About to make the turn to the south to run through the yard, HE 8170 makes it to Altus on its 13 mile journey from Duke.
BNSF 4844 leads the daily H-train out of the yard as seen from the second highest point in the Red River Valley...the I-29 overpass!
HE 8170 brings its load of wallboard east skirting the yellow flowers that line the right of way along this stretch of HE's 13 miles of track.
M-SUPMIN rolls west through Larimore on an unusually hot and muggy evening for the Red River Valley.
BNSF 505 and a trailing SD40-2 struggle to get this manifest up to track speed as it hits the curve westbound in Arvilla.
This old grain silo sees this sight at least five times a week as HE 8170 brings wallboard east to Altus for interchange with the BNSF.
Hollis & Eastern's old road switcher, this neat little SW1 is rarely seen (and rarely photographed so close) and now only works deep within the plant shuffling cars. Photo taken on property with ... (more)
HE 8170 trundles over Hwy 62 across a manually flagged crossing on its way out of Duke.
HE 8170 sets out from the American Gypsum plant in Duke eastbound for Altus with a load of wallboard.
Ex-GRR (and sister unit to Lycoming Valley 9050 and 9052) GP20 now wears the reporting marks of Grainbelt. Rumor is this unit will be assigned to work the balloon track at the Martin Marietta roc... (more)
Someone left the crew door open on this DPU as this empty coal train roars west out of Vernon.
UP coal eastbound on the rolling hills running via trackage rights over BNSF rails.
Morning stacks ride the roller coaster eastbound departing Vernon behind a cancerous-looking BNSF 850.
Power for the Quanah Local bakes, literally, in the hot afternoon Texas sun. Pretty neat power combo of a GP50 and GP60 for the daily turn on the Chickasha Sub.
Distributed power BNSF 8967 is about to descend into the abyss and into a giant cloud of coal dust left behind by its eastbound loaded coal hoppers.
