MY PHOTO GALLERY OF TRAINS
RAILROADS OF THE WEST PAGE 11
Union Pacific 9203 west passes Saffordville, KS on it's way to Hutchison, ks with trackage rights on BNSF. 9203 is a Dash 8-40C. Santa Fe 653 east passes through Emporia, KS with a pure Santa Fe consist.
UP 8283 east passes through the same location at Emporia, late summer 1998. The train symbol is C-TPKRDR.
BNSF 2648 west, local 31 eases by NR Junction headed into the Emporia yard in the evening hours.
Burlington Northern 2764 west rumbles through NR Junction with a loaded grain train out of Topeka on a different evening.
Amtrak #4 the Southwest Chief hurries its' way to Chicago running very late. Amtrak 57 leads this train. Santa Fe 2874 west approaches Emporia, Ks. Photos by Eric Burris.
On September 5, 6, and 7 1998 the Milwaukee Road 261 pulls the Topeka Railroad Days excursion train to Emporia round trip back to Topeka. The first picture it's sitting at Forbes Field south of Topeka where Railroad Days is held. The second picture is a few miles northeast of Emporia as 261 is headed toward Emporia at about 10:00am. Photo by Eric Burris.
The next few pictures it is passing by near Barclay, Kansas, a small town that is almost nonexistant. We are just east of milepost 89. Photos by Eric Burris
