November 2012 Around Kansas City

The KCS Flyer BNSF Train Y KCK1111 01T heads through Santa Fe Jct. for KCS Knoche Yard with a healthy cut of Schneider containers.

New Image BNSF SD70MAC leads a coal load up to 30th Street as it starts the pull up the hill out of town on the BNSF Ft. Scott Sub.

A BNSF New Image SD70MAC leads a coal load crossing over at CP Bravo on the BNSF Ft. Scott Sub. These signals are endangered, the others on this section of the line already have new hooded tri-lights up next to them. Another Frisco line gets generic.

The Lenexa Switcher shoves north with a 5 man cab GP50L as a coal load blasts south on Merriam Hill along the BNSF Ft. Scott Sub.

Assortment of stored power at the roundhouse in Newton.

Veteran EMD, retired, but still on the property.

You'd never know this was a former Santa Fe yard from this shot.

Hope you like warbonnets, because there's a mess of them stored at Newton along with a few orange ones. From left to right there is a row of 8, 4, and 8.

An Eastern visitor hangs onto the back of the consist as BNSF Train H KCKDEN1 14A heads past Merrick on the BNSF Emporia Sub. CSXT 982 was the first boxcar logo CSX unit I've seen. Not impressed.

Blasting west at Merrick on the BNSF Emporia Sub. is BNSF Train Q CHILAC6 13A passing some men and equipment on Main Track 2.

More containers hitch a ride westbound on BNSF Train Z WSPSBD9 13L at Merrick on the BNSF Emporia Sub.

In the waning light of the evening, BNSF Train Z WSPSTO9 13A brings more boxes past Merrick on the BNSF Emporia Sub.

Ex-MP unit tied down in the house track at Harrisonville.

Nicely assorted consist tied down at the roundhouse at KCS-CP Joint Agency Yard.

Nice set of EMD 40 series power tied down at the KCS-CP Joint Agency Yard roundhouse.

I've been trying to get a shot of a train heading up the KCT Bluff Line since 2007, so this KCS Belle led empty will do. This is a hard shot to get unless you know about something coming off the KCS headed to the BNSF, being that those type of moves are basically the only thing that runs this way. I happened to be leaving Union Station when I saw them coming and headed back over here to set up.

KCT Train 217 has just tied up for the night in the house in front of the tower at KCT Mill Street Yard. 105 job, which used the SW1200 went home several hours ago.

A pair of SD60s are utilized on UP Train YKC75 25, the UP Neff Yard to BNSF Murray Yard transfer, heading north on the BNSF Coal Main Line at Ustick Tower.

Builders plate on BNSF 8941, a SD70MAC, serial number 976814-169, built 8-99.

A pair of CSX GEs ease UP Train AASAM 25 around the curves at Adams Street Interlocking on the KCT Low Line.

Tower 14 used to protect the area around Adams Street Interlocking. Today, the area is under the authority of KCT Traffic Control.

While setting out bad orders, UP Train AAMKB 26 pokes out on the KCT High Line as viewed from under the KCT Low Line on Adams Street.

Making another poke out on the KCT High Line is UP Train AAMKB 26. In the foreground is the inactive KCT Tower 14.

After getting a Restricting, a BNSF stack train creeps west through Kansas City Union Station, passing KCS 34, the resident F-Unit that I returned to the station with KCT Train 105 after a 13 month absence from the station. The engine had been stored inside Kansas City Railcar Service in KCK.

Engine was returned to KCUS by yours truly today with KCT Train 105 after being off the property for 13 months, in storage at Kansas City Railcar Service in KCK.