A pair of run-through Kansas City Southern locomotives power an eastbound loaded coal train into York on the BNSF's mainline across Nebraska. My best friend from college was the sports editor for ... (more)

I was glad that the local crew in the yard seen we needed more power at the shops after we showed up. So on this Monday morning they brought over the 3 geeps on the right and parked them. That mad... (more)

The UP run thru Z-train (IZLCAI) from Los Angles to Atlanta that the KCS handles between Shreveport and Meridian, slowly pulls into the siding at Vicksburg. The train is meeting this massive 12,00... (more)

A 12,000 foot Artesia to Shreveport freight train rumbles thru the small town of Edwards on the Meridian Sub. The job left Jackson with 6 motors (5x1) and over 13,000 tons.

The Vicksburg Turn local rolls across the 1917 built stone arch bridge over the Big Black River. This bridge is located at MP 127.8 on the KCS Meridian Sub. This job is carrying a whopping 114 car... (more)

Humming along around 54mph, this Jackson base local has 13,000 tons of freight from the Vicksburg Southern at Vicksburg well in hand. They pass the small town of Bolton about 15 miles west of Jack... (more)

The Rich Mountain area on the KCS Shreveport Sub is a well known location. Here we have many chasing the KCS business train that ran from Laredo to KC over a 4 days. The trip was for John Orr, the... (more)

KCS 4107 (SD70ACe) leads a very short 37 car CP 470 past the old searchlights in Sturtevant, WI.

The Brooklyn Bridge. Kansas City Southern's L-GP101, the Gulfport Local, crossed the Black Creek in Brooklyn, Mississippi on the late afternoon of September 29, 2022 with the all EMD trio o... (more)

The Rich Mountain area on the KCS Shreveport Sub is a well known location. The KCS goes up around the Quachita Mountains near the Oklahoma/Arkansas Stateline. Here trains go from 500 feet to the s... (more)

The Shreveport to KC freight train lumbers into the siding at Gentry to meet a grain train. The northbound freight is climbing from MP 225 to MP 219 on a 1% grade even thru the restricted speed si... (more)

The "machine verses gravity" show is going on in Northern Arkansas here. This loaded coal train off the BNSF is digging in on the final 1.5% grade into Decatur on the KCS Heavener Sub. ... (more)

The KC to Sanchez Yard - Nuevo Laredo, MX, freight train is back on the move after meeting one, following one. Both trains meet a northbound grain empty here at Watts on the Heavener Sub. The KCSZ... (more)

The Heavener Sub rolls south out of the Ozark Mountains towards the Arkansas River Valley. The railroad has 100 miles of Oklahoma running as they drop down from the 1321 feet summit at Gentry, AR,... (more)

A loaded grain train from Mexico, MO, bound for Mexico City, Mexico, twist upgrade out of Watts. The 2x2 Dp'd train is working over the 210 miles crew district from Pittsburg to Heavener. The trai... (more)