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The West Bottoms of Kansas City is one of the most target-rich areas for photography anywhere. A BNSF Railway transfer of Schneider trailers works its way through the West Bottoms on June 13, 2012 (above). Note Old Union Station Tower behind the trailers. Don Ball Curve in Lawrence, Kan., makes for a relaxing place to view Union Pacific (below). the vanatge point is from the platform of the former passenger station, niow a visitors’ center.
south, Kansas City packs a lot into about six miles of traveling. It didn’t take long to find locomotives moving around Knoche Yard on the Kansas City Southern, but the first highlight came when we caught a Union Pa- cific coal train with the city skyline over- head (top of page 54). It was then on to Santa Fe Junction, an incredible three-level crossing of trackage where we soon saw Kansas City Terminal at ground level, Union Pacific on the middle level, and BNSF Railway soaring overhead, all straddling the Missouri-Kansas border. Around the corner from Santa Fe Junction near 29th Street we spotted an abandoned brewery that we thought would make a nice backdrop for a photo, and it wasn’t long be- fore we were rewarded with a BNSF train with plenty of power on the head end. We then went off in search of a Union Pa-
cific ballast train, then caught a BNSF train at Holliday, Kan. From there it was back in- to the city to Union Station, where we watched trains from the Freight House Bridge (catching BNSF, UP and Amtrak) and enjoying some Kansas City barbecue in
the freight house. After lunch we headed to the West Bottoms, one of the most photo- genic urban railroad locations in the coun- try. We shot the tower at Old Union Station and then caught a Union Pacific train amidst all the neat brick warehouses of the Bottoms. We spent some more time in the West Bottoms, catching the Kansas City Termi- nal's yellow “bananas” (a pair of former Southern Pacific GP35R’s now working for KCT in a bright yellow paint scheme) pulling a train near Old Union Station Tow- er (bottom of page 54) and then watched a BNSF switcher set work the small 19th Street Yard. We returned to downtown for the sweet
late light at Union Station, where the pa- rade of BNSF and Union Pacific continued, along with Kansas City Southern. We spent our time on the Pennway Street bridge, which gives a great overview of the Union Station complex and the iconic Western Au- to building. We finished off our first day in Kansas City with a chase of a BNSF coal train to Lenexa, Kan.
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