@Maersk.146 Great!

@Romet.Lyytsepp Thanks!

KCS 4784 South and BNSF 7530 West peek out from behind things in Kansas City, Missouri. 9FEB2020

BNSF 3800 West with a Canadian oil train. Hardin, MO, 8FEB2020

For us in Central Europe, high speed trains are still kind of a spectacle... Not to mention such legendary ones as the French TGV! I spotted this one while waiting for my train in Strasbourg:

@greclev Excellent! Nice scene in the station.

KCS Railway milepost 2, with KCMO in the background. 8 Feb 2020

BNSF 7026 East passes KC Union Station,
which is decorated with Chiefs victory banners

BNSF 6944 West is assisted by two overheat-damaged C44-9W's in consist. 16Feb2020

Assorted views of NS 1830 East, #111, at Hardin, MO, 16Feb2020

Assorted views of Amtrak #4 with extra power and equipment being shuffled. 22Feb2020

NS 7623 and 1211 approach a small concrete bridge at Henrietta, MO with #29M. 7Mar20

BNSF 6905 East pulls an entire train of empty turbine blade flats. Hardin, MO 7Mar2020

@tzhs FTTX 882280 Flat for carrying truck frames
(these are Ford F-150 or Transit Van frames)

Experiment with your camera!

EMDX demo power (SD70ACe-T4) at KCS Knoche Yard, KCMO 15Mar2020

@Maersk.146 Great photos as always!
Btw, is EMD unable to sell these new demo locos? As I understand, major US railroads don't need new locos at the moment and there has been some reliability problems with new EMD's?

@Romet.Lyytsepp Thanks! Most large US railroads are parking hundreds, if not thousands, of locos due to the downturn in business and the curse of PSR. However, railroads still need to update their fleets periodically, so US builders supply demo units to the railroads for extensive testing under everyday load and operational conditions as a prelude to any future purchases. I’ve heard that the EMD T4 demo units have had a lot of failures out in the road, but do not know if EMD is finding solutions to the problems.

Another view of the new KCS Safety-themed ES44AC. KCMO 21Mar2020

UP 7019 adds some DPU horsepower to a westbound on BNSF. Carrollton, MO 21Mar2020

BNSF 3901 at MAC, Kansas City, MO. 21Mar2020

AMTK 132 passes by with #4 at Fleming, MO. 27Mar2020

UP 6651, a rebuilt AC4400CW, now it is called a C44ACM, Palemon, MO. 29Mar2020

Great photos Keith!

Here is a Norfolk Southern foreign power on a BNSF grainer going through Caliente horseshoe curve on 01 Oct 2019:

Operail C30-M 1559 "Rudolf" at Ülemiste freight yard 01 Apr 2020:
This loco was built in 1979, then used as Conrail 6580, later Norfolk Southern 8098. In 2002 loco was exported to Estonia where it served until 2008. Taken back to service in 2019 after major overhaul.
Upgrading works were done at Tapa workshops, only frame and bogies remain from original loco. New bodywork is by CZ Loco and diesel engine by CAT.

@Romet.Lyytsepp Thanks! And great views of your C30-M 1559! That is a substantial modification, and it is good to see these locos being utilized in some manner instead of being scrapped.

@Maersk.146 Yes I agree with you, It’s good to see these locos back in service again. There were total of 19 C30-7A locos exported to Estonia, initially they were used in freight service only about 5 years. In 2008 all of them were put to storage, due to downturn in freight traffic. It was more economically reasonable to use only C36-7i locos going forward, since they are more powerful and can be used in solo to haul long freight train.

At the moment there are plans to rebuild 7 out of 19 C30-7Ai locos, but if there is demand from other countries they might build more. Now one of them is rented and being tested in Ukraine.

Repaired NS bridge over Grand River, Brunswick, MO 27Mar2020

NS Track Inspection vehicle at Wakenda siding (MO), 27Mar2020 - BNSF abundant power 28Mar2020

Two freight trains meeting at Montebello on 29 Oct 2018:

Greenwood Ave railroad crossing:

@Romet.Lyytsepp Excellent! A photo-eye-style shifted-load detector. BNSF uses trip-wires on its detectors in Missouri.

@Maersk.146 Good that you point it out - it is indeed an optical loading gauge sensor on last pic.
Here in Estonia we have similar sensors and also x-ray devices on border crossing points.

Some photos taken at Western America Railroad Museum, located next to Barstow Harvey House (17 Oct 2018):

@Romet.Lyytsepp Great pix! So that's where the "Beep" (1460) went; glad they didn't scrap it.
Here it was in 1983 at Cleburne, TX, and 1995, at Kansas City, KS.

@Maersk.146 Wow nice pics Is this some kind of prototype locomotive?

@Romet.Lyytsepp Thanks! I think it might have been, but may have simply been a way to use up some spare EMD parts in a railroad shop conversion from a Baldwin VO-1000 to a Geep in 1970 (hence: Beep, or, officially: SWBLW). It was indeed the only example of its kind - no more were converted in this way.

@Maersk.146 Ok. High hood design reminds me of Fairbanks-Morse locos with OP engine

@Romet.Lyytsepp Yes, those were very cool.

@Maersk.146 Fun fact - in Latvia and some other ex-USSR countries they are still using locos with two-stroke OP diesel engines. These are class 2TE10M and 2TE10U locos. They were Soviet copy of Faribanks-Morse engine design. And they made these locos until 1990s!

Massive Barstow yard on 17 Oct 2018:

New yard

Old yard

There is a hill in the middle of two yards - great place to watch trains

@Romet.Lyytsepp - Regarding the O.P. engine design; I believe that engine type was originally used in submarines (or ships), and adapted for use in rail locos. They may have been reliable, but the US market was so dominated by GM-EMD (with government meddling mixed in) that the other manufacturers were gradually driven out. I've read that the FM locos could pull very well, as did Alco and Baldwin products (the latter two still have examples in use by smaller railroads, long after the builders went out of business).

NS 8103, the N&W heritage unit, leads #224 at Buist Road in Fleming, MO. 6Apr2020

BNSF 6299 East rides Main 1 with mixed freight for Galesburg, IL. Palemon, MO 6Apr2020

BNSF 9317 West leads a 640-axle, 148-car mixed freight mortgage-lifter to KC. 8Apr2020