Waiting to be picked up and put in service.

Metro 1 spotting boxcars at WSI.

Metro 1 bringing empties back to Dallas yard.

Metro 1 working Dallas yard

Amtrak train 821, the southbound Heartland Flyer, speeds south from Oklahoma City OK to Fort Worth TX. The carrier’s Phase IV Heritage diesel, P42DC 164, leads the 3-car train, with anot... (more)

Metro 1 delivering boxcars to WSI.

Metro 1 delivering lumber.

WAMX 4249 leads a rock train west through McDade

WAMX 4249 leads a rock train west through Elgin, past the last operating set of searchlight signals in central Texas

WAMX 6013, an ex-NS SD60M, rests at Abbott Yard

UP 1995, the Chicago & Northwestern heritage unit, leads a manifest through downtown Austin

The 315 "yellowbonnet" was one of the 74 passenger F-units which had been leased to Amtrak for its trains operating on the Santa Fe. When the lease terminated, the units were converted... (more)

Relics in service. This was SAL's only E9A, inherited by SCL and acquired by the nationalized passenger service corporation. Will we ever revere the P42 as much? I have my doubts. Photo by Gar... (more)

A northbound manifest is flanked by the aptly named MoPac Expressway

Contrary to popular opinion east Texas isn't flat. It undulates in big swells. Here the southbound Houston section of the "Texas Eagle" is accelerating out of one of the many dips. Th... (more)