4th of July Weekend at the Movies

Amtrak's Heartland Flyer P42 "Big Game Train" Genesis arrives in Topeka, Kansas, on the point of the Southwest Chief.  189 pulls college football fans to The Big Game between Oklahoma and Texas.

Union Pacific empty coal train crests an uphill grade at the Neosho Road crossing west of Atchison, Kansas.

TPR:

Thanks for posting the video for the Southwest Chief. I always enjoy watching videos of passenger trains, particularly Hi-Levels.

Here is a very nice HO layout with some patriotic music.

Layout and video both very well done...

On my way home from work Wednesday night I got this MBTA Geep with a coach and a couple of engines in tow.

a little shot of the home layout

Portland Rose, I like your Southwest Chief shots.  That is our train headed anywhere from Arizona.  But it is scheduled into Topeka at 5:18am, so if I am lucky and am awake but then, I get to see the lights of the city and the station, particularly if we are traveling to York as we did this last April.  It and Lawrence are the first "big city" lights you see after an overnight passing through small towns in Colorado and western Kansas.

A question, at the end of the video, you show a shop building with what looks like the ends of many passenger cars.  Is this an Amtrak service facility or are there some other cars being stored there?

Thanks for all the likes on the Southwest Chief.  I will post another I shot under next week's "Weekend At The Movies" of the Southwest Chief arriving and departing Topeka under stormswept skies.  I was lucky to get the above video with Amtrak 189 from the Heartland Flyer in the lead with a Federal Railroad Administration car in the consist.  The area of the Topeka station has the large Santa Fe shops and a large abandoned Santa Fe freight house (opposite the side of the train from which this video was shot).  I noticed the passenger car ends, too, at the Topeka shops.  I do not know why they are there.  My best guess is that they may be stored or serviced as part of BNSF's corporate fleet.   Topeka had a large Santa Fe office building that was acquired by the State of Kansas for its offices.  BNSF built a new large office building in downtown Topeka.

video's running trains at Gassaway WV with the train club yesterday.

Here two video's from today.