“By far the busiest carriers at Kansas City Union Station were the Missouri Pacific and the Santa Fe. The Santa Fe had 10 scheduled trains per day passing through the station, and yet another pair originating/terminating here. By June 1970, Santa Fe’s offering had been trimmed considerably, and would end completely in less than a year. On June 5th, Larry Thomas caught a pair of Santa Fe trains preparing to depart Union Station. First is train #211 with U30CG #8004 leading. Larry Thomas

“Rails Around Missouri” will be in Kansas City June 15-16 for the Mid Continent NMRA meet at the Overland Park International Trade Center. In honor of that, this week’s selection is from Chapter Four: Kansas City and Surrounding Area. “Rails Around Missouri is a new 224-page, hard cover book containing over 500 all-color photos like the one above. Your copy is available for $47.95 plus shipping and will come signed by the author. Choose between the KCS or Frisco cover (contents identical).

Below are a few of the shots submitted to us for “Rails Around Missouri”, but not selected for publication. Both are by Bill Gibson, both at Kansas City’s Union Station in December, 1967.

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