Western Railroad Discussion > Few From Kansas City/Topeka Area

Last Sunday (5/26/2013) I made a trip up to the Kansas City Missouri area to put some flowers on my grandpas grave up in Leavenworth Kansas for Memorial weekend and also got a little railfanning in before the monsoon rain storm that hit Monday morning. Thanks for taking a look.

1: Massachusetts Central Railroad's B&M Heritage unit awaits delivery at Mid-America Car near Kansas City Missouri.

2: Power sitting around at Mid-America Car near Kansas City Missouri.

3: CREX 1203 ES44AC waiting for a leaser at Mid-America Car.

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4: A rerouted oil load from the Brookfield Sub from the Rockview Missouri derailment and auto train from NS's Voltz yard wait there turn to cross the Missouri river in North Kansas City. Locomotives: BNSF 9072, BNSF 9243, BNSF 4735, BNSF 1352 & BNSF 8620.

5: A Progress Rail built BNSF "SD32ECO" #1352 waits it's turn to cross the Missouri River to get to BNSF's Argentine yard near BNSF's Murry Yard.

6: NS GP38-2 #5190 sits under I-35/29 near Norfolk Southerns Avondale yard in North Kansas City.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/30/13 04:13 by JMorhaus.

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7: BNSF 6033 with a special sitting near the shops in Topeka Kansas.

8: Ex Santa Fe's parked around the shops. BNSF 889, BNSF 599, BNSF 655 & BNSF 676.

9: Ex ATSF 666 waiting for work at BNSF's Topeka Kansas Shops.

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10: BNSF 929, BNSF 881, BNSF 948, BNSF 941, BNSF 944, BNSF 878 waiting for work at BNSF's Topeka Kansas Shops.

11: BNSF 2652, BNSF 2663 & BNSF 9871 at the shops.

12: This is why BNSF is my favorite railroad to railfan, BNSF 3179, BNSF 9651, BNSF 2380 & BNSF 1576 at BNSF's Topeka Kansas shops.

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Nice photos! Have those Citirail units been roaming around the US yet? I don't seem to have seen any photos of them.

Chris

13: Locomotives from right to left that I could see at BNSF's Topeka Kansas Shops: BNSF 3972, BNSF 253, BNSF 1661, BNSF 502, BNSF 9413, BNSF 9443, BNSF 9416, BNSF 901, BNSF 912, BNSF 935, BNSF 870, BNSF/LTEX 1724 (SD9), BNSF 882, BNSF 885, BNSF 933, BNSF 890, BNSF 536, BNSF 926, BNSF 907, BNSF 2615, BNSF 1867, BNSF 8290, BNSF 8259, BNSF 8227, BNSF 8154, BNSF 8183, BNSF 8275, BNSF 8272, BNSF 2864, BNSF 2303, BNSF 2206, BNSF 2230, BNSF 6707 (SD40-2), BNSF 3031, BNSF 1999, BNSF 2169, BNSF 2139 and BNSF 6773 (SD40-2).

14: BNSF 9418, BNSF 9672, BNSF 9690, BNSF 9636, BNSF 3139, BNSF 2115, BNSF 9600, BNSF 169 (ex Tex-Mex GP60), BNSF 9677, BNSF 2614, BNSF 3600, BNSF 5301, BNSF 7697, BNSF 7658 and BNSF 5605 at BNSF's Topeka Shops.

15: A closer look at ex Tex-Mex GP60 BNSF 169, does it look fixed?

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CJ Wrote:
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> Nice photos! Have those Citirail units been
> roaming around the US yet? I don't seem to have
> seen any photos of them.
>
> Chris


I don't think they've even moved since they first arrived in KC.

16: BNSF 1630 & BNSF 8855 at BNSF's Topeka Shops.

17: CSX 7586 & CSX 897 leads I'm assuming a Fairfax Kansas bound auto-train through Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City Missouri.

18: BNSF 6359, BNSF 9506 & BNSF 9529 waits it's turn to cross the Missouri River bridge to get on to BNSF's St. Joe Sub to continue north at the West Bottoms in Kansas City Missouri.

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19: UP 6380 DPU working it's way towards KCS/CP's Knoche yard in KC.

20: UP 5223 leads a NS auto train to a stop near BNSF's Murry yard in North Kansas City.

21: BNSF 8857 & 9470 leads a string of empty hoppers west coming off the BNSF Brookfield Sub near Norfolk Southerns Avondale yard and heading towards BNSF's Murry Yard to get to the St. Joe Sub.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/30/13 05:12 by JMorhaus.

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22: NS 9368 & NS 8946 leads #111 east around Birmingham Junction on Norfolk Southerns Kansas City District.

23: UP 8632 UP 6960 leads a Global 4 bound stack train east on joint trackage on BNSF's Marceline Sub.

24: Amtrak 156 leads #314 Missouri River Runner to a stop at the station in Independence Missouri during a thunder storm on it's trip to St. Louis on Union Pacific's Sedalia Sub on 5/27/2013.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/30/13 05:18 by JMorhaus.

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25: Amtrak 156 leads #314 Missouri River Runner to a stop at the station in Washington Missouri on Union Pacific's Jeff City Sub. 5/27/2013

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Great stuff Jeff. Missouri is truly the land of great train watching.

Great series with a bunch of interesting subjects!

BNSF 9418 is retired and being stripped for parts. Kind of sad. I got to run that unit on the transcon in AZ a month before it was retired. Glad I took some pics of it then.

Great series!

Yea that BNSF 169 sure looks like it will see action again!

Great action Jeff.

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Instead of reviving all those trash 9's, I wonder why WARREN BUFFET didn't lease those 15 brand new CITIRAIL ES44AC's?

Those CITIRAIL ES44AC' are for Warranty protection

169 looks a lot better. Nose all fixed up. Truck work as well.

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