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)

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)