A foreigner and an IC SD70 lead a northbound manifest through Austin on a hot and humid afternoon in March.

A UP stack train crosses the bridge into downtown Austin.

UP 8452 leads an eastbound manifest train east of Taylor, TX on the Austin Sub.

Rollin' … Rollin' … Rollin' Down 'Cross the River

Heading back to the quarry with a unit train of empty gravel gondolas, this Union Pacific southbound is powered by UP... (more)

After soaring over the Dry Cormal Creek and crossing over the former MKT mainline, a quartet of UP motors proceed through the city of New Braunfels, as they pass by the 1907 Missouri Pacific depot... (more)

An appropriate flower combination (Texas Bluebonnets and Indian Paint Brush) greet the Phase I Amtrak heritage unit on a beautiful spring evening.

Snow was a rarity in Central Texas in the winter of 1947, but so were steam locomotives on the Sunshine Special which by this time had been dieselized. The abbreviated consist was indicative of ... (more)

Thirty years ago, early in the morning, a MoPac trio of SD40-2s crosses the Dry Comal Creek, preparing to hammer the diamond with MKT in downtown New Braunfels. If the wind was blowing the righ... (more)

Somebody at the UP power desk had a scarlet red heart and put together a nice trio of GE's, two still in patched SP paint, for this empty rock train heading toward San Antonio, TX. The train is c... (more)

UP (Ex-MoPac) SD40-2s 4298, B4253, and a sister, hold the siding with the Austin Local. They are waiting for an extremely late ... (more)

Coming through downtown New Braunfels, my childhood hometown, is an empty aggregates rock train, bound for the Western Railroad Company about four miles further on, traveling on the old MoPac, nee... (more)

Awaiting clearance into the small Taylor Yard (ex-MoPac), UP 8570 heads up an aggregates train from Western Railroad Co. in New Braunfels (my childhood home).

Specially modified and painted equipment becomes a rolling classroom for area firefighters. This training progam focused on HAZMAT emergencies, railcar anatomy, capping kits, chlorine gas and leak... (more)