TGNX loads with nicely matched Pumpkins hold the siding for three westbounds at Kirkland at 1222. Hopefully they won't be there as long as the rib-sided boxcar still waiting for a load of grain h... (more)
With lush green crops to the south and typical arrid, brushy northwest Texas terrain to the north, an recrewed eastbound Q train tops a short hill that diverges from mostly parallel US 287, which ... (more)
Coasting into town on a dispatcher-commanded approach for a signal maintainer, BNSF 4941 East makes a neat sight, entirely trailers with not one flat or well empty. Time - 0957.
After being held for a few minutes for a signal maintainer to 'fix' crossing gates to no avail, a Z continues east at 1023, still having to be flagged across the crossing at restricted speed.
New AC GEVO 6131 heads a UP run-through empty coal train meeting a holed-up Z at Memphis at 1422. This was the second of three westbounds the Z had to wait for at Memphis. So much for priority o... (more)