southbound KATY train

I'm pretty sure of the date, but not 100%; this was in for the Santa Fe Modelers convention in Temple.

Not quite new, but not long from it.

The dynamic brakes of lead Dash 9 5217 and another sister whine as they bring a Houston-bound manifest toward a crew change at the south fuel pads at Temple.

BNSF 6488 East has became BNSF 6488 South and arrives from Brownwood at the South Fuel Pads and prepares for a quick crew change before proceeding southeast towards Houston. My excitement at disc... (more)

New GEVO 7669 leads an empty grain train past the southbound fuel racks.

BNSF ACe 9353 leads a empty coal train seen here arriving into Temple Yard

Locomotive sets attached and detached to trains, hostling to and from the diesel yard in downtown Temple.

Fuel Pad track #6 is blue flagged so the fuel pad technicians can work the Houston bound grain train, while an empty northbound coal's DP unit idles away over in #3 track

DP unit on a northbound empty coal train idles away off in fuel pad track #3. This train came out of Smithers Lake power plant and will be heading north back into coal country shortly

In the sulfur haze of a Texas summer afternoon, Kodachrome 8137 idles away, awaiting assignment.

A set of 5 ATSF GP7s, typical power for Central Texas, await a crew in the Temple Refueling Yard.

One of 10 SD45-2Bs, rebuilt by Santa Fe in 1987. I believe this is in Temple, TX, but it is possibly in either Ft. Worth or Cleburne.

A coal train on the ATSF with run-through BN power, headed for Houston, holds while an empty ATSF unit train heads north toward Temple, Ft. Worth, and points north. Red number boards (mentioned b... (more)

Leaving Temple, a string of 6 Santa Fe geeps approaches a refueling yard for thru trains on this busy ATSF junction.