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Butch Getz's Collection
 
5/1/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Butch Getz
Dates:5/27/2023 - 5/27/2023
Album Info:This day would start with Santa Fe Junction, then on up to St Joe, Atchison, Lawrence, and return along the St Joe BNSF sub
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We meet again....
Title:  We meet again....
Description:  When we first arrived here, there was nothing in sight. After talking with another railfan for a bit, this train appeared, with motors we had seen the previous day.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 11:43:14 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Signal,Track,Action
Locomotives:  UP 1765(SD40N) UP 1958(SD40N)
Views:  58   Comments: 1
From the other direction....
Title:  From the other direction....
Description:  Now things are rolling. This manifest was the next train thru SF Junction.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 11:44:00 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7949(ES44C4)
Views:  35   Comments: 1
KCS 4449
Title:  KCS 4449
Description:  One of the acquired former BNSF units.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 11:44:41 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  KCS 4449(C44-9W)
Views:  161   Comments: 1
KCSM 4892
Title:  KCSM 4892
Description:  Roster.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 11:45:32 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  KCSM 4892(ES44AC)
Views:  37   Comments: 1
Now we are really rolling....
Title:  Now we are really rolling....
Description:  This all covered hopper train will shoot past the one on the other track.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 11:46:23 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6323(ES44AC)
Views:  48   Comments: 1
Overhead...
Title:  Overhead...
Description:  KCS duo as the meat in a BNSF-Ferromex sandwich.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 11:47:24 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  KCS 4820(ES44AC) KCS 4887(ES44AC)
Views:  54   Comments: 1
FXE 4057
Title:  FXE 4057
Description:  Roster.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 11:49:31 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  FXE 4057(SD70ACe)
Views:  35   Comments: 0
Another covered hopper train....
Title:  Another covered hopper train....
Description:  About to cross the diamond at SF Junction.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 11:50:13 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Signal,Track,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7473(ES44DC)
Views:  47   Comments: 1
Going on by....
Title:  Going on by....
Description:  H2's with a swoosh leader motor on past us.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 11:50:53 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4350(C44-9W) BNSF 4053(C44-9W)
Views:  40   Comments: 1
Another overhead....
Title:  Another overhead....
Description:  Our second UP train of the morning, an overhead intermodal.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 11:51:29 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7529(ES44AC) UP 6716(AC44CW)
Views:  70   Comments: 1
One more covered hopper train
Title:  One more covered hopper train
Description:  The grain trains have been rolling thru SF Junction this morning.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 11:54:50 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 3675(ET44C4)
Views:  62   Comments: 1
BNSF 7576
Title:  BNSF 7576
Description:  DPU on the covered hopper train thru SF Junction.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 11:55:27 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7576(ES44DC)
Views:  45   Comments: 1
While waiting at Waldron....
Title:  While waiting at Waldron....
Description:  The skydivers, with their attached rookies, gave us a bit of entertainment with their screams!
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 11:57:43 AM
Location:  Waldron, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives: 
Views:  37   Comments: 1
Was in a wreck this morning...
Title:  Was in a wreck this morning...
Description:  A FedEx truck apparently tried to beat the train. This is what the front of the train looked like after the encounter. Since they still had one ditch light, and no other mechanical damage, they could proceed at track speed, per the scanner chatter!
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 12:00:17 PM
Location:  Farley, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Bridge,Wreck,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7059(ES44C4)
Views:  46   Comments: 1
I have been on hold for awhile...
Title:  I have been on hold for awhile...
Description:  This train had to split itself, due to an earlier accident ahead of it....
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 12:00:56 PM
Location:  Farley, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:  BNSF 3906(ET44C4)
Views:  42   Comments: 1
The accident scene.....long shot.
Title:  The accident scene.....long shot.
Description:  Tow truck is preparing to retrieve the damaged FedEx truck from a close encounter with a train!!!!
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 12:01:39 PM
Location:  Farley, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Wreck
Locomotives: 
Views:  45   Comments: 1
The floodgates have opened.
Title:  The floodgates have opened.
Description:  With the accident scene now cleared, trains can roll. This would be the first one thru.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 12:02:12 PM
Location:  Farley, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5955(ES44AC)
Views:  56   Comments: 1
Wasting no time time.....
Title:  Wasting no time time.....
Description:  Manifest blasts thru Weston, now that things are open.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 12:02:51 PM
Location:  Weston, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6948(ES44C4)
Views:  44   Comments: 1
Not quite a meet.
Title:  Not quite a meet.
Description:  The coal drag in the distance, waits to get into the power plant. The covered coal gon train, now the cattle feed train, is about to rush past.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 12:05:30 PM
Location:  Weston, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  48   Comments: 2
BNSF 7198
Title:  BNSF 7198
Description:  DPU, as it pushes the cattle feed train on.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 12:05:59 PM
Location:  Weston, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7198(ES44C4)
Views:  64   Comments: 1
UP 1642
Title:  UP 1642
Description:  Roster.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 12:06:45 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 1642(SD40N)
Views:  66   Comments: 1
UP 4971
Title:  UP 4971
Description:  Roster.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 12:07:10 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 4971(SD70M)
Views:  43   Comments: 1
Finished for the day....
Title:  Finished for the day....
Description:  SD 70 M duo heads for the yard office.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 12:07:39 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4972(SD70M) UP 5045(SD70M)
Views:  37   Comments: 1
BNSF 2919
Title:  BNSF 2919
Description:  Remote unit working the small yard.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 12:12:26 PM
Location:  Saint Joseph, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 2919(GP39E)
Views:  106   Comments: 1
BNSF 5849
Title:  BNSF 5849
Description:  Another coal drag races it's way down the St Joe sub.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 12:11:06 PM
Location:  Saint Joseph, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5849(ES44AC)
Views:  47   Comments: 1
BNSF 6996
Title:  BNSF 6996
Description:  Trains from the other direction are now beginning to roll.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 12:18:04 PM
Location:  Weston, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6996(ES44C4)
Views:  51   Comments: 1
BNSF 6408
Title:  BNSF 6408
Description:  Nice wide open spot for a long shot.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 12:18:55 PM
Location:  Farley, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6408(ES44AC)
Views:  46   Comments: 1
BNSF 4117
Title:  BNSF 4117
Description:  DPU on another grain train.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 12:19:28 PM
Location:  Farley, MO
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4117(C44-9W)
Views:  32   Comments: 1
Don Ball curve...
Title:  Don Ball curve...
Description:  Depot at the curve.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 12:20:39 PM
Location:  Lawrence, KS
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Station
Locomotives: 
Views:  47   Comments: 1
UP trio thru the curve.....
Title:  UP trio thru the curve.....
Description:  Sun was not favorable for a head on shot. Had to settle for this.
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 12:21:37 PM
Location:  Lawrence, KS
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  UP 6935(AC4460CW) UP 3859(SD70M) UP 8105(AC45CCTE)
Views:  81   Comments: 1
Lawrence Amtrak...
Title:  Lawrence Amtrak...
Description:  We had a high green here. BNSF track, but no train, until we got to the other side of the river, and heard one!
Photo Date:  5/27/2023  Upload Date: 6/8/2023 12:22:13 PM
Location:  Lawrence, KS
Author:  Butch Getz
Categories:  Station
Locomotives: 
Views:  58   Comments: 1


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