Part of the evening's traffic jam. Missed the symbol.

Seeing a Z glide downhill at 70 mph with dynamics and minimum on is a neat experience. Brakes shoes make a cool sound at 70 per.

The Hereford roadswitcher glides into Canyon with whining dynamic brakes behind SD40-2 7143 (ex-BN 7143, built early '79) and GP50 3205 (ex-ATSF 3852, built 4/85) at 1506. The head block of cars ... (more)

645 power assemblies be darned, the 316 sure sounded like a 567 pulling hard on taconite pellets enroute to Proctor and the lake. Chasing the 316 around for a few days and witnessing her doing he... (more)

BNSF 6488 South notches out on 87 limestone loads at 1448.

Minntac stone empties arrive in Proctor at 1351. If they can't be mid-train on a lumber drag on Tehachapi, the next best place for these beautiful tunnel motors and their 645s is hauling taconite... (more)

Seemingly in a nonstop trek up and down Proctor Hill, the week's Hill Job power yanks yet another set of empties off of Dock 6 and starts the climb toward Proctor. The throaty roar of 3 non-turbo... (more)

A V train heads east (probably back to McCook?), roaring through the double crossovers at Tangier, at 1055. The third unit, SD40-2 7329 (GMD, ex-CN 5041, blt. early '68), is one of 40 BNSF units ... (more)

Hot on the heels of a V train ahead, yet another Z glides east through Tangier at 1102. A great vantage point to see the 'flavor' of this area of northwestern Oklahoma.

Although I'd prefer three SD40s, the harmony of the Dash 9 and trail 7024's 645 in Run 8 sounded great as they entered the shadows of grain elevators on both sides of the tracks at 1733. Catching... (more)

A fairly hideous looking lashup leads a westbound manifest past the grain bins at Goodlett at 1734. BNSF SD70MAC 9760, BNSF CW44-9 792, and FXE CW44AC 4508 are the power.

An Alliance-bound Q (LACALT?; probably RICALT) strolls by the grain bins of Goodlett at track speed at 1057.

DPU -70MAC 8867 shoves hard on UFIX loads climbing on the approach to West Hedley at 1603.

After a terminal air test and being walked by the trainmen south of Altus, 7648 West finally rumbles through Olustee at 1619. The granger roots of these small Southwestern Oklahoma towns is very ... (more)

A T-Bird job powered by SD-M 316 (ex-SD18 186, built 4/60) and two SD38-2s (213 and 210, built 3/75) shove raw ore empties from Fairlane into the yard at Keenan. Soon, a different set of empties ... (more)