Jimmy prepares to line a switch into Texaco as the engineer does a classic lean out the window of this rebuilt NW2. The Austin & Northwestern is a fallen flag and all that remains of this scene is... (more)

The West Texas & Lubbock Railroad was in a power shortage, so parent company Iowa Pacific Holdings sent locomotives from the SLRG to help out. The locomotive has come a long way from the cold Main... (more)

A hot west Texas afternoon is spent switching loaded cars of peanuts with some interesting power helping out.

With work at Golden Peanut completed, the train heads down to Seagraves as the sand attempts to cover track work only days old.

A southbound loaded coal train destined for Halsted, TX wraps around a northbound empty E SLPRWM0 24A heading from Smithers Lake, TX to Rawhide Mine, Wyoming.

The bread and butter of the GCSR is sand, lots of it. What has become known as "Brady Brown" is high in silica and great for use in proppants. Here the local switching team plays two bay shuffle o... (more)

A pair of former Santa Fe CF7's continue to survive a hundred or so miles away from where the ATSF Cleburne shops built them from F7A's. The are looking nice and clean and the silver horn is a nic... (more)

An FXE trio leads a San Antonio-bound auto train south on the Union Pacific Choctaw Subdivision. The train is leaving Tioga, Texas and crossing Ray Roberts Lake. "Tioga" is an Indian word that mea... (more)

A train of unprocessed sand with 2x1 BNSF power works its way over the Fort Worth & Western Railroad from the Trinity River West Fork, towards the Clear Fork where it will begin the 2% grade to Cr... (more)

Texas Eagle train 21 departs ITC, the Heartland Flyer train 822 is at right.

The latest additions to the Fort Worth & Western roster work the yard duties along with 2GS14B FWWR 2014. The GT units look out of place in Texas, but before long they will wear the FWWR livery an... (more)

The Herzog Multi-Purpose Machine (MPM) cab control unit, the powered unit HZGX 190 is on the opposite end. This one man remote-controlled operation is capable of many MOW tasks.

The Amtrak Exhibit Train came north from San Antonio off of the Sunset Limited as part of the Texas Eagle train 22. The equipment was placed between the motor for 22 and the Texas Eagle passenger ... (more)

The AAPRCO special rolls by remnants of heavy track work recently done on the Galveston Sub. Click 'Kansas City Chief' above for more photos of the train. The consist was in order as follows: AMTK... (more)

The AAPRCO special gets the highball after meeting a loaded grain train. The consist was in order as follows: AMTK 71, AMTK 88, AMTK 166, 800149 Evelyn Henry, 800148 Warren Henry, 800045 Caritas, ... (more)