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Rich Varner's Collection
 
5/19/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Rich Varner
Dates:1/1/1976 - 1/1/2019
Album Info:These pictures are all scanned from prints. I have several older prints that I have not scanned or added to this album yet.
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LMX #8509 with gray nose and number boards.
Title:  LMX #8509 with gray nose and number boards.
Description:  Scanned from a print given to me from T. Stolte. Last engine on a southbound general freight at Illinois Ave. in St. Joe.
Photo Date:  2/28/1988  Upload Date: 8/19/2023 9:51:39 PM
Location:  St. Joseph, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  LMX 8509(B39-8E)
Views:  38   Comments: 0
EMDX #794
Title:  EMDX #794
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Setting at the BN/SOO Line terminal.
Photo Date:  4/15/1988  Upload Date: 3/21/2023 2:58:45 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  EMDX 794(GP38-2)
Views:  59   Comments: 0
LMX #8554
Title:  LMX #8554
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Setting at BN's Murray yard engine terminal at North K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  5/8/1988  Upload Date: 8/20/2023 10:20:53 AM
Location:  North Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  LMX 8554(B39-8E)
Views:  41   Comments: 0
Maine Central #600
Title:  Maine Central #600
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Spliced between NS engines on a westbound freight thru Sheffield Jct. in K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  7/3/1988  Upload Date: 5/9/2024 8:49:31 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  MEC 600(SD40)
Views:  14   Comments: 0
LMX #8549
Title:  LMX #8549
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Setting at BN's "Murray" yard engine terminal in North K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  8/7/1988  Upload Date: 8/20/2023 10:17:31 AM
Location:  North Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  LMX 8549(B39-8E)
Views:  38   Comments: 0
LMX #8593
Title:  LMX #8593
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Taken early in the AM, on the start of a day of railfanning, setting in BN's Murray yard engine terminal in North K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  10/1/1988  Upload Date: 8/19/2023 3:21:29 PM
Location:  North Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  LMX 8593(B39-8E)
Views:  30   Comments: 0
Central Michigan RR (CMGN) #8803
Title:  Central Michigan RR (CMGN) #8803
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Good looking, clean engine, setting at the KCS/Soo yard in KC, probably recently rebuilt as GP38AC by Mid-America Car Co.
Photo Date:  10/13/1988  Upload Date: 11/29/2023 10:39:11 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CMGN 8803(GP38AC)
Views:  29   Comments: 0
Central Michigan RR (CMGN) #8804
Title:  Central Michigan RR (CMGN) #8804
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Good looking, clean engine, setting at the KCS/Soo yard in KC, probably recently rebuilt as GP38AC by Mid-America Car Co.
Photo Date:  10/13/1988  Upload Date: 11/29/2023 10:39:55 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CMGN 8804(GP38AC)
Views:  39   Comments: 0
Columbia Terminal (CT) #1
Title:  Columbia Terminal (CT) #1
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Setting at the Columbia Terminal engine facility.
Photo Date:  10/13/1988  Upload Date: 11/30/2023 3:23:50 PM
Location:  Columbia, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CT 1(SW1200) COLT 1(SW1200)
Views:  33   Comments: 0
GATX #3730
Title:  GATX #3730
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Freshly painted setting at Mid-America Car Co. at Kansas City, Mo.
Photo Date:  11/19/1988  Upload Date: 3/2/2024 9:18:05 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GATX 3730(GP38)
Views:  29   Comments: 0
DM&IR RR. #155
Title:  DM&IR RR. #155
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Setting at BN's Murray yard in North Kansas City, Mo.
Photo Date:  11/27/1988  Upload Date: 12/31/2023 8:39:49 PM
Location:  North Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  DMIR 155(SD9)
Views:  29   Comments: 0
EMDX #789
Title:  EMDX #789
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Setting at Mid-America Car Co. in K.C., Mo. Taken thru the chain link fence, hence the blur on the right bottom corner. :-)
Photo Date:  11/27/1988  Upload Date: 1/4/2024 8:03:01 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  EMDX 789(GP38-2)
Views:  33   Comments: 0
EMDX #742
Title:  EMDX #742
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe.
Photo Date:  12/15/1988  Upload Date: 3/21/2023 2:56:57 PM
Location:  St. Joseph, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  EMDX 742(GP38-2)
Views:  79   Comments: 0
BM #200
Title:  BM #200
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Setting at Mid-America Car Co. at K.C., Mo. with several other BM engines.
Photo Date:  1/3/1989  Upload Date: 5/9/2024 8:41:08 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BM 200(GP38-2)
Views:  3   Comments: 0
BM #202
Title:  BM #202
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Setting at Mid-America Car Co. at K.C., Mo. with several other BM engines.
Photo Date:  1/3/1989  Upload Date: 5/9/2024 8:41:59 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BM 202(GP38-2)
Views:  12   Comments: 0
BM #204
Title:  BM #204
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Setting at Mid-America Car Co. at K.C., Mo. with several other BM engines.
Photo Date:  1/3/1989  Upload Date: 5/9/2024 8:42:44 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BM 204(GP38-2)
Views:  15   Comments: 0
BM #206
Title:  BM #206
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Setting at Mid-America Car Co. at K.C., Mo. with several other BM engines. Newly outshopped GATX #3733 directly behind it.
Photo Date:  1/3/1989  Upload Date: 5/9/2024 8:44:29 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BM 206(GP38-2)
Views:  9   Comments: 0
BM #209
Title:  BM #209
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Setting at Mid-America Car Co. at K.C., Mo. with several other BM engines.
Photo Date:  1/3/1989  Upload Date: 5/9/2024 8:46:34 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BM 209(GP38-2)
Views:  10   Comments: 0
BM #210
Title:  BM #210
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Setting at Mid-America Car Co. at K.C., Mo. with several other BM engines.
Photo Date:  1/3/1989  Upload Date: 5/9/2024 8:47:14 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BM 210(GP38-2)
Views:  10   Comments: 0
GATX #3733
Title:  GATX #3733
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Freshly painted setting at Mid-America Car Co. at Kansas City, Mo.
Photo Date:  1/14/1989  Upload Date: 3/2/2024 9:20:04 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GATX 3733(GP40)
Views:  20   Comments: 0
BM #205
Title:  BM #205
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Setting at Mid-America Car Co. at K.C., Mo. with several other BM engines.
Photo Date:  2/12/1989  Upload Date: 5/9/2024 8:43:37 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BM 205(GP38-2)
Views:  7   Comments: 0
BM #207
Title:  BM #207
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Taken thru the chain link fence. Setting at Mid-America Car Co. at K.C., Mo. with several other BM engines.
Photo Date:  2/12/1989  Upload Date: 5/9/2024 8:45:42 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BM 207(GP38-2)
Views:  10   Comments: 0
BM #211
Title:  BM #211
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Setting at Mid-America Car Co. in K.C., Mo. with several other BM engines.
Photo Date:  3/13/1989  Upload Date: 5/9/2024 8:48:19 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BM 211(GP38-2)
Views:  15   Comments: 0
EMDX #3147
Title:  EMDX #3147
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. On a freight going thru Sheffield Jct., KC, Mo.
Photo Date:  4/16/1989  Upload Date: 3/21/2023 10:58:46 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  EMDX 3147(SD45)
Views:  70   Comments: 0
GECX #8002
Title:  GECX #8002
Description:  Scanned from a print given to me from T. Stolte. Setting at the Cotton Belt Armourdale yard in K.C., Ks.
Photo Date:  4/16/1989  Upload Date: 3/14/2024 2:14:37 PM
Location:  Kansas City, KS
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GECX 8002(B40-8)
Views:  30   Comments: 0
Oakway #9062
Title:  Oakway #9062
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Setting at BN's Murray yard engine terminal.
Photo Date:  4/16/1989  Upload Date: 8/19/2023 2:51:46 PM
Location:  North Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  EMDX 9062(SD60)
Views:  28   Comments: 0
TTX #200 Caboose
Title:  TTX #200 Caboose
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Spliced in the middle of a train crossing the diamonds at Sheffield Jct. K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  4/16/1989  Upload Date: 1/25/2023 11:18:55 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  67   Comments: 0
EMDX #8300
Title:  EMDX #8300
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Setting at the KCS/SOO engine terminal.
Photo Date:  5/18/1989  Upload Date: 1/15/2024 5:46:45 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  EMDX 8300(SD60)
Views:  37   Comments: 0
EMDX #828
Title:  EMDX #828
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Early picture of EMDX #828 still in faded Conrail paint. Setting at Mid-America Car Co. in K.C., Mo., awaiting its new paint/refurbishment.
Photo Date:  7/1/1989  Upload Date: 1/6/2024 6:38:38 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  EMDX 828(GP38-2)
Views:  35   Comments: 0
LMX #8550
Title:  LMX #8550
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Setting at BN's Murray yard engine terminal at North K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  7/2/1989  Upload Date: 8/20/2023 10:19:05 AM
Location:  North Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  LMX 8550(B39-8E)
Views:  36   Comments: 0
EMDX #8301
Title:  EMDX #8301
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Setting at the KCS/SOO "Knoche" yard engine terminal with KCS #713 behind it.
Photo Date:  7/22/1989  Upload Date: 1/15/2024 5:47:40 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  EMDX 8301(SD60)
Views:  45   Comments: 0
GATX #3731
Title:  GATX #3731
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Setting at Mid-America Car Co. at K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  7/23/1989  Upload Date: 3/2/2024 9:19:02 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GATX 3731(GP38M)
Views:  14   Comments: 0
GE Railcar Repair
Title:  GE Railcar Repair
Description:  Scanned from a print I took while passing thru Texarkana back in 8/14/1989. I found this GE owned SW1. On the cab, in yellow lettering, it says "Railcar Repair Texarkana". I must of saw no locomotive number as none was documented on this picture.
Photo Date:  8/14/1989  Upload Date: 3/14/2024 2:49:01 PM
Location:  Texarkana, TX
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GENX SW1(SW1)
Views:  12   Comments: 1
GTW #5926
Title:  GTW #5926
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Setting, along with sister engine GTW #6411, at the BN "Murray" yard engine terminal in North K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  9/8/1989  Upload Date: 5/2/2024 9:53:19 PM
Location:  North Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GTW 5926(SD40)
Views:  12   Comments: 0
GTW #6411
Title:  GTW #6411
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Setting, with sister GTW engine #5926, at BN's "Murray" yard engine terminal in North K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  9/8/1989  Upload Date: 5/2/2024 10:26:16 PM
Location:  North Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GTW 6411(GP40-2)
Views:  9   Comments: 0
CFCA #76 (Co-operative Farm Chemicals Association)
Title:  CFCA #76 (Co-operative Farm Chemicals Association)
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. I believe this to be an S3? Setting at Mid-America Car Co. shops on this date. I believe CFCA was "Co-operative Farm Chemicals Association" of Lawrence, Ks., believed to be taken over by Farmland Industries on, or around 2004? #76 is spray painted on the cab, it almost looks like #33 on the front, side number boards? I could not find any other picture of this engine on this site that might help.
Photo Date:  9/17/1989  Upload Date: 11/17/2023 5:27:20 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CFCA 76(S3)
Views:  59   Comments: 0
EMDX #117
Title:  EMDX #117
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Taken at the EMD open house.
Photo Date:  9/17/1989  Upload Date: 3/21/2023 2:51:44 PM
Location:  McCook, IL
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  EMDX 117(SW1001)
Views:  74   Comments: 0
EMDX #5740
Title:  EMDX #5740
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Wes took this picture during the EMD open house in McCook.
Photo Date:  9/17/1989  Upload Date: 1/6/2024 7:03:04 PM
Location:  McCook, IL
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  EMDX 5740(SD45X)
Views:  50   Comments: 0
EMDX #828
Title:  EMDX #828
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. #828 is fresh out of Mid-America Car Co. in K.C., Mo., trailing engine on a train pulling out of the KCS yard.
Photo Date:  9/17/1989  Upload Date: 1/6/2024 6:39:27 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  EMDX 828(GP38-2) EMDX 746(GP38-2)
Views:  43   Comments: 0
EMDX #837
Title:  EMDX #837
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Taken at the EMD open house.
Photo Date:  9/17/1989  Upload Date: 3/21/2023 3:01:56 PM
Location:  McCook, IL
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  EMDX 837(GP38-2)
Views:  45   Comments: 0
GN "Hustle Muscle" #400
Title:  GN "Hustle Muscle" #400
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Wes attended the EMD open house in McCook on this date.
Photo Date:  9/17/1989  Upload Date: 5/3/2024 12:45:27 PM
Location:  McCook, IL
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GN 400(SD45)
Views:  16   Comments: 0
Georgetown RR. #9051
Title:  Georgetown RR. #9051
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. "Owned by GATX LEASING CORP" stenciled on the battery box cover. Setting at the KCS/SOO yard in K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  9/30/1989  Upload Date: 3/19/2024 12:46:08 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GRR 9051(GP20)
Views:  21   Comments: 0
Georgetown RR. #9053
Title:  Georgetown RR. #9053
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Fresh out of the Mid-America Car Co. shop in K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  9/30/1989  Upload Date: 3/19/2024 12:47:14 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GRR 9053(GP20)
Views:  24   Comments: 0
LMX #8509 with red nose and number boards.
Title:  LMX #8509 with red nose and number boards.
Description:  Scanned from a print taken by my friend Wes Rupe. Trails a sister engine on a southbound BN TOFC at Lake Blvd. crossing, in the BN yard.
Photo Date:  10/1/1989  Upload Date: 8/19/2023 9:52:40 PM
Location:  St. Joseph, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  LMX 8509(B39-8E)
Views:  51   Comments: 0
Alaska RR #1508
Title:  Alaska RR #1508
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Setting with Rock Island Bay Window Caboose #17085.
Photo Date:  10/2/1989  Upload Date: 10/1/2023 3:24:05 PM
Location:  Falcon, CO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ARR 1508(F7A)
Views:  50   Comments: 0
Cadillac & Lake City #48
Title:  Cadillac & Lake City #48
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Should reporting marks be CLK or CLCR? I remember taking this picture but have no additional details about this engine or what was setting with it.
Photo Date:  10/2/1989  Upload Date: 10/19/2023 9:04:20 PM
Location:  Falcon, CO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CLK 48(CF7) CLCR 48(CF7)
Views:  54   Comments: 0
Cargill (CGAX) #12
Title:  Cargill (CGAX) #12
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Switching cars in between Davenport and Buffalo, Iowa. Believe it to be an S2? I could not find any other picture of this engine on this site.
Photo Date:  11/26/1989  Upload Date: 11/5/2023 1:42:15 PM
Location:  Buffalo, IA
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CGAX 12(S2) CARGILL 12(S2)
Views:  27   Comments: 0
Davenport, Rock Island & Northwestern RR. #109
Title:  Davenport, Rock Island & Northwestern RR. #109
Description:  Scanned from a print I took.
Photo Date:  11/26/1989  Upload Date: 12/30/2023 8:21:08 PM
Location:  Bettendorf, IA
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  DRI 109(SW1200)
Views:  29   Comments: 0
LMX #8535
Title:  LMX #8535
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Leads a BN TOFC train thru Broadway Jct. in downtown K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  1/2/1990  Upload Date: 8/19/2023 10:53:05 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  LMX 8535(B39-8E)
Views:  44   Comments: 0
LMX #8575
Title:  LMX #8575
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Leading a south/west BN TOFC train thru Broadway Jct. in K.C., Mo.
Photo Date:  1/2/1990  Upload Date: 8/20/2023 1:46:18 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  LMX 8575(B39-8E)
Views:  23   Comments: 0


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