AT&SF train number twelve, the Chicagoan, is departing Emporia Kansas at 10 MPH on March 4th 1939. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
A pair of BNSF SD40-2s – 1773 (formerly BNSF 6958, originally ATSF 5213 … was it obvious?) and 1646 (ex-BNSF 6765, née-ATSF 5106) – idle in the Emporia Yard, awaiting their next call to dut... (more)
One of ten specially painted 25th Anniversary units leads a Hutchinson, KS to Galesburg, IL freight through NR Junction on the east side of Emporia
BNSF 4297 leads a unit oil train under the signal bridge just west of Emporia, Kansas.
On the shortest day of the year an eastbound intermodal train rumbles through downtown Emporia. This train is a new run through service between Los Angeles and CSX’s Northwest Ohio Intermodal Te... (more)
A single Dash 9 has two Boeing 737 fuselages in tow a few miles east of Emporia.
Four Evolution Series GE motors lead an Alliance, TX to Willow Springs, IL Z train through downtown Emporia.
The NS Nickel Plate Road heritage unit trails behind a BNSF C4 and a rebuilt AC44C6M on a New York to Los Angeles intermodal train as it slowly makes its way into town to be fueled and inspected.
A Roger Puta Photograph
EMPORIA KS May 2 1982 -- Santa Fe GP39-2 3612 and seven other units, includint the smoke-belching U23B 6308, head into the sun under a dawn sky.
EMPORIA KS June 1976 -- Santa Fe SD40 5003, SD45 5567 and SD40 class unit 5000 await a new crew as the rear end crew of another train boards their caboose.
The late Roger Puta's slide was scanned and posted by Marty Bernard.
Santa Fe’s eastbound Mail Train No. 8 was leaving Emporia, Kansas on April 11, 1965.
A pair of EMDs lead a Denver to Kansas City manifest eastbound out of Emporia.
An empty grain train eases through NR Junction on the east side of Emporia where the line through Topeka and Lawrence branches off of the Emporia Sub.
