Amtrak's Texas Eagle, train #22, detours through Rockdale, TX account of trackwork on its normal route between Taylor and Longview, TX. The former I&GN depot makes a great prop, having seen the p... (more)

A Brandt Peterbilt shoves loads of ties toward a MOW crew unloading from a Union Pacific bus. Note the extended mirrors, horn, front knuckle and brake pipe air hose on the truck.

The Espee lives on in 2013. Only a handful of unpatched units remain on UP's roster and I doubt they will last much longer, this one returning to glory for a lead run on a high priority Z train.

In 1947 and thereafter Texas law required all freight locomotive tenders to have a doghouse in which the head brakeman was to ride. However, as seen in this view of Mikado No. 1113 rolling backw... (more)

Pacific No. 409 struggles up a 1.7% grade as it leads The Texas Special out of Austin. The train which usually consisted of 12 cars used Missouri Pacific tracks as it left the city southb... (more)

Some highly appropriate UP power gathers at the small yard on the ex-MP Corbyn Yard outside of New Braunfels, TX on a sunny Sunday afternoon. The UP 9746 is switching cars out to deliver to local... (more)

The yard job pulls a short cut from track 5 as a brakeman known just as "Squirrel" rides out to the switch.

A southbound Missouri Pacfic freight wih a mixture of units is just north of Austin on New Year's Day 1971. My future wife is learning what she's in for as she sits in my 1967 Alfa Romeo coupe. We... (more)

The southbound Sunshine Special glides through the cut north of Sixth Street in Austin. Diesels had replaced the Pacifics which were the previous power. The cut was removed during the constructio... (more)

Ten-wheelers were usually required as helpers for northbound freights ascending the grade out of Austin in 1947.

A 92-car train of TILX empties crosses the UP Waco Sub as it continues south on the UP Austin Sub to McNeil, TX. As an extra-board conductor for the Austin Western Railroad, I often get called to ... (more)

A BNSF trackage rights train to Hondo, TX (for interchange with the Hondo Railway) crosses the Guadalupe River in New Braunfels, TX as it heads south on UP's Austin Sub.

A Fort Worth to San Antonio manifest has exited the UP Waco Sub for a southbound move on the UP Austin Sub. The MFWSA-12 is getting a fresh crew as the couterpart MSAFW-12 is switched by the LAW10... (more)

A nortbound mixed freight rolls up the Austin Sub over the Guadalupe as fisherman cast their lines and a water rescue team practices for the next emergency.

While waiting for UP's E-Units on the 150th train, we were entertained by several freights including one with a patched SP AC44 as a DPU.