The BNSF H.O.P.E. Farms Special departs the Ft Worth Stockyards for a run over the FWWR to Cresson, TX and back. Former Dallas Cowboy Russell Maryland is riding along todays train.
Todays crew works one of the facilities in the Temple Railpark. The train often has cars on both ends of the power working the cars from both ends to handle all the customer spurs.
UP 1982 leads an El Paso bound manifest west into a setting sun. The sun must have been a bit much for the engineer, note the blue plastic placed over the windshield.