A rested crew prepares to go on duty and take the train to BNSF interchange in Lometa. The engineer is likely to shout out to the hitch-hiker covered conductor returning from knocking off handbrak... (more)

Running waycar light from Cedar Park, ATCX 442 descends the Summit grade westbound. The train usually consists of restored passenger cars loaded with people enjoying a scenic ride through the Texa... (more)

Customer Special heading south on the Austin Subdivision.

Fire fills the sky over an Austin Western train beginning their nightly run west to Austin. The contract between Watco and Capital Metro is coming to an end in 2015, leaving many to wonder if Watc... (more)

The Texas flag inspired paint scheme of the Gulf, Colorado and San Saba Railroad will be missed as Heart of Texas Railroad has taken over the operation. With GCSR now a fallen flag, only time will... (more)

In a historical event, UP 3985 leads the circus train to Denver. Not only was this my first chance to photograph the 3985, it was also my first visit to beautiful Colorado.

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)

The consist for the Fort Worth to Odessa manifest heads to the Santa Fe Bypass. Once on the bypass, it will run around Davidson Yard to get to its train on the west end.

A MetroRail commuter train quietly glides through the Austin Western Abbott Yard, passing a new locomotive built by Railserve for the Trans-Gabon Railway.

The Kohler Job brings outbound cars into the BNSF Brownwood Yard for interchange.

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)

The Heartland Flyer advertising rail travel to the annual Red River Rivalry collegiate football game between UT and OU. Along with the added decals, the train had extra cars and ran beyond its nor... (more)

In the mid 1950's, Lehigh Valley sent a few aging EMC NW1's to EMD for rebuild core units. One of the NW1's originally built in 1938, emerged in 1957 as a 600hp SW900M LV 130. The deal was set up ... (more)

A late running TRE train ducks under the historic Hunt-Hawes building as the TRE attempts to keep service going despite the bad weather conditions.

Traveling through the Western Cross Timbers section of the state, the Odessa bound manifest gains on the 3,000 foot destination. This area was renamed to Santo after two T&P trains nearly collided... (more)