Look what showed up at Settegast for switching duty at the "hump". Didn't last long in this paint! Became UP 1394 then UPY 1394.

On it's last hurrah.

Smoke seen for miles as this guy left Laramie and was winding through Colores, so I thought "great; UBoats!" Not a GE to be found, though, as the culprit is an NW SD45. When he exited the east e... (more)

Every trip to the canyon meant a hike through it; I looked forward to it every time. The refreshing hike is midway done at this point; always took a long break at this vantage point to catch what... (more)

Running as the second of five westbounds, extra 5705 west has the consist whining in dynamic as it runs for the rack at Belen. After 5 west will be 4 east. Didn't notice the open top auto rack, ... (more)

Very small decals indicate this S4's ownership of Neosho Construction, but very clear reporting marks of Santa Fe subsidiary Illinois Northern shine on.. But alas, this shot is at a scrapyard in ... (more)

Back then the Katy was the least of the photographed lines around Houston; lots was going on with UP/MP merger, and SFF/SP pending merger. The SD40-2s were holding down grain trains at this time.

Quite a refreshing scheme on an otherwise butt-ugly CF7...:-)

Never knew what you'd find at Manchester, but on this day it was just a plain SD40-2. Whoda thunk...

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)

Sad sight for a GE fan as this once "elegant" lady sits stored at Salt Lake City.

A little er, "convincing" to the employee resulted in the previously front coupled kodachrome to magically become un-front coupled. Hell, what else were we going to spend that hard earned money o... (more)

Santa Fe's GP7 and GP9 rebuilds, though as numerous and buggy as mosquitos, nonetheless were slimly represented in kodachrome colors. So when Dallas bud Tim Jones called me up and said "...get yo... (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....

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)