Executive Train arriving Shreveport yard

Executive train arriving CPKC Shreveport yard

Old school meets the new boss... same as the old boss!

Yard job switching

Business train arriving Shreveport yard

A couple of the new locomotives at Shreveport yard

Looking at a sea of red with the KCS F units getting touch up painting at the paint booth.

MoPac F7A 814 leads three more F-units and a GP18 on the T&P near Shreveport, Louisiana on January 4, 1968. MoPac F7A 814 was former International Great Northern (IGN) nos. 595, built 09/49. Ph... (more)

Not the sunny south in this case.

A former IC unit in classic white with that classic southern crud that builds up. Photo by Dave Petke. From my collection.

I like those spark arresters and that horn. The F was slipping away almost 50 years ago.

What a schnoz! Photo by Dave Petke. From my collection.

Every so often you see something that begs the question "What were they thinking?". Actually the white didn't turn out as bad as everyone expected but that road number...............

A BNSF coal train is about to interchange back to BNSF in Shreveport. Due to southbound directional running on the Rabbit, aka UP Lufkin Sub required to Luminant's Martin Lake Power Plant in Tatu... (more)

A Wylie, TX to Meridian, MS/NS intermodal diverges onto the Meridian Speedway, while the other tracks leads to Lake Charles, or Beaumont and eventually Mexico.