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.

KANSAS CITY KS Sept 29 1979 – With complete shutdown only months away Rock Island GP7 4540 sits at the Armourdale Yard sanding facility. According to www.utahrails.net the unit started life as C... (more)

Katy EMD SW9 Nos. 21 and 19 take a breather at Glen Park Yard in Kansas City, Kansas, on a slushy and cold December 8, 1985. The large grain elevator lining the south end of the yard between South... (more)

AM At Armourdale | Forty minutes past sunrise on a windy Saturday, April 6, 2024, a westbound manifest train approaches Union Pacific's 18th Street Yard in Kansas City, KS. Having just cros... (more)

It’s a gray wintery day as an empty coal train off the MKT heads east off the former Frisco main line after skirting MKT’s Glen Park Yard, and is now approaching the Burlington Northern crossi... (more)

ATSF 127 leads a westbound freight thru Kansas City in March of 1996.