A BC Rail C40-8M is the lead unit on BNSF train H-BRCKCK1-14A tied down on Main Track 1 of the NS Kansas City District-BNSF Brookfield Sub at Block 224 by 10th St. while NS train D70 with an Ex-BN SD60M on the point holds on Main Track 2 while waiting to be called down to the signal by the BNSF Ustick Disptatcher.
The H-BRCKCK1-14A arrived here at Block 224 not too long after 0600 after making an overnight run across the BNSF Brookfield Sub. The crew died here at 1230, and the train was never given a new crew until around midnight.
NS train D70 got here around 1400, and it wasn't around 1700 that the BNSF Ustick Dispatcher gave them permission to come down to the signal and head across the Hannibal Bridge. D70 is bringing autoracks across town from NS's Voltz Yard near Birmingham, MO to BNSF's Argentine Yard in Kansas City, KS, and it's using power off the BNSF transfer to NS's Avondale Yard from the previous night. 9/15/17.
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