Something you don't see on Sherman Hill and environs: green foliage! After all the snowdrifts and permafrost have melted, there is a very short time when the Spring attempts to take hold, but al... (more)

For those who know the location (Cheyenne, WY; Crow Creek) and the railroad well (the UP in this photograph does not exist today), the caption is simple: "Hello, Sherman....next stop; Rawlins!". ... (more)

Diehard photographers of the OLD UP will recognize this seldom seen side of Sherman Hill, the west slope so-to-speak. Late afternoons in the summer presented somewhat of a degree of difficulty get... (more)

All activity is at a standstill at Tower 55 as a loaded rock train off the Duncan sub makes a run for the summit from the Trinity River bottoms. One of the "platforms and a CSX Dash-944CW claw th... (more)

Last shooting light of the day finds an empty rock job back to Chico at milepost 594, between Hicks and Newark, TX. Hadn't realized that there are still Dash 9s in SP paint out there....

Last light of the day finds the 527 west roaring under the overpass at Heman, running hot for a meet at Quinlan.

PTRA's North yard was the spot to find the most unusual and eclectic group of misfit engines that the railroads of Houston could scrounge up. Lashups/consists of every combination were the norm, ... (more)

Slide shows "ENPI ?"; unsure of train ID. Remembering well the days of hazy sun all day hindering a clear sky; I saw this guy from my rocky perch above the last unit waaaay down the valley, and w... (more)

On the ex-Santa Fe, waiting on the south side of Ponder was the northbound Z that would be the BNSF participant later on at Metro, waiting hanging out the south switch, due to the 4 crossings that... (more)

After getting spiked by a transfer job from Alliance, and letting a Z train off the Wichita Falls sub, a BNSF loaded ethanol train led by FXE 4661 gets underway, crossing over to MT1 for a southbo... (more)

Already up to track speed, the fruit reefers are leaving one super-elevated curve and entering another. Making haste for North Platte, the HF is about to go under US30.

Somebody call the police: I'm being held hostage and they are forcing me to submit this ugly@@s attempt at an F7 rebuild. Seriously, back in those days of being overrun by CF7s, my partner in Sou... (more)

In a swan song of glory, today's 7 unit HCX runs around the UP HOSA with a MP yellow SD40 and a blue MP SD40-2 at the last siding south of Fort Worth. The UP HOSA was re-crewing at the siding and... (more)

Unsure of the date, but we heard this power set bring a train off the Conroe district as we were zooming up and down the Santa Fe between Bellville and Temple, so we planned accordingly to get bac... (more)

My buds tell me that I took this photo, and it IS stamped 'Photography: Barry R. Byington', so I guess I did take it. But someone must have had a gun to my head at the time...4 ATSF geeps? You go... (more)