A factory-fresh ES44C4 from the Fort Worth GE plant races west towards Amarillo on the Red River Valley Subdivision hauling a nice train of domestic containers through the Texas panhandle region.

UP's empty rock train from Millet, TX crosses the Medina River on its way north for another load of rock for the booming Eagle Ford shale region.

UP power leads an empty Powder River Basin coal train from San Antonio's plant at Elmendorf, crossing over the San Antonio River. Only a few miles north from here on the river is the famous River... (more)

A UP local departs the ex-MP Sosan Yard in San Antonio bound for some frac sand plants on the Laredo Sub where the sand is distributed to drilling sites in the booming Eagle Ford shale in south Te... (more)

UP 8813 East crosses a small canyon on its way to the next crew change at Del Rio, TX as it traverses barren west Texas. The bridge in the foreground is the old US 90 crossing.

Amtrak's Texas Eagle crosses the Blanco River and the old Post Road as it proceeds north along the Balcones Escarpment bound for Fort Worth and Dallas and eventually Chicago.

Westbound Amtrak Train 1, Sunset Limited, technically numbered 421 on this April 8, 2003 day and led by two P42's, crosses the Rio Grande River after leaving El Paso, Texas station. Behind the c... (more)

In the late 1980s the Texas Limited was privately operated between Houston and Galveston, primarily on the old Galveston, Houston and Henderson. With a leased ATSF GP9 it was returning northward ... (more)

The silence of the rural San Saba River is rattled to life by the passing of a train slowly heading toward Brady.

A pair of rebuilt SD40Ns lead the Slot Machine work train toward San Antonio, having just entered the Austin Sub from the Lockhart Sub.

Odd to see such spindly trestle in the big city but here it is with a switchers tiptoeing across to some industry needing gons. This may be the slightly less glamorous part of the San Antonio Riv... (more)

Although this was 15 years ago, I'll never forget the hot blast of oil smoke gifted to me about 4 seconds after this shot was taken. All for giving the engineer a roll of film for his camera.

UP freight crosses remote Pecos River bridge on a hot December afternoon. Digital image.