Trinity Industries, one of the largest railcar leasing firms, operates a shop complex in Avondale, Texas dedicated to cleaning and repairing tank cars in the fleet. On an April afternoon, a GE cen... (more)

Texas is really not flat. Here a mixed freight climbs one of the humps. They do have some wide open spaces. Photo by Calvin Christman, from my collection. BTW, considering the distance from Da... (more)

A pair of Kansas City Southern GE's lead CPKC's LWY101 freight as it rolls north through the junction at Krum, Texas and turns east while a BNSF auto train waits to go south in the background. Thi... (more)

Doing the Pig Dance when KCS brings there cut for the NB Z train to Chicago.

North bound Heartland flyer passes by a field at Valley View, Tx on a warm sunny evening.

An intermodal approaches Pressler St in downtown Austin

DGNO Power Idle on the spur towards Lewisville while the DART Train on the Green line travels northbound towards North Carrollton/Frankford

Finding string of power with no UP unit seemed difficult even before the merger. Photo by Calvin Christman, from my collection.

Rolling south with a Houston-bound freight. Photo by Calvin Christman, from my collection.

A DASH (Dallas-Shreveport) train along with some M of W guys are waiting to go back to work. The "Cobra" unit is ex CN. Shot in the late 90s or early 2000s. Photo by Jim Satterwhite,... (more)

A northbound manifest crosses the river into downtown Austin

A cement train approaches the Austin Amtrak Station

Fort Worth & Western Railway has added to their roster SD60Ms recently with the road numbers 2033 through 2038. Here is 2036 originally built for Union Pacific as 6157 at the FWWR Hodge Yard along... (more)

The engineer fires second unit #2824 before making way to the lead locomotive 2601 which is a SD22ECO locomotive rebuilt from SD40's by replacing the existing prime mover with an EPA Tier-II-compl... (more)

KCS 4006 - Veterans Unit at the KCS Wylie Yard. The idea for this locomotive’s transformation (13 Years old at the time of it's transformation) came from KCS Assistant Vice President Locomotive ... (more)