Nostalgia & History > Kansas City Variety.

Spring 1996.
BN ????-9262-7021-ATSF.
ATSF 8158-5073-5970.
SP ??48-7633-CSX 5949-SP 9200-9346.
UP 6192-9199-9106.
(B.M.Ernatt video).

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Nice stuff! That BN leader on the first train is the BN 1991.

- Jeff Carlson

That SP stack train running through there is confusing to me. Perhaps a reroute off of the Golden State for some reason?

- Jeff Carlson

bnsfsd70 Wrote:
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> That SP stack train running through there is
> confusing to me. Perhaps a reroute off of the
> Golden State for some reason?
>
Trackage rights train. Early in the 90's, SP got rights over the BN's former Q line, now the Brookfield Sub,
from Kansas City to Chicago. With the BNSF merger, their rights went onto the Santa Fe from essentially Joliet
to Hutchison, KS, where they go back on the former Rock Island. Don't ask me why they didn't interchange in
Kansas City as the UP does now because I simply don't know. Certainly it was financial, these things always
are, but I've never heard a reason.

The coal train in the first clips with the 1991 interests me much more. Why is an empty train coming off the BN
onto the Santa Fe. That's really puzzling to me. At first, I thought this was a Red Rock train, but that train
is OGEX hoppers and these were BN. Maybe someone can answer that one.

The UP train in the final clip appears to be a Sheffield, a place you can't get to or shoot if you could.

Nick Tharalson,
Marion, IA