A sufficiently powered Z-train makes good time climbing up out of the valley of the Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River between Estelline and Carey at 1520.

GP60 8702 (ex-ATSF 4003, built 5/88) and GP15-1 1486 (ex-BN 1386, nee-SLSF 111, built 9/77) return east to the yard in "downtown" Quanah after pullling and spotting the wallboard plant at Acme.

DPU -70MAC 8867 shoves hard on UFIX loads climbing on the approach to West Hedley at 1603.

BNSF 4645 West roars by Claude's Attebury Grain Elevators with 105 cars at 1649.

7400hp struggle to pull the Alliance freight up and over the plateau between the Wanderers Creek and Pease River Valleys at 1752.

Although I'd prefer three SD40s, the harmony of the Dash 9 and trail 7024's 645 in Run 8 sounded great as they entered the shadows of grain elevators on both sides of the tracks at 1733. Catching... (more)

Brand new GEVO 6040 all-too-quietly leads SD70M 9670 and UFIX (Houston Power & Lighting) empties westbound by the Bolton's Crown Quality elevators and their derelict switcher at 1557.

Yet another in the endless stream of Texas-Powder River empty coal trains, relatively brand new -70ACe 9393 and an older brother (and a DPU) work hard to keep 128 TXUX empties moving at track spee... (more)

The crew of a Houston-bound manifest nears the end of their day, about 20 miles to go to Del Rio. The train is a few miles from crossing the enormous trestle over Lake Amistad. Time was 1312.

Autumn Struggle. Pulverized sand, leaves, and exhaust fly as GP40 344 (ex-CR, PC 3221, built 11/68) leads four other units (one shut down and one not loading properly on the verge of giving up th... (more)

Two GP40s (349 and 347, ex-CR, PC 3264 and 3260, nee-EMDX 15 and 11, blt. 4/69) and GP40-2LW 517 (ex-CN, HLCX 9660, blt. Spring '76) get today's EDPO started east with mostly slurry loads and pape... (more)

"The Huck's" fresh recrew makes a grain car pickup at Tracy before continuing east at 1202. Yes, finding sun was just as difficult as it would appear by looking at that overcast...

SD-M 316 (ex-SD18 186, built 4/60) and two SD38-2s (213 and 210, built 3/75) slowly pull a Fairlane train over the weigh-in-motion scale at the north end of Proctor.

645 power assemblies be darned, the 316 sure sounded like a 567 pulling hard on taconite pellets enroute to Proctor and the lake. Chasing the 316 around for a few days and witnessing her doing he... (more)

The POED drifts downgrade along the Millers River and underneath of Rte. 2 at Wendell Depot. It is not apparent in this shot, but the visible straight section of track is actually a beautiful bal... (more)