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Southern Kansas Railfanning Action in Wichita and Mulvane, Kansas, Featuring BN Green SD40-2 1693!

Hello everyone, I hope you all had a great Labor Day Weekend! Today's video is my sixth and final video of my railfanning trip out in Kansas, and features a handful of trains from the Southern Kansas region. On the final two days of my Kansas Railfanning trip, I visited both the big city and the small town. As one might guess, the big city was Wichita and the small town was Mulvane. Downtown Wichita features one of the best, if not the best, railroad museum in all of Kansas; the Great Plains Transportation Museum. Open every Saturday, the museum hosts a small but mighty collection of railfanning equipment, most notably ATSF Northern 4-8-4 3768, ATSF SDFP45 93, BN Switcher locomotive 421, and a handful of passenger and freight cars. The best part about the Great Plains Transportation Museum is its direct proximity to the train track. In the center of Wichita, the two Class I railroads run on an elevated overpass that sees about 35 to 40 trains per day. Additionally, the regional railroads Kansas and Oklahoma (K&O) and the South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad use both lines to service local industries, particularly agricultural industries, throughout the region. The BNSF line through here and in Mulvane is the Arkansas City Subdivision, the BNSF main from Mulvane up to Newton, Kansas. BNSF uses the Arkansas City Subdivision for directional running for all eastbound trains on the transcon and northbound trains from Oklahoma. Almost all BNSF trains are eastbounds with only a couple westbounds per day. Total traffic on the Arkansas City Subdivision is about 25 to 30 trains per day. The Union Pacific line is the former Rock Island mainline from Wichita on down to Oklahoma, and sees about eight to ten trains per day. SKOL and K&O trains come through here on an as-needed basis, with each shortline seeing at least one train per day. This railfanning adventure started off in downtown Wichita with one train from each railroad and a light-engine move from the K&O. The BNSF train was intermodal while the Union Pacific train was a manifest with one of the best mixtures of fallen flag rolling stock I have ever seen. This UP manifest consisted of rare Missouri Pacific (MoPac) hopper cars still in great shape, and even better, a rare Western Pacific covered hopper, also in great shape. When it comes to fallen flags, Western Pacific is considered to be the rarest of the rare, especially since the WP was the first railroad merged into the Union Pacific conglomerate when UP started to expand in the early 1980s. UP manifest trains are a rather underrated aspect of that mighty railroad as for the second time this week I saw a train with great reminders of days gone by in the railroad industry. The action at the museum was not very busy at all, and the local railfans told me traffic was more likely to pick up in the evening as the majority of trains in town come through between 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. So, after exploring the rest of the museum, I went back to my hotel and took an afternoon power nap before venturing on down to Mulvane. The town of Mulvane is one also rich in railroad history, and features a small Atchinson, Topeka, and Santa Fe station in downtown and an old ATSF caboose next to it. Mulvane is the spot where the Arkansas City Subdivision meets the Emporia Subdivision, and all eastbound trains on the Emporia Subdivision (aka, the Southern Transcon) switch onto the Arkansas City on their way eastward to Newton via Wichita. On my way down to Mulvane, I unfortunately missed a manifest train heading north to Wichita, but fortunately there was plenty of other action. Once I arrived in Mulvane, the first train was a surprise South Kansas and Oklahoma train rushing southward while passing an intermodal train with rear-DPUs on it. Three of the next four trains here in Mulvane happened to be intermodal trains as well, with the fifth train in the three hours I spent in Mulvane was a tanker train and the only non-intermodal train of the five I saw in Mulvane. I gotta say, this town is an underrated spot and one certainly worthwhile. On my way up back to Wichita, I saw the ultimate catch of the day, a Burlington Northern SD40-2, number 1693, leading the southbound local train to Mulvane. I had to improvise and catch it off the side of the road, but it was one magnificent catch. Seeing the iconic BN Green unit truly tied the trip together as I had seen an ATSF Bluebonnet in Emporia and a handful of BNSF Warbonnets throughout this trip. Now, I can also say I saw a Burlington Northern unit in action in the year 2024. A great ending to a memorable trip. Though not quite the busiest place to watch trains, Mulvane and Wichita do offer a decent amount of action. More importantly, both towns are a good showing of railroad history and are more than worth a visit if you are ever passing through Kansas and looking to do some railfanning. Thanks for watching, and I hope you enjoy the video! -N&W475.