Shortly after its public unveiling, UP 4141 the George H. W. Bush tribute locomotive is on display in College Station, TX across from Texas A&M University's Kyle Field.

Two consecutively numbered new ES44C4 locomotives for the BNSF are parked on the GE delivery track at Lambert Junction south of Justin, TX. BNSF will pick them up this night and take them to near... (more)

A late afternoon thunderstorm is raging over Albuquerque to the northwest of Bridge One at the west end of Abo Canyon. An A-B-A engine consist of GP60's is powering an eastbound intermodal from S... (more)

As orders for new locomotives dwindled, the GE locomotive (now Wabtec) locomotive factory in Fort Worth, TX started a rebuild program for customer's older units. As per the comments, my mistake f... (more)

Shortly after its public unveiling followed by a few business car specials, UP 4141 the George H. W. Bush tribute locomotive was put into freight service between Fort Worth and Houston. In this p... (more)

Back in the days of the Santa Fe Railroad, this neon sign unfailingly greeted visitors to the office complex on the north side of the yard at Clovis, NM. Seen here at sunset on a cloudy day back ... (more)

UP's Missouri-Kansas-Texas Heritage Locomotive was posed with UP's cooperation behind a patch of bluebonnet flowers in honor of the old M-K-T passenger train named the "Bluebonnet".

After leaving Texarkana, TX on its way south towards the next stop at Marshall, TX I took up a position looking back along the track from the rear sleeping car door on Amtrak train 21. It was a v... (more)

Heading towards Cresson, TX at 30 mph, this view from the front walkway shows the engineer of the FWWR Cresson Turn intently watching the track ahead.

Photo taken at night of the UP "Pacific Northwest Special" from Council Bluffs to a series of public relations stops in Idaho, Washington and Oregon.

With the town of Tioga behind it, the head end of a southbound empty BNSF rock train is passing over a bay of Ray Roberts Lake as a small fishing boat is about to pass beneath it. The train is us... (more)

An empty coal train is heading back to the mines as it runs down the middle of snow covered Main Street in West Brownsville, PA.

Photo taken at sunset from the dome car "Walter Dean" looking forward at an E9 A-B-A engine consist leading the UP "Pacific Northwest Special" from Council Bluffs to a series o... (more)

On Valentine's Day in 2004 the Fort Worth area experienced a rare 8-inch snow that altered the local landscape.

In between switching moves at Fort Worth & Western's ex-Cotton Belt Hodge Yard in Fort Worth, veteran engineer Richard Benton takes a moment to check his venerable Hamilton "Railroad Special&... (more)