A veteran Rock Island E6 is stopped in Amarillo with train 22. This oddball train ran all the way from Tucumcari, NM to Memphis, TN.
DeBruce Grain GP7 4202 sure wouldn't be a good PR tool for the company as it appears this former C&NW veteran has seen better days. Along with the 4202 is a ex Texas Northeastern nee SP GP9. The p... (more)
No.1606 leaves Amarillo eastbound with an extra. All of the 74 locomotives in this class were built as compound engines and were converted to simple. This engine was built by Baldwin in 1905 ... (more)
Accelerating rapidly, a 5011 class 2-10-4, built by Baldwin in 1944, is leaving Amarillo westbound. These massive locomotives had 74 inch drivers and developed 93,000 lbs. of tractive effort. ... (more)
Santa Fe 4-8-4 No.3776, the first of its class, built by Baldwin in 1941, has just left the station in Amarillo headed for Pampa with train No.2 The Scout.
A Wyoming bound coal train in for fuel and crew change on the east side of Amarillo.
One of the many Z trains the navigate the BNSF southern transcon on a daily basis is this one from Fresno, CA to Chicago. The one sure way to tell it apart is the block of reefers between the stac... (more)
BNSF 9221 leads a westbound coal train out of Amarillo.
A westbound Z train from Alliance, TX enters Restricted Limits Amarillo passing Progress Rail on the east side of town. You could smell the fresh paint on the new C4.
Something about Texas weather is just hard on locomotives. ATSF off the main in the Lone Star State was so different to the spit and polish Santa Fe world I was used to in California.
