BNSF on trackage rights delivering an empty rock train to the Austin & Western RR. The lead engine was very clean. Must be a recent delivery from GE.

Railroad officials and First Responders work the derailment scene.

UP 7039 leads an empty grain train north from Mexico on the former MP Austin Sub, crossing the Blanco River.

The local yard job begins their day as the ROGWD-14 creeps up the main. This previously retired snoot-nosed locomotive has been brought back to life as an SD40N, sporting a new coat of UP Armour Y... (more)

UP 5882 and patched SP 6188 lead SATX coal empties north on the Austin sub past an abandoned barn near Rockdale, Texas. This is the former Missouri Pacific St. Louis to Laredo main line, originall... (more)

A pair of warbonnet GEs lead this BNSF trackage rights train north on the UP Cuero Sub to home rails at Caldwell, TX and eventually on to the yard at Temple, TX. Once I saw the power on this trai... (more)

BNSF yard and local power awaits their next call to duty at the engine facility in Temple Yard. Lots of classic paint schemes to be found on this particular day - BNSF H1, ATSF blue and yellow, a... (more)

An otherwise tranquil morning on the Colorado River is greeted with the passing of the Sunset Limited. A locomotive dedicated to the men and women of the United States Armed Forces is leading the ... (more)

The eastbound Sunset Limited glides by old Tower 3 on a brisk winter morning in downtown Flatonia. The locomotive sports a special paint scheme honoring the men and women of the United States Arme... (more)

MoPac freeway under construction as a KATY local passes by.

Amtrak's Texas Eagle crosses the Blanco River and the old Post Road as it proceeds north along the Balcones Escarpment bound for Fort Worth and Dallas and eventually Chicago.

The Espee lives on in 2013. Only a handful of unpatched units remain on UP's roster and I doubt they will last much longer, this one returning to glory for a lead run on a high priority Z train.

A pair of UP heritage units lead this San Antonio-Fort Worth manifest north on the Waco Sub. The consist was UP 1988, UP 1996, UP 8614, UP 799, HLCX 3842 and HLCX 3148.

Sign of spring
Crossing the Colorado River Bridge at Columbus, Texas; westbound Union Pacific MEWEG freight passes a bed of bluebonnets, the official State Flower. The owners of a rusti... (more)

Some highly appropriate UP power gathers at the small yard on the ex-MP Corbyn Yard outside of New Braunfels, TX on a sunny Sunday afternoon. The UP 9746 is switching cars out to deliver to local... (more)