The bridge at Ginger Blue

The newly minted CPKC Railway, a 20,000-mile system combining Canadian Pacific (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS), sent me to Kansas City in late May 2024 to capture KCS motive power before its identity vanished under the unified railroad’s new paint. Videographers Kevin Gilliam and Mike Noonkester and I spent at day chasing this CPKC train 200 miles south from Kansas City, winding up the day with this photo at the Elk River bridge at the oddly named hamlet of Ginger Blue, Mo.