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By:Rick Morgan
Dates:1/1/1974 - 12/31/2007
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MP GP38-2 2046
Title:  MP GP38-2 2046
Description:  MP GP38-2 2046 in consist at Osawatomie KS. Delivered in 1972 as MP 895; it would later move to GTW.
Photo Date:  1/8/1976  Upload Date: 10/4/2013 6:47:47 PM
Location:  Osawatomie, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MP 2046(GP38-2)
Views:  604   Comments: 0
Endless prairie
Title:  Endless prairie
Description:  There are places where the prairie seems to go on forever. This is an MP train headed west on the Wichita line; it's about 25 degrees out and there's a stiff wind. A pair of GP38-2s and three GP7s pull it west.
Photo Date:  1/8/1976  Upload Date: 1/13/2008 3:27:24 PM
Location:  Rosalia, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
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Views:  534   Comments: 1
MP westbound freight
Title:  MP westbound freight
Description:  It's noon in eastern Kansas and MP freight heads westward behind an SD40, three GP7s and a GP9.
Photo Date:  1/8/1976  Upload Date: 1/13/2008 3:28:38 PM
Location:  Osawatomie, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 3007(SD40)
Views:  1024   Comments: 3
UP GP30 823
Title:  UP GP30 823
Description:  UP GP30 823 sits at Marysville KS in August 1976
Photo Date:  8/20/1976  Upload Date: 12/20/2008 10:21:46 PM
Location:  Marysville, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 823(GP30)
Views:  714   Comments: 1
The Rock at work
Title:  The Rock at work
Description:  It's a pleasant summer evejing in Salina Kansas as the local from Herrington works grain cars. Two rebuilt GP7s do the honors this night.
Photo Date:  8/15/1977  Upload Date: 2/9/2008 12:31:57 PM
Location:  Salina, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CRIP 4468(GP7R)
Views:  1116   Comments: 2
CNW in Kansas
Title:  CNW in Kansas
Description:  When the Chicago North Western took over the CGW in 1968 it inherited that road's stretch of trackage rights over the MP from Leavenworth to Kansas City. Here SD40 884 leads a train off the Missouri River Bridge and across the MP Falls City Sub. It will make a hard left turn and take the MP the rest of the way to KC. 884 is followed by an SD40-2 and a pair of GP38-2s.
Photo Date:  1/22/1981  Upload Date: 4/26/2009 2:27:51 PM
Location:  Leavenworth, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  CNW 884(SD40)
Views:  946   Comments: 1
BN SW1000 436
Title:  BN SW1000 436
Description:  BN SW1000 436 works the former CB&Q trackage in Leavenworth KS in March 1982
Photo Date:  3/19/1982  Upload Date: 12/25/2009 9:52:33 PM
Location:  Leavenworth, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  BN 436(SW1000)
Views:  600   Comments: 1
Working downtown
Title:  Working downtown
Description:  BN ran a small piece of former CB&Q trackage in Leavenworth KS until 1987 when the line from E. Leavenworth MO was abandoned along with the bridge that crossed the Missouri River. The elevator is gone as well now. Here SW1000 436 works the yard at roughly 4th and Choctaw in March 1982. The view looks almost due east, straight to the bridge.
Photo Date:  3/19/1982  Upload Date: 2/27/2008 6:53:16 AM
Location:  Leavenworth, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  InCab,Yard
Locomotives:  BN 436(SW1000)
Views:  852   Comments: 0
MP trio
Title:  MP trio
Description:  A handsome threesome of MP GP38-2s are seen at Atchison KS on Christmas Eve 1982. This site had a large roundhouse at one time.
Photo Date:  12/24/1982  Upload Date: 2/10/2008 4:05:47 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MP 2313(GP38-2)
Views:  845   Comments: 0
BN Working Leavenworth
Title:  BN Working Leavenworth
Description:  BN SW1000 435 shoves cars along Choctaw St in downtown Leavenworth KS late in 1982. The former CB&Q/CGW freight station sits behind.
Photo Date:  12/26/1982  Upload Date: 11/9/2013 6:15:46 PM
Location:  Leavenworth, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BN 435(SW1000)
Views:  466   Comments: 1
Johnson County Industrial GE 80T
Title:  Johnson County Industrial GE 80T
Description:  Johnson County (KS) Industrial Ry operates the trackage on the former Naval Air Station Olathe. This unnumbered GE 80T was their power through 1992 when an SW8 replaced it. It's the former Army 7891.
Photo Date:  6/30/1983  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 7:57:20 PM
Location:  Gardner, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  JCI (NONE)(80Tonner)
Views:  592   Comments: 0
Santa Fe station, Leavenworth KS
Title:  Santa Fe station, Leavenworth KS
Description:  The Santa Fe's Leavenworth KS depot, while still in use by the railroad. ATSF ceased service to the city in 1988.
Photo Date:  7/3/1983  Upload Date: 2/13/2009 10:19:19 PM
Location:  Leavenworth, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Station
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Views:  546   Comments: 0
ATSF GP38 3546
Title:  ATSF GP38 3546
Description:  ATSF GP38 3546 sits by the Augusta KS depot in the summer of 1983
Photo Date:  7/6/1983  Upload Date: 8/7/2010 8:40:16 AM
Location:  Augusta, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 3546(GP38)
Views:  628   Comments: 1
ATSF 6388
Title:  ATSF 6388
Description:  Four Santa Fe units work a local freight eastbound at Winfield in July 1983. (ATSF 6388, 3635, 6347 3659)
Photo Date:  7/6/1983  Upload Date: 1/18/2008 7:00:30 PM
Location:  Winfield, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 6388(B23-7)
Views:  796   Comments: 0
MP GP38-2 2191
Title:  MP GP38-2 2191
Description:  MOPAC GP38-2 2191 in blue at Atchison KS
Photo Date:  12/24/1985  Upload Date: 11/17/2012 4:25:58 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
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Views:  335   Comments: 0
Local Power at Atchison
Title:  Local Power at Atchison
Description:  A pair of MP GP38-2s at Atchison KS in December 1985
Photo Date:  12/24/1985  Upload Date: 11/17/2012 4:26:18 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MP 2171(GP38-2) MP 2175(GP38-2)
Views:  362   Comments: 0
Missouri River bridge
Title:  Missouri River bridge
Description:  This bridge over the Missouri River was opened in%1894 and used by the RI, CGW/CNW and CB&Q/BN through 1987, when it was dismantled. This view looks east towards Missouri. The straight tracks head into Leavenworth, the curved section to the sight was used by the CGW/CNW to access the MP main to Kansas City. Up through 1949 the CGW had an engine facility and wye on the other side of the river, at Stillings (Kirmeyer). This was as far south as their 2-10-4 Texas types came; weight restrictions and the curve kept them from going any further, the road typically using 2-8-2s to get their freight to KC.
Photo Date:  12/26/1985  Upload Date: 1/31/2008 8:05:28 PM
Location:  Leavenworth, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Bridge
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Views:  766   Comments: 1
MP GP38-2 2242
Title:  MP GP38-2 2242
Description:  MP GP38-2 2242 at Atchison KS; a former RI unit.
Photo Date:  12/29/1985  Upload Date: 10/5/2012 4:15:42 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MP 2242(GP38-2)
Views:  361   Comments: 0
MP GP15-1 1643
Title:  MP GP15-1 1643
Description:  MP GP15-1 1643 at Atchison KS
Photo Date:  12/29/1985  Upload Date: 10/5/2012 4:15:24 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MP 1643(GP15-1)
Views:  358   Comments: 0
MP GP40 645 in Armour Yellow
Title:  MP GP40 645 in Armour Yellow
Description:  MP never bought a new GP40 but got a number of former'Rock Island and WP units in the mid-80s. 645 was built as RI 4717; it would end up with M&NA.
Photo Date:  12/31/1985  Upload Date: 2/8/2014 3:49:04 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MP 645(GP40)
Views:  497   Comments: 0
Faded Eagles
Title:  Faded Eagles
Description:  Two MP GP38-2s sit at the Atchison, KS engine facility in Dec 1985.
Photo Date:  12/31/1985  Upload Date: 2/10/2008 4:05:37 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MP 2242(GP38-2)
Views:  455   Comments: 0
Leavenworth Bridge
Title:  Leavenworth Bridge
Description:  The west end of the Leavenworth Bridge over the Missouri River. Used by the Rock Island, CGW- CB&Q and those that followed, the structure was demolished in 1987.
Photo Date:  2/24/1986  Upload Date: 4/28/2011 7:12:44 PM
Location:  Leavenworth, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
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Views:  550   Comments: 0
Yikes Stripes
Title:  Yikes Stripes
Description:  A Katy GP7- MP15AC duo switch the south end of the road's Kansas City yard in March 1986.
Photo Date:  3/5/1986  Upload Date: 12/11/2009 6:56:40 PM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MKT 114(GP7) MKT 57(MP15AC)
Views:  1020   Comments: 1
MKT YARD
Title:  MKT YARD
Description:  Two Katy units idle in the Kansas City yard in March 1986; 188 is a GP40, 342 a former ICG GP38
Photo Date:  3/5/1986  Upload Date: 1/31/2008 7:29:13 PM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MKT 188(GP40)
Views:  926   Comments: 1
UP local
Title:  UP local
Description:  A UP local train runs through Atchison Kansas during the transition period when you could still find units painted in MP blue.
Photo Date:  3/6/1986  Upload Date: 2/10/2008 4:05:29 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MP 2254(GP38-2)
Views:  668   Comments: 0
UP Westbound Through Atchison
Title:  UP Westbound Through Atchison
Description:  A pair of SD40-2s run a westbound UP freight through Atchison KS on the last day of 1986.
Photo Date:  12/31/1986  Upload Date: 12/19/2012 7:36:30 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3268(SD40-2) MP 3101(SD40-2)
Views:  476   Comments: 0
Diamonds No More
Title:  Diamonds No More
Description:  It's 1987 and the CNW line across the Missouri River is being abandoned in favor of the ex-RI "Spine Line". MP has already cut the diamonds out on the curve that the CNW and CGW used to turn trains onto the MOP for the final lap to KC. The other track will still be used by the BN for a few months to serve the last few customers it has in Leavenworth before it too is abandoned. The bridge and tracks will all be gone by Christmas.
Photo Date:  2/19/1987  Upload Date: 6/2/2009 9:17:33 PM
Location:  Leavenworth, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
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Views:  546   Comments: 0
MP Blue at Atchison
Title:  MP Blue at Atchison
Description:  Several MP units sit in the engine area at Atchison KS. The MP had its roundhouse at this location for many years. Only after posting this picture did I realize I'd shot this GP-38-2 ten years prior as a Rock Island unit.
Photo Date:  2/19/1987  Upload Date: 3/22/2013 6:55:29 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MP 2276(GP38-2) MP 4613(B23-7)
Views:  454   Comments: 0
MKT GP38 303
Title:  MKT GP38 303
Description:  Katy GP38 303 in Kansas City KS, March 1987
Photo Date:  3/5/1987  Upload Date: 12/6/2008 9:09:22 AM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MKT 303(GP38)
Views:  1097   Comments: 1
Working the South Ladder
Title:  Working the South Ladder
Description:  Two Katy units, GP7 118 and MP15AC 56, work the yard's south ladder in KCKS in March 1987
Photo Date:  3/5/1987  Upload Date: 12/6/2008 9:09:31 AM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MKT 118(GP7) MKT 56(MP15AC)
Views:  912   Comments: 1
Working Kansas City Yard
Title:  Working Kansas City Yard
Description:  MKT GP7 118 works the west ladder at the Kansas City yard.
Photo Date:  3/5/1987  Upload Date: 2/17/2012 6:31:21 PM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MKT 118(GP7)
Views:  499   Comments: 1
BN Atchison Local
Title:  BN Atchison Local
Description:  BN GP9 1960, a former CB&Q unit, leads the road's Atchison KS local into town in March 1986.
Photo Date:  3/6/1987  Upload Date: 11/5/2008 9:33:41 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BN 1960(GP9)
Views:  618   Comments: 1
GP38-2s in Atchison
Title:  GP38-2s in Atchison
Description:  MP 2254 and UP 2274 bring a local freight through downtown Atchison in March 1987.
Photo Date:  3/6/1987  Upload Date: 4/28/2012 4:28:47 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MP 2254(GP38-2)
Views:  330   Comments: 1
Locals at Atchison
Title:  Locals at Atchison
Description:  A UP local comes around the curve in downtown Atchison while the BN's train out of St Jo watches to the left.
Photo Date:  3/6/1987  Upload Date: 4/28/2012 4:28:36 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BN 1980(GP9) MP 2254(GP38-2)
Views:  585   Comments: 1
Over the Missouri
Title:  Over the Missouri
Description:  BN's Atchison Local crosses the Missouri River at Atchison in March 1987 behind GP9 1960. The local was operated as a turn out of St Jo, running down to Armour where it left the main for the short trip to Atchison.
Photo Date:  3/6/1987  Upload Date: 1/26/2008 2:30:00 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  BN 1960(GP9)
Views:  588   Comments: 2
Working Atchison
Title:  Working Atchison
Description:  BN's Atchison Local, out of St Joseph, works the trackage in downtown Atchison in June 1987
Photo Date:  6/3/1987  Upload Date: 10/31/2010 11:01:10 AM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BN 1960(GP9)
Views:  434   Comments: 0
Crossing the Missouri at Atchison
Title:  Crossing the Missouri at Atchison
Description:  Five Santa Fe units (three GP39-2s, and single GP30/GP35) led by 3434 bring the road's Saint Jo local across the Missouri River at Atchison Kansas on its way back to Topeka in November 1988.
Photo Date:  11/26/1988  Upload Date: 8/4/2010 8:01:24 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 3434(GP39-2u)
Views:  488   Comments: 0
Three units
Title:  Three units
Description:  A trio of Santa Fe units sit in Abilene KS in July 1993 awaiting their next local call. GP35 2873, GP39-2 3419 and B23-7 6368.
Photo Date:  7/16/1993  Upload Date: 3/12/2008 9:26:17 PM
Location:  Abilene, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 2873(GP35u)
Views:  437   Comments: 0
Running Through Paola
Title:  Running Through Paola
Description:  Santa Fe SD40-2 5127 leads a pair of BN B30-7ABs on a grain train through Paola KS in July 1993. This is the spring/summer of the "big flood" and this may well be an ATSF divert over the BN's former SLSF main.
Photo Date:  7/23/1993  Upload Date: 10/28/2008 8:58:05 PM
Location:  Paola, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ATSF 5127(SD40-2)
Views:  648   Comments: 2
Flood diverts on the BN
Title:  Flood diverts on the BN
Description:  The mid-west floods of 1993 led to a lot of odd movements as roads moved trains to dry trackage. Here two NS units wait on the BN (ex SLSF) line at La Cygne KS while a UP coal train approaches.
Photo Date:  7/23/1993  Upload Date: 12/21/2008 6:30:01 PM
Location:  La Cygne, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 8535(C36-7)
Views:  443   Comments: 0
JCAC 1992
Title:  JCAC 1992
Description:  JCAC 1992 is the former CN 7151, a 1951-build SW8. It was acquired in 1992 and replaced a GE 80T. The road works the New Century Air Center, the former Johnson County Airport and NAS Olathe.
Photo Date:  7/23/1993  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 7:57:51 PM
Location:  Gardner, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  JCAC 1992(SW8)
Views:  560   Comments: 2
The Floods of '93
Title:  The Floods of '93
Description:  The midwest floods of 1993 were some of the worst in recent memory. This is the UP (MP) mainline at the south end of Wolcott siding between Kansas City and Leavenworth KS.
Photo Date:  7/24/1993  Upload Date: 2/13/2009 10:18:59 PM
Location:  Wolcott, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
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Views:  415   Comments: 1
Local Power at Abilene
Title:  Local Power at Abilene
Description:  Two UP units, GP40 858 and GP38-2 2239 idle at Abilene KS in the summer of '93.
Photo Date:  7/26/1993  Upload Date: 11/26/2014 10:27:05 PM
Location:  Abilene, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 858(GP40)
Views:  319   Comments: 0
Kyle U-Boats
Title:  Kyle U-Boats
Description:  A trio of former BN U30Cs sit at the Kyle RR's Goodland yard in the summer of 1993. You couldn't guess from the blue skies but the photographer had to dodge a tornado in nearby Oakley to get to Goodland for the night.
Photo Date:  7/26/1993  Upload Date: 2/4/2008 10:21:26 PM
Location:  Goodland, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  KYLE 5820(U30C)
Views:  696   Comments: 0
Kyle yard
Title:  Kyle yard
Description:  The Kyle RR's Goodland KS yard is shown in the summer of 1993; GP28 1826 sits with a GP20 while a former BN U30C ides behind
Photo Date:  7/26/1993  Upload Date: 1/31/2008 7:29:27 PM
Location:  Goodland, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  KYLE 1826(GP28)
Views:  1355   Comments: 2
Bridge Goes Here
Title:  Bridge Goes Here
Description:  The Leavenworth Terminal Bridge was opened in 1894 and operated through May 1987, when the last BN train used it. By Christmas the structure was completely dismantled. Built for the Rock Island and Burlington Route, the structure was also used by the CGW. The Rock Island pulled out of town in 1939 while the BN and CNW followed in time. The signal mast points toward the Missouri side, which was called Kirmeyer by the CGW. The small depot has since been restored.
Photo Date:  9/1/1994  Upload Date: 4/26/2009 2:27:33 PM
Location:  Leavenworth, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
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Views:  440   Comments: 0
UP GP40 858
Title:  UP GP40 858
Description:  UP GP40 858 at Atchison
Photo Date:  9/14/1994  Upload Date: 11/26/2014 10:25:21 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 858(GP40)
Views:  441   Comments: 0
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: 
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Views:  919   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:  392   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:  222   Comments: 0


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