The 121 Job heads west through "The Land of Brick and Sausage" with a load of chicken waste. Main Street in Elgin is decorated for the upcoming 26th Annual Hogeye Festival and soon the street will... (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.

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)

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)

Austin Western's Butler Turn returns back to Manor on a spring-like February Sunday, reflected in a pool of water from the previous day's rain.

Jimmy prepares to line a switch into Texaco as the engineer does a classic lean out the window of this rebuilt NW2. The Austin & Northwestern is a fallen flag and all that remains of this scene is... (more)

Katy Pacific No.397, built by the American Locomotive Co. in 1917, is crossing the trestle over Shoal Creek. The train is the southbound Texas Special.

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)

AWRR commenced operations on this line October 1, 2007. What a way to start out a contract.

Watco power tied up for the holiday weekend in north Austin.

A brand-new set of Austin DMUs was caught out on a test run.