UP Central and Southern Coal Routes
Powder River Basin Joint Line
Bridger Junction to Donkey Creek Junction/Gillette
UP Coal Routes
Shawnee Junction to Horse Creek/Kiowa/South Morrill
Horse Creek/South Morrill to O'Fallons
O'Fallons to Gibbon Junction
Coal trains for Chicago and beyond via the original UP
and the former Chicago & Northwestern continue east on the
Overland Route.
Those headed for Nebraska Public Power, the Jeffrey Energy Center, and points
beyond Kansas City take the Marysville line:
Gibbon Junction to Topeka
Topeka to Kansas City (West Yard)
West Yard, past Terminal Junction to Sheffield and Rock Creek Junction
Coal trains headed for St. Louis and points east thereof
take the line east across Missouri:
Rock Creek Junction to Jefferson City (River Line)
Jefferson City to Iron Mountain Junction
Iron Mountain Junction to Grand Avenue (St. Louis)
Grand Avenue to Gratiot (St. Louis)
Gratiot to Q Tower
Coal trains headed south from Kansas City can take
either the former MoPac line or the former M-K-T line, which intersect at Paola,
KS, and then either of those lines south of Paola to Wagoner, OK, whence the
M-K-T line is taken the rest of the way to Fort Worth:
Kansas City (Sheffield) to Paola (former MoPac)
Terminal Junction to State Line Junction/29th Street (Kansas City)
Kansas City (29th Street) to Olathe (former M-K-T)
Olathe to Paola (former M-K-T)
Paola to Wagoner (former M-K-T)
Paola to Coffeyville (former MoPac)
Coffeyville to Wagoner
Wagoner/Muskogee to Denison
Denison to Choctaw Crossing (Fort Worth)
Choctaw Crossing to Tower 55