in Burlington Northern cascade green and wearing the original Burlington Northern & Santa Fe herald on the nose, made an ap- pearance (top of page 55). I had somehow thought that Lawrence,
Kan., was somewhere in the middle of the state, but I had noticed the previous day that it was only 30 miles or so outside Kansas City. I had always wanted to shoot a train at Don Ball Curve in Lawrence, and since we had already done so well in Kansas City, we decided to head west. After a brief stop at Holliday, we found ourselves at the Lawrence train station, now a visitors’ cen- ter. The late Don Ball, Jr., one of my favorite railroad writers and photographers, had grown up in Lawrence and taken many pho- tos at the curve just east of the station; the curve now informally bears his name. The UP cooperated by sending many trains past the towering grain silos along the curve, and since the sun was only getting better as the afternoon progressed, we spent the rest of the day in Lawrence (bottom of page 55). That evening we were joined by the Brits
we had met earlier at the West Bottoms at Kevin’s father, Jim EuDaly’s house in Kansas City where we spent the evening running trains on his incredible O-Scale Chesapeake & Ohio layout. The one railroad we hadn't gotten our fill
of during the trip was Kansas City South- ern, so day three in K.C. found us heading south along the KCS main line in search of trains. We finally stopped at Amsterdam, and soon we had a northbound to chase back towards the city. After a spirited chase north, the train met a southbound at Grandview so we
chased back south a short distance. At this point Kevin had to get back to work at White River Productions so we bid farewell. Bruce, Frank, and I proceeded into down- town Kansas City to get an overview shot of Union Station from the park across the street, then headed back to 29th Street where a dead-end bridge gave us a nice overview of the bridges at Santa Fe Junc- tion as well as State Line Junction. The lo- cation is directly adjacent to the former Kansas City Terminal roundhouse, which has been nicely restored as office space, and we were able to work that into our shots (page 56). Just as we were ready to leave, we heard
the switches throw beneath our vantage point. Knowing that when switches throw there is usually a train movement shortly thereafter, we stuck around and saw an Am- trak train pass through State Line Junction and come beneath us. Westbound Amtrak trains terminate just east of our location at Union Station, but the trains need to be turned on the wye at State Line between runs so they can head back east, so the dead- heading Amtrak train passed beneath us, then reversed direction to head up the west leg of the wye to Santa Fe Junction. Now it was time to leave Kansas City and
start working our way east. The city had been great to us, and a lot of great photos were taken. Lawrence would prove to be the western-most point of the two-week trip, and everything from here on out would be “heading home” (if you con- sider heading Chicago and then reversing to Cedar Rapids as “heading home”).
Railfan & Railroad Advertising Index for October 2012 A
A&R Productions ...................................................55 C
Cole Publications...................................................18 Conway Scenic Railroad........................................19
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Daylight Prints........................................................53 Dale W. Diacont.......................................................6 Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad .....................19
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Elkhorn Inn.............................................................19 Erie Lackawanna Historical Society.............48,52,53
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Four Ways West Publishing...................................12 G
Gaithersburg Train Show.........................................8 Gohmann and
Associates.............................Cover II Golden Spike Enterprises......................................55 Greenhill Station Productions ................................13
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Heimberger House.................................................10 Herron Rail Services..............................................15 Highball Productions................................................5
I Illinois Railway Museum ........................................19
Izaak Walton Inn....................................................10 K
Kentucky Railway Museum....................................19 Kingsley Inn ...........................................................19
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Lumberjack Steam Train........................................19 M
McMillan Publications ............................................18 Melvin Photos ........................................................14 Merrill Publishing Associates.................................55 Monticello Railway Museum ..................................19 Morning Sun Books ...............................................16 Museum, Tourist Line and Dinner Train Directory.19
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Napa Valley Wine Train.........................................19 National Railway Historical Society .......................10 Nevada Northern Railroad &
Museum.........Cover IV North Shore Scenic Railroad .................................18
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Plets Express.........................................................12 R
Railcom..................................................................55 Railfan & Railroad..................................................53
Railroadbooks.biz ..................................................55
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S&S Tours ...............................................................8 Greg Scholl Video Productions..............................14 Seashore Trolley Museum.....................................51 Signature Press .......................................................5 Sonrisa Publications .............................................6,8 Southern Pacific Historical Society........................10 Steam Train Videos ...............................................17 Sunshine Networks................................................56
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TRP........................................................................11 TTX Company........................................................17 Three Rivers Rambler............................................19 Trackside Prints.....................................................54
Trainorders.com.....................................................50 TrainsShipsPlanes.................................................54 TrainWeb ...............................................................52 Transit Gloria Mundi ..............................................51
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Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway...............................54 White River Productions ..........................................9 Whitewater Valley Railroad....................................19
Y Yard Goat Images..................................................14 57
Revelation Video......................................................7 Ron’s Books..............................................6,Cover III RonRail Pictures....................................................16
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