One of MRL's Livingston assigned helpers prepares to cut off from the coal train it shoved over Bozeman Pass at Muir siding.

Much like a snake sneaking around its environment, a UP empty auto rack train snakes across the barren Texas landscape west of Del Rio on its way east.

A UP empty autorack train heads east across the Sunset Route. There are no substantive trees in west Texas to block the view, affording this vista of three clean UP engines and 78 racks as they a... (more)

A BNSF DPU trails on an empty hopper train as it transits MRL back to BNSF rails at Laurel and on to the Powder River Basin for another load of coal. This view from the east side of Livingston se... (more)

MRL 4315 and two blue friends shove a BNSF loaded grain train as they start over Bozeman Pass.

UP 8813 East descends one grade and begins another as it crosses the barren west Texas landscape. Not much to see in this part the world when driving US 90 except the well-engineered ex-SP right ... (more)

UP 8813 East crosses a small canyon on its way to the next crew change at Del Rio, TX as it traverses barren west Texas. The bridge in the foreground is the old US 90 crossing.

MRL 4301 starts shoving on a westbound coal train over Bozeman Pass as it departs Livingston. The thermostat on the car read -1 degF on that afternoon, quite a contrast from the 71 degF Texas I h... (more)

MRL 4306 leads a helper set downgrade and back to Livingston to get ready for the next shove up the hill.

A MRL helper set shoves a loaded coal drag over Bozeman Pass while an eastbound empty waits in the siding to proceed down the mountain to Livingston and beyond.

FEC train 109 heads south across the bridge at Stuart with rock empties from Fort Pierce. A single engine has the train in hand today with traffic being light due to the holidays.

FWWR's Cresson Turn accelerates out of Fort Worth on its way to Cresson on a gorgeous winter Sunday behind four SD40-2s.

A Houston area bound coal train from the Powder River Basin approaches the terminal at Temple, TX where it will change crews on its southward journey. As strange as it sounds, getting units in th... (more)

Fort Worth & Western's Cresson Turn departs Fort Worth as it crosses the Trinity River on its journey to the southwest.

An empty Herzog ballast train heads west back to the mine at Knippa, TX for another load, seen here passing under the former SP signal bridge that will continue to see trains for the forseeable fu... (more)