Main Street in downtown Elgin is greeted with the 121 Job heading west. Elgin is a railroad town and owes its existence, or at least location, to the railroad and a flood. The original alignment o... (more)

The Daffan Double. A 121 crew completes the double after the 111 job lost two motors and went dead shortly after laying down on Daffan Hill. The first cut is seen between the switches at De... (more)

My first photo of 2013 and it comes from the small town of McNeil Texas. We're at the Austin Western's yard, where a group of power is taking it easy, waiting for assignments.

The very first train to arrive in Austin came on Christmas day 1871 with much celebration. That day paved the way for Austin to become the metropolis it is where freight trains play second fiddle ... (more)

That nose bell just can't be mistaken, these former Chicago & Northwestern GP50's continue to work together taking this train west toward Manor, TX.

A matched set of 3 former Chicago & Northwestern GP50's work Griffin Industries, crossing the Union Pacific interlocking and passing the 1903 depot in downtown Elgin. While other Watco units on th... (more)

The 121 job spots loads and pulls empties out of CCI on a cool October evening. If you click the photo map, you can see that the spur the train is setting out on used to cross Big Sandy Creek. The... (more)

The 4146 and 4147 head back west past the 1872 Houston and Texas Central Freight Depot, the oldest building in downtown Elgin.

A quiet morning in Elgin is briefly interrupted as the Austin Western makes an eastbound run through town toward Butler. The train is passing the restored Houston & Texas Central freight depot tha... (more)

Aggregate heading for Bulter, TX pounds the jointed rail of the East Subdivision.

A load of rendered chicken meal and a handful of aggregate empties head west toward Manor.

Austin Western 5103 with LTEX initials.

A nine-unit consist of five WAMX/AWRR (ex-C&NW) GP50s, a WAMX SD40-2, two BNSF C44-9Ws and a BNSF ES44DC roll a hundred car train of empty rock gons west through the Texas Hill Country northwest o... (more)

A trio of former C&NW GP50's (WAMX 5011,5002,5003, originally C&NW 5092,5059,5062) await the call to duty in AWRR's Summit yard on the former SP, originally Houston & Texas Central's Llano branch.... (more)