approaches O.T. Junction and a return to the UP mainline on a flawless fall afternoon. This train operated between Portland and Bend through the Columbia River Gorge ... (more)

The Watco Business Train running with WSOR Equipment eases back into K&O Yaggy Yard after a round trip to Great Bend, KS and back to celebrate the opening of Bartlett Grain Company's new facility ... (more)

Yet another Santa Fe Depot is passed by the Watco Companies Business Train on its eastbound run back to the K&O Yaggy Yard near Hutchinson, after a run to the new Bartlett Grain Company elevator n... (more)

The Watco Companies Business Train passes another oil well along the rolling Kansas Landscape on the K&O Great Bend Sub.

Locomotive: WSOR 101

4-30-15
Raymond, KS

Two things in this photo typify a vast swath of profit generated by Watco online business: an oil well and a wheat field. The company and the railroad industry in general wouldn't be what it is t... (more)

The Watco Companies Business Train using Wisconsin & Southern equipment leaves the new 3 Million bushel facility which has just finished construction outside Great Bend, KS. The grain elevator is... (more)

The Watco Companies Business Train using WSOR equipment is headed by #101, their covered wagon EMD E9, is rolling under a Santa Fe steam locomotive coaling tower on the K&O Great Bend Sub. after w... (more)

The long out of service wye was restored to use for the sole purpose of turning the business train here today. I can imagine this was a somewhat stressful endeavor for those directly involved, bu... (more)