With only a few hours to railfan around Lubbock, I made it a point to find and shoot the West Lubbock & Texas. When I achie... (more)
A new addition to the abundance steam engines represented on RP isn't exactly what it appears to be. Fort Worth & Denver 'Mikado' #401 on display at the National Ranching Heritage Center is actual... (more)
Last seen on RP in 2008, SD9043MAC #113 now wears Texas-New Mexico Railroad reporting marks and West Texas & Lubbock lettering, both belonging to Iowa Pacific Holdings. TNMR 113 is currently assig... (more)
This freight is just west of the Lubbock passenger station bound for either Amarillo or Clovis, NM. I was in my year of USAF pilot training at Reese AFB and was pleased to find so many handsome EM... (more)
An ATSF F7 leads an A-A-B-A set of units on a westbound freight at Lubbock. Some of the Santa Fe's F7 units were delivered without stainless steel grilles making them look like later F3s.
An ATSF GP7 rolls into Lubbock with an eastbound local freight.
Two SD40-2s idle near the west end of Lubbock yard, awaiting assignment. The snoot 6770 was completed in November 1979, serial number 786223-2, as AT&SF 5111, housing RCE remote (slave) equipment... (more)
Not far from Buddy Holly's grave, Burlington Northern Santa Fe train P-CLONWO1-06 (Clovis, NM - New Orleans) heads south behind two former Santa Fe diesels (Dash 8-40CW 900 and GP60M 146) in Lubbo... (more)