A trio of ES44C4's head northbound on BNSF's Ft. Worth sub, hauling an empty grain thru Valley Mills.

Texas State's #201 arrives at the Palestine depot, deep in the Piney woods of East Texas.

UP GP60 1952 rolls past the Heritage trio in Burleson. It's nice to see the Katy unit on "home" rails. The trio took part in the Officer on a Train program, trying to catch people running crossi... (more)

UP 1996 leads UP 1988 and UP 1982 thru Burleson while having an police officer tag along looking for people running gates. The Katy unit is on "home" rails today.

One of many parked trains on the Gulf Division due to Hurricane Ike. 137 and train is actually parked on the yet to be completed Main Two between Temple and South Rogers. Her loads of ballast ar... (more)

An empty grain train from Beaumont, Texas blasts up the hill northbound into Milano. The train is bound for harvests in the Heartland.

A gen-set idles in the early night sky at the interlocker with one of Saginaws many grain elevators providing the backround

BNSF 9890 leads two sister MAC's and an AC4400CW around the curve at North Rogers, as a loaded grain takes the siding.

BNSF 4722, sister to the famous BNSF 4723 (the MSTS unit), basks in the warm April afternoon, spoiling an otherwise all Santa Fe Freightbonnet consist of two SD45-2's and a SD40-2

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

My lead motor while hanging off crossings, while a UP Loaded coal holds the mainline up ahead in Giddings, Texas, to allow another BNSF train to clear up in the siding. The BNSF has trackage right... (more)