Beginning the long grind beginning just west of Medicine Bow that will lead up to Lookout, about to pass the dinosaur fossil beds just to the northeast of this spot.

Once tough and proud sentry of the Preque Isle docks, one of the tough guys now sits in vain waiting for another call at the Eagle Mills shop.

Idling impatiently waiting their turn at the tower, the crew doesn't realize that they have a trophy from their run up north; a bird of prey secured nicely beside the coupler.

At the WGRF slide "conventions", everybody had a table for their culls that they would try to get a few bucks gas money out of; they called it the "dime box"; all slides were a dime (duh!). Well,... (more)

If you're not from Texas, it's pronounced MEX-ee-yah; if you're from Texas, it's pronounced muh-HAY-yah. Nice high speed chase from Fort Worth to get the kodachrome on the point.

2nd OWY unit down, this coal load was down to a crawl through Glendo, but he made it down to Guernsey unassisted.

Smithers Lake (Houston Lighting & Power) coal trains normally ran with the usual BN U30C/C30-7/SD40-2 combos with like SD40-2/C30-7s of the Santa Fe mixed in. So when SD60Ms ventured this far, it... (more)

A quick run to the mechanical foreman who was a friend of mine got these hostlers stopped in their tracks on the north end of the diesel shop; at this time this was the last U-boat in the eagle sc... (more)

Chasing this guy from Birmingham south to get ahead of him throuh afternoon traffic and construction was a challenge, as I had NO IDEA where I was going: totally blind on this chase. Just happene... (more)

Gaylord was the center of my consulting career during this time, and my first month of encounters with the D&M were around Grayling-Gaylord-Alpena. Threatening skies herald the first significant s... (more)

In it's death throes, the 6910 exits the tunnel and gets ready to set dynamics for the drop off the edge down into Red Buttes and Laramie. The Big Jacks' 15 minutes of fame is about up by this tim... (more)

Back in it's infancy, the PR Basin just saw the entrance of CNW, and the Bill yard was in service but still under construction. Work trains were mainly held by Geeps, so when this 6 axle showed u... (more)

The last of the mohicans; I'm pretty sure. At least in the Houston area. If I remember correctly (it's been almost 25 years!) this was the last SW to work Houston; not sure if it was the last on... (more)

Ya'll laugh at me for my comments about clouds and cloud gods; this is what a normal summer's morning looks like in southeast Texas. We had to leave Houston to get to Bellville NO LATER than 9AM;... (more)

This train usually did not make it up this far this soon in the evening; this is the last shooting light of the day, and remember being a little surprised at this train being this far; must not ha... (more)