LEFT: UP 5760 East, a coal load out of Wyoming’s Powder River Basin that has just departed Armourdale Yard near Kansas City after changing crews, climbs through the reverse curves of the High Line and onto the High Line Bridge to cross the Kaw River. On the lower deck of the bridge a Kansas City Terminal Railway transfer job brings cars to the Missouri side of the river. BELOW: Just before sunset on June 16, 2011, a CSX local returning from Kentucky to Queensgate Yard in Cincinnati passes beneath an Norfolk Southern manifest on the approach to the Cincinnati Southern Bridge.
Perhaps the best way to communi-
cate the flavor of Midwest railroading is through a collection of “postcards.” Pretend you know nothing whatsoever about the Midwest, and that these post- cards are your first introduction to the region. What are your impressions? Do they match what you really know — or think you know — about the Midwest? You might be pleasantly surprised.
BELOW: On December 5, 2008, a BNSF intermodal train from Chicago rolls west onto the “flyover” as an eastbound Union Pacific coal train coming off the High Line climbs to the level of the Transcon at Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City.
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