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5/17/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Rick Morgan
Dates:1/1/1974 - 12/31/2007
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NEKM
Title:  NEKM
Description:  The Northeast Kansas & Missouri RR was formed in 1989 when the UP sold the former St Joseph & Grand Island line from Marysville to St Jo to the new shortline. The outfit operated out of Hiawatha KS for only nine years before UP bought it back, largely to get empty coal trains off its heavily used route out of Topeka. The portion from Hiawatha west remains in use, everything east to St Jo was largely abandoned BY 2005. NEKM 2167 is a former ATSF GP7U.
Photo Date:  9/14/1994  Upload Date: 8/22/2008 9:20:25 PM
Location:  Hiawatha, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NEKM 2167(GP7u)
Views:  865   Comments: 2
EB UP grain; UP Falls City Sub
Title:  EB UP grain; UP Falls City Sub
Description:  A UP graintrain is eastbound on the former MP Falls City sub in September 1994 behind four SD40-2s (3163, B4163, B4344, 3418)
Photo Date:  9/14/1994  Upload Date: 2/1/2008 2:31:56 PM
Location:  Everest, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3163(SD40-2)
Views:  366   Comments: 0
Westbound Local at Huron
Title:  Westbound Local at Huron
Description:  Three units work a westbound UP local at Huron KS in 1994
Photo Date:  9/28/1994  Upload Date: 11/26/2014 10:27:30 PM
Location:  Huron, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 870(GP40)
Views:  200   Comments: 0
WB UP local
Title:  WB UP local
Description:  Two GP40s and a B23-7 pull a westbound local through Lancaster KS on the UP (ex MP) Falls City sub.
Photo Date:  9/28/1994  Upload Date: 2/1/2008 2:32:06 PM
Location:  Lancaster, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 870(GP40)
Views:  395   Comments: 0
Westbound on the NEKM
Title:  Westbound on the NEKM
Description:  The weekday local for the Northeast Kansas & Missouri has departed St Jo MO and is headed back home to Hiawatha KS. TNER GP40 3083 leads NEKM Geep 2167. NEKM took over the former St Joseph & Grand Island line from the UP in 1990 and opearted it for only nine years before selling it back to UP; the portion from Elwood to Hiawatha has subsequently been abandoned.
Photo Date:  9/30/1994  Upload Date: 10/10/2008 9:44:02 PM
Location:  Elwood, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  TNER 3083(GP40) NEKM 2167(GP7u)
Views:  773   Comments: 1
NEKM Power
Title:  NEKM Power
Description:  Two units; probably the entire roster at that time, idle at the Northeast Kansas & Missouri facility in Hiawatha Kansas. TNER 3083, a GP40, is the second unit.
Photo Date:  10/1/1994  Upload Date: 8/8/2010 8:40:16 PM
Location:  Hiawatha, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NEKM 2167(GP7u)
Views:  390   Comments: 0
Around the Curve at Atchison
Title:  Around the Curve at Atchison
Description:  UP SD60M 6282 leads four other units around the corner at Atchison Kansas in October 1994. That's the bridge over the Missouri River in the background; the former MP depot is to the left.
Photo Date:  10/2/1994  Upload Date: 10/25/2008 12:10:31 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 6282(SD60M)
Views:  432   Comments: 0
Westbound from Atchison
Title:  Westbound from Atchison
Description:  Five units approach Shannon KS with an empty coal train; this is the first siding west of Atchison, which is seven miles behind. Power includes a pair of four-axle units, which will be dropped at Falls City for local duty. The train will go into siding at Shannon to wait for Extra 4308 East.
Photo Date:  10/2/1994  Upload Date: 10/31/2008 8:17:16 PM
Location:  Shannon, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 6282(SD60M)
Views:  322   Comments: 1
Eastbound UP grain
Title:  Eastbound UP grain
Description:  Three UP SD40-2s and a GP40 (4308, B4295, 3307, 855) lead a graintrain east past the corn and milo fields of northeastern Kansas on the former MP Falls City sub.
Photo Date:  10/2/1994  Upload Date: 2/1/2008 2:31:46 PM
Location:  Shannon, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 4308(SD40-2)
Views:  341   Comments: 2
Smoot Grain 101
Title:  Smoot Grain 101
Description:  Smoot Grain 101 is an AlCo S1; the former Salina Grain Terminal and City of Prineville (OR) of the same number. Wolcott is located along the UP (MP) KC to Falls City line south of Leavenworth.
Photo Date:  10/6/1994  Upload Date: 10/10/2008 9:41:43 PM
Location:  Wolcott, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SMOOT Grain(S1)
Views:  499   Comments: 1
On the Falls City Sub
Title:  On the Falls City Sub
Description:  A westbound UP freight wheels around a curve at Wolcott KS behind six units. In the distance is Smoot Grain elevator, with its resident AlCo S1.
Photo Date:  10/10/1994  Upload Date: 10/15/2008 9:43:48 PM
Location:  Wolcott, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 9351(C40-8)
Views:  394   Comments: 0
Running Along the Missouri
Title:  Running Along the Missouri
Description:  UP C36-7 9002 leads a train southbound through Leavenworth KS in October 1994
Photo Date:  10/12/1994  Upload Date: 2/16/2011 10:29:20 PM
Location:  Leavenworth, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 9002(C36-7)
Views:  458   Comments: 2
Along the Missouri River
Title:  Along the Missouri River
Description:  UP train NPAS passes the Centennial Bridge at Leavenworth KS enroute Kansas City in October 1994. UP 9002 leads SD40-2 B4279 and 3685.
Photo Date:  10/12/1994  Upload Date: 10/15/2008 9:44:07 PM
Location:  Leavenworth, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 9002(C36-7)
Views:  1037   Comments: 7
Tower Four
Title:  Tower Four
Description:  Two Gateway Western SW1200s pass a closed KCT tower 4 in October 1994. Both of these units are ex KCT themselves; 78 is already remarked, 72 retains its KCT markings for now.
Photo Date:  10/25/1994  Upload Date: 2/9/2008 7:28:51 AM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GWWR 78(SW1200) GWWR 72(SW1200)
Views:  846   Comments: 0
BN EB in KCKS
Title:  BN EB in KCKS
Description:  A BN train sits in the former Frisco yard at Rosedale KS while it waits its turn to head into Kansas City proper. Power is a GP39E, a pair of GP9s and a GATX SD40-2.
Photo Date:  11/25/1994  Upload Date: 3/8/2008 9:34:20 AM
Location:  Rosedale, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BN 2937(GP39E)
Views:  436   Comments: 0
UP Local Power at Atchison
Title:  UP Local Power at Atchison
Description:  UP 206, a B30-7A and GP38-2 2242, both former MP units, sit at Atchison KS in Dec 1994
Photo Date:  12/12/1994  Upload Date: 3/12/2011 8:13:21 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 206(B30-7A) UP 2242(GP38-2)
Views:  318   Comments: 0
Waiting for a New Crew at Pittsburg
Title:  Waiting for a New Crew at Pittsburg
Description:  A loaded KCS coal train awaits its next crew to arrive before departing Pittsburg KS for points south. Power is a trio of SD60s KCS 727, Oakway 9060 and KCS 715.
Photo Date:  1/4/1995  Upload Date: 12/26/2012 6:56:31 PM
Location:  Pittsburg, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  KCS 727(SD60)
Views:  202   Comments: 0
Local power, local color
Title:  Local power, local color
Description:  BN GP39M 2809 idles at Columbus KS while waiting for its next call near an oil distributor's buildings.
Photo Date:  1/4/1995  Upload Date: 1/26/2008 11:24:20 PM
Location:  Columbus, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BN 2809(GP39M)
Views:  506   Comments: 0
MKCX SD45 9532
Title:  MKCX SD45 9532
Description:  Morrison-Knudson SD45 9532 in the snow near the former Rock Island yard in KCKS. It's a former BN and Frisco unit.
Photo Date:  1/7/1995  Upload Date: 8/13/2011 2:58:33 PM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MKCX 9532(SD45)
Views:  532   Comments: 2
Twilight Rails
Title:  Twilight Rails
Description:  These are the former Rock Island/Union Pacific tracks through Wathena KS, headed east towards St. Joseph MO. Their last owner, the NEKM, was sold back to the UP in 1994; they were abandoned in 2004.
Photo Date:  12/27/2004  Upload Date: 1/29/2008 10:16:16 PM
Location:  Wathena, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  433   Comments: 0
Grain movers at rest
Title:  Grain movers at rest
Description:  Agmark's elevator locomotive at Concordia KS is a former UP "SW10", AFIZ 1253. It sits on soggy roadbed with buckets over its stacks while a trio of BNSF GEs await their next train in the background.
Photo Date:  9/6/2006  Upload Date: 5/13/2008 11:12:03 PM
Location:  Concordia, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  AFIZ 1253(SW10)
Views:  509   Comments: 0
Morning in Clifton
Title:  Morning in Clifton
Description:  It's early on an autumn morning in Clifton, a town of about 500 people located in Washington County Kansas. This elevator sits next to the abandoned right of way of the former MP Atchison to Concordia line; this portion was last used by the Kyle RR and pulled up in 2000.
Photo Date:  9/15/2006  Upload Date: 9/5/2009 10:01:40 AM
Location:  Clifton, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  279   Comments: 0
LLPX 2231
Title:  LLPX 2231
Description:  LLPX 2231 on the UP at Atchison KS
Photo Date:  10/9/2006  Upload Date: 8/11/2013 3:08:02 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LLPX 2231(GP38-2)
Views:  125   Comments: 1
Around the Curve at Topeka
Title:  Around the Curve at Topeka
Description:  UP 2456 brings three units around the corner at Topeka KS early on a Sunday morning in 2007.
Photo Date:  5/20/2007  Upload Date: 11/1/2014 6:37:06 PM
Location:  Topeka, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 2456(SD60M)
Views:  206   Comments: 1
UPY 2645
Title:  UPY 2645
Description:  UP GENSET in transit at Topeka, 2007. Ten years later; these don't seem to be living up to their promise.
Photo Date:  5/20/2007  Upload Date: 2/16/2018 8:29:05 PM
Location:  Topeka, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UPY 2645(RP20GE)
Views:  213   Comments: 1
WAMX SD50 5112
Title:  WAMX SD50 5112
Description:  WAMX SD50 5112 in fresh paint at Coffeyville KS in June 2007. It would only last about four years on the road before moving on to Larry's Truck (LTEX) in Ohio.
Photo Date:  6/30/2007  Upload Date: 7/9/2012 7:04:03 AM
Location:  Coffeyville, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 5112(SD50)
Views:  303   Comments: 0
WAMX GP40 4036
Title:  WAMX GP40 4036
Description:  Part of the WAMX menagerie; GP40 4036, a former HELM unit, sitting under the Cherryvale sand tower
Photo Date:  6/30/2007  Upload Date: 7/9/2012 7:04:39 AM
Location:  Cherryvale, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 4036(GP40)
Views:  273   Comments: 0
Dark and stormy day on the K&O
Title:  Dark and stormy day on the K&O
Description:  Kansas & Oklahoma's small facility sits near 'downtown' Cherryvale alongside the former BN/SLSF Wichita line. SD40 WAMX 4103 is at the fuel rack while a pair of former A&O/UP/CNW SD50s idle nearby with a train from either Wichita or Tulsa.
Photo Date:  6/30/2007  Upload Date: 3/22/2008 10:39:02 AM
Location:  Cherryvale, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 4103(SD40) WAMX 5110(SD50)
Views:  578   Comments: 0
GMTX GP38-2 2159
Title:  GMTX GP38-2 2159
Description:  GMTX GP38-2 2159 at the old Katy terminal at Parsons KS
Photo Date:  6/30/2007  Upload Date: 7/9/2012 7:04:57 AM
Location:  Parsons, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMTX 2159(GP38-2)
Views:  194   Comments: 0
Launch the birds!
Title:  Launch the birds!
Description:  An empty UP coal train makes the turn into Atchison KS in July 2007 while a GATX unit works the yard on the next track.
Photo Date:  7/14/2007  Upload Date: 2/6/2008 8:37:11 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6069(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  337   Comments: 1
Westbound Local at Medina
Title:  Westbound Local at Medina
Description:  A pair of GP38-2s run a UP local westbound towards Topeka near Medina KS in 2007.
Photo Date:  11/23/2007  Upload Date: 11/8/2014 8:54:18 AM
Location:  Medina, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1092(GP38-2)
Views:  175   Comments: 2
Waiting for a crew at Ellinwood
Title:  Waiting for a crew at Ellinwood
Description:  A K&O grain train sits on the main at Ellinwood KS with three scruffy-looking WAMX units for power. 4028 is followed by 3819 and 4008. This is former Santa Fe territory, just east of Great Bend.
Photo Date:  11/23/2007  Upload Date: 7/11/2010 9:43:53 AM
Location:  Ellinwood, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WAMX 4028(GP40-2LW)
Views:  241   Comments: 1
Matched Pair in Salina
Title:  Matched Pair in Salina
Description:  A pair of sequentially numbered (3625 trails) Helm GP38s sit in the K&O yard in Salina KS
Photo Date:  11/23/2007  Upload Date: 6/17/2010 10:22:46 PM
Location:  Salina, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HLCX 3626(GP38)
Views:  229   Comments: 0
Abandoned Rails: Kansas
Title:  Abandoned Rails: Kansas
Description:  The trestle and fill are about all that is left of the Santa Fe line between Lyons and Conway Kansas. It was abandoned about 2001.
Photo Date:  12/31/2007  Upload Date: 12/28/2008 6:18:22 PM
Location:  Mitchell, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  285   Comments: 0
Y marks the spot
Title:  Y marks the spot
Description:  Looking west, the yard limit marker is the end of the line at Elwood, KS on tracks that had been used over the years by UP (St Joseph & Grand Island), RI, OKKT and NEKM. Abandoned in 2004 when the UP bought out the NEKM, this route is disconnected in sections for several hundred yards east of here and then runs about two miles to St Joseph via the bridge over the Missouri River. What's left appears to be used largely for car storage now.
Photo Date:  11/27/2008  Upload Date: 11/29/2008 10:14:32 PM
Location:  Elwood, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
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Views:  363   Comments: 0
Kansas Sags
Title:  Kansas Sags
Description:  UP 6578, the DPU for an empty coal train negotiates the surpintine prairie near Willis KS while headed west on the road's Falls City sub.
Photo Date:  11/27/2008  Upload Date: 11/29/2008 10:14:14 PM
Location:  Willis, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 6578(AC44CW)
Views:  233   Comments: 2
Passing the Ghost of the Rock
Title:  Passing the Ghost of the Rock
Description:  Two UP GEs bring an empty coal train westward near Everest Kansas in November 2007. What appears to be a trestle in the background is what remains of the Rock Island's St Joseph to Topeka line, which crossed over the then-MP here. It was abandoned in 1983 after being operated by the OKKT for a short period following Rock Island's 1980 demise.
Photo Date:  11/27/2008  Upload Date: 11/29/2008 10:14:01 PM
Location:  Everest, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5785(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  374   Comments: 2
Working Mill Street Yard
Title:  Working Mill Street Yard
Description:  LLPX 216 works the KCTL/KAW Mill Street Yard on the day before New Years.
Photo Date:  12/31/2008  Upload Date: 1/1/2009 6:47:34 PM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LLPX 216(SW1500)
Views:  276   Comments: 0
Trackmobile in the street
Title:  Trackmobile in the street
Description:  A trackmobile looks rather inconsequential as it shoves a brace of gons at a scrap dealer in Kansas City on the last day of 2008.
Photo Date:  12/31/2008  Upload Date: 1/18/2009 4:32:12 PM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  177   Comments: 0
Time Out in Atchison
Title:  Time Out in Atchison
Description:  A pair of UP GP38-2s sit under the 6th Street bridge in downtown Atchison KS in June 2009. This view is to the west up the former MP Falls City sub. The passenger cars on the left are at the Atchison Rail Museum.
Photo Date:  6/20/2009  Upload Date: 6/21/2009 7:08:36 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 818(GP38-2)
Views:  269   Comments: 0
Working Atchison
Title:  Working Atchison
Description:  Two units switch grain elevators at Atchison KS in June 2009; UP 596 is assisted by a Helm unit. That's the former ATSF freight depot on the right, now a museum.
Photo Date:  6/20/2009  Upload Date: 6/21/2009 7:08:54 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 596(GP38-2)
Views:  304   Comments: 0
K&O tracks, Cheney KS
Title:  K&O tracks, Cheney KS
Description:  Tracks and elevator, K&O at Cheney KS. This is a former ATSF line.
Photo Date:  7/25/2010  Upload Date: 7/25/2010 11:26:23 PM
Location:  Cheney, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
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Views:  240   Comments: 0
Mutilated caboose
Title:  Mutilated caboose
Description:  This caboose sitting on the remains of MP line at Kingman, KS has a hole cut in it for what appears to be side-door surgery. Under the paint you can make it out as the former Northern Pacific 10008 (BN 11340), a 1951-built car out of the NP's Brainerd shop.
Photo Date:  7/25/2010  Upload Date: 7/25/2010 11:26:57 PM
Location:  Kingman, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Roster
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Views:  255   Comments: 0
Former MP depot, Kingman KS
Title:  Former MP depot, Kingman KS
Description:  The MP depot at Kingman, KS.
Photo Date:  7/25/2010  Upload Date: 7/25/2010 11:27:13 PM
Location:  Kingman, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
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Views:  178   Comments: 0
Storm Approaching Pratt
Title:  Storm Approaching Pratt
Description:  A storm approaches Pratt Kansas in July 2010. The tracks along the former ATSF depot are now operated by K&O
Photo Date:  7/25/2010  Upload Date: 7/25/2010 11:27:24 PM
Location:  Pratt, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
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Views:  259   Comments: 1
Farmer's Cooperative Company 1214
Title:  Farmer's Cooperative Company 1214
Description:  FCC SW10 1214, obviously a former UP unit, at Haviland KS.
Photo Date:  7/25/2010  Upload Date: 7/25/2010 11:27:33 PM
Location:  Haviland, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  FCC 1214(SW10)
Views:  305   Comments: 0
FCC herald
Title:  FCC herald
Description:  Farmer's Cooperative Company logo, with what appears to depict oats, milo, wheat and corn.
Photo Date:  7/25/2010  Upload Date: 7/25/2010 11:27:43 PM
Location:  Haviland, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  FCC 1214(SW10)
Views:  245   Comments: 0
Kansas Elevator Unit
Title:  Kansas Elevator Unit
Description:  DCGX 1320, a former BNSF GP7U, sits on a short siding along the highway just west of Ensign KS
Photo Date:  7/26/2010  Upload Date: 7/27/2010 6:40:06 PM
Location:  Ensign, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DCGX 1320(GP7u)
Views:  349   Comments: 0
Pulling Loads at Hugoton
Title:  Pulling Loads at Hugoton
Description:  A quarted of Cimarron Valley units pull cars out of the elevator at Hugoton KS
Photo Date:  7/26/2010  Upload Date: 7/29/2010 9:57:32 PM
Location:  Hugoton, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CVR 3024(GP30)
Views:  642   Comments: 1
Classic Lines
Title:  Classic Lines
Description:  Cimarron valley GP30 3024 works at Hugoton KS
Photo Date:  7/26/2010  Upload Date: 7/29/2010 9:57:50 PM
Location:  Hugoton, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CVR 3024(GP30)
Views:  432   Comments: 0


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