Near Marceline, the BNSF Transcon passes through scenic rolling hills, providing nice, varied scenery. This photo shows a BNSF stack train east of Marcelline at Bucklin with the sun just barely a... (more)
A Blue Island to San Bernardino auto train works west on the Marceline Sub. The train passes under a skeleton ex-Santa Fe signal bridge near Bucklin. Few of these bridges made into late 2019 befor... (more)
BNSF 6614 leads a long autorack train under the few remaining ATSF signal bridges left in northern Missouri on BNSF's Marceline Subdivision.
Locomotives: BNSF 6614 & BNSF 8048
As time marches on and the signal gangs of Class 1's push hard for the PTC deadline for 2018, somehow old time signals can still be found in a few little pockets. Case in point is the 3 intermedia... (more)
Over the weekend I headed out for some Missouri BNSF trains action. The Brookfield Sub was on my mind since some of the old Q-signals are left along the line. Luck would have it we would score 4 t... (more)