A southbound oil train from the racks at Steninel, Oklahoma, slowly creaks over the pil bridge across the flood plain of the North Fork of the Red River, led by former Georgetown Railroad (nee Mil... (more)

A southbound empty oil train slows to a stop at the grade crossing near a high fill north of Mountain Park, Oklahoma, on the former Frisco bypass around the 1975 Tom Steed Reservoir. The Altus cre... (more)

A busy time in Wichita Falls, 100 miles west of Fort Worth and crew change for many of BNSF's trains between Fort Worth and Amarillo. Front and center in the yard is an eastbound G BNVGAT4, a Bonn... (more)

BNSF maintenance workers stand back in the clear as southbound Amtrak Cascade #501 slowly passes through the work site at the MP 111 Control Point under Form B authority in May 2012. Workers on BN... (more)

Four SD40's and a pair of GP38's are more than enough to move the eastbound Dublin Turn right along as they cross the former Santa Fe Lake Granbury bridge returning to Fort Worth. Frac drilling bu... (more)

Bound for Fort Worth, the Dublin Turn accelerates out of Dublin. Sadly, no Dublin Dr. Pepper is in its manifest, largely empty frac sand cars.

Conductor rides the point as Farmrail's Elk City turn, after several hours of swapping engines and cars around, finally moves westward for the last 1/2 mile before arriving at the small Elk City y... (more)

Not the usual face of Farmrail, you'd think, usually the stronghold for chopped-nose EMD geeps, but at least two CIT leasing GP20D's are found working the ex-Santa Fe, Rock Island and Frisco lines... (more)

Perhaps not every fan's cup of tea, you'd had to admit that the "dormer noses" on the newest EMD's are distinctive. One such, SD70Ace 8729, accelerates away from a slow order at Annetta, Texas, wi... (more)

An early-running Dublin Turn descends westbound into the valley of the Paluxy River west of Tolar, Texas, behind a pair of GP38-3's and a quartet of SD40's.

Where else can you link Rock Island, Milwaukee Road, New York Central and Oklahoma in a single photograph? Farmrail, of course. The Elk City turn is less than a dozen miles from terminal at Clinto... (more)

Not too long ago, the Farmrail/Grainbelt network in western Oklahoma was the exclusive province of GP9 derivative locomotives, but over the past half-decade or so, several GP38 and leased CITX GP2... (more)

Mother and daughter find the photographer far more interesting than the pair of former M-K-T GP40's switching out its train in the small yard at Snyder, Oklahoma. The crew out of Altus had brought... (more)

An Altus-based Farmrail crew moves a northbound empty train of oil cans across a small creek on the south side of Mountain Park, Oklahoma, shortly after swapping its train from Altus with this tra... (more)

Continuing its southbound trip at an agonizing 10mph, a until crude oil train loaded at Sentinel emerges from the deep cut at Quartz Mountain, between Lugert and Blair, Oklahoma, on Farmrail's ex-... (more)