The vastness of the American west is apparent in this scene as BNSF's test train plies the rails of the lightly used Raton Sub as it heads east out of remote Timpas on yet another SD70ACe-P4 evalu... (more)

Amtrak train #4, the eastward Southwest Chief, flies by a semaphore indicating a clear track ahead as they speed past the geologic formation that gave the town of Wagon Mound it's name.

Amtrak's Southwest Chief clears the intermediate signal at Bernal on its journey to California.

EMDX 1212 and the BNSF test train idle at dusk at remote Timpas, CO, shutting down after a long day of work on the lightly used Raton Sub to make way for Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief.

The lone operating wig-wag in Colorado waits for the call to duty in 10 hours when the westbound Southwest Chief will pass by on its way to California. It passes time admiring the fantastic stars... (more)

BNSF's R&D train to evaluate EMD's newest SD70ACe variant, the P4, holds the siding at lonely Timpas, CO, waiting for Amtrak's Southwest Chief to pass by before heading out on the main for a day o... (more)

Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief passes through the semaphores at the east end of the siding at Watrous in this amazing stretch of railroad that is more like a time machine than a modern mainlin... (more)

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.

A westbound UP freight heads into a fading sun along the Sunset Route east of San Antonio. The recent (and welcome) rains resulted in some fortuitous puddles for reflections.

Amtrak's Texas Eagle, train #22, detours through Rockdale, TX account of trackwork on its normal route between Taylor and Longview, TX. The former I&GN depot makes a great prop, having seen the p... (more)

Georgia Central's turn back to Macon crosses a rural road outside of Dublin, GA. One has to wonder how long these high hood U-boats will last in the 21st century...

BNSF 8268 pulls northbound after letting Amtrak's Texas Eagle clear southbound. The solid H2 consist and clean paint of the recently reactivated SD75M show well in the low light of a warm Septem... (more)

BNSF 6585 pulls a northbound freight out of the mainline fueling racks in Temple, TX, passing underneath a new 6 track signal bridge to replace many of the classic Santa Fe searchlights at this lo... (more)

An eastbound stack train bound for Houston crosses over Lake Amistad, the magnitude of the bridge increased by the low water levels of the lake suffered from another long, dry Texas summer.

A trio of non-dynamic brake ex-Mopac GP38-2s haul a local back into UP's Sosan Yard in south San Antonio after switching a frac sand distributor south of town. If you look closely at the lead uni... (more)