Exiting the tunnel with little smoke but intense aroma, the University of Nebraska Cheerleader Special heads west. All jokes aside (and there are many, some unprintable), the CLS [California Live... (more)

As if to say 'move over and let me lead!', the Centennial as the second unit still makes the train as the swift VAN idles down from Sherman summit to Dale Jct. You could hear trains on the Harrim... (more)

Starting to smell Temple in the air, the crew in another in the hordes of Smithers Lake trains makes a run for the Brazos River bridge and Cameron, with a deadheading crew as paid passengers. By ... (more)

Charging out of Davidson at full track speed of 55mph, one of Cleburne's finest puts on a show, running for a meet at Somerville with an empty Smither's Lake hopper train. As soon as he hits the ... (more)

Probably the most scenic yet least photographed geology on the Sidney sub, the bluffs at Potter were one of only 6 places between North Platte and Cheyenne that dropped the speed limit under 70 mp... (more)

Springtime on Sherman = cold as hell. After having some success with some Jacks, the cold must have got to me, shooting SD40-2s like this. This is the windiest part of the hill; more than a few ... (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)

Missed it by THAT much! Hoping to catch a nose to nose meet broadside, misjudged the location by less than 2 minutes as the LAX with a former 'fast forty' [look above the rear numbers for the spr... (more)

The daily grind. SOP was to get to Bellville before 9AM to get a head start on the mid-morning cloud explosion; shoot what was in the roundhouse tracks, then catch whatever was leaving on the sou... (more)

Ohhh, what a letdown! Hearing that the 'three musketeers' (OMW, OMN, VAN) were all called out of Cheyenne, I had set up at the curve on the Red Buttes line just west of the CP where the grades se... (more)

What you see: a once proud model on the SP, now reduced to just a few units running by this time; 2 units backing on to their train at Wallisville Rd. What you DON'T see: the hostler on the groun... (more)

During the time when even the Katy was leasing everything in sight, came along this 'demonstrator' to show off MK's relatively new entrance into 6 axle rebuilds. This was former SP 8402. This wa... (more)

Never knew what would come in off the Conroe district and tie up at Somerville. Whatever the treasure, it would stay all day, so when we blew through in the AM we would shoot the east side, and t... (more)

West is east and east is west; west end of siding is direction east, but in ATSF parlance since it's 'away' from Chicago, it's railroad west. Anyway, this was back in the days of Locotrol, so the... (more)

Back when it was just 2 MT and a north running track, The 'Juke' loads are coming off the North Platte sub and running to Lee, where they will hold for the mid morning Z parade both ways. Just ov... (more)