Cimarron Valley's turn from Dodge City and the BNSF interchange is homeward bound now as it leaves the city behind. Power for today's train is a pair of GP26s, a GP30, and a B39-8, quiet an eclec... (more)

Sporting RC equipment, this ex-SP GP20 and an ex-IC cousin switch Farmrails drilling sand yard at the end of their line in Weatherford. I was happy find this properly painted unit in service as t... (more)

Cimarron Valley's job to work the carbon black plant near Ulysses departs Satanta behind a pair of GP30s as the prairie skyscrapers loom in the background.

An empty ethanol train heads toward Amarillo on BNSF's ex-Santa Fe Transcon as it inches up Curtis Hill. This train was being run-around by two higher priority westbounds allowing for the rare op... (more)

An empty BNSF tactonite train from the Ferromex interchange at the Mexican border at Eagle Pass, TX heads for Minnesota for another load or pellets. The train is exercising trackage rights on UP'... (more)

Austin Western's 212 job heads east as lite power to collect its train at the rock yard at Seward/Liberty Hill, TX as it passes the restored depot at Bertram, TX.

Austin Western's 212 job heads westbound into the setting sub with a train of empty rock gons for the quarry at Marble Falls, TX. The C&NW heritage of the lead unit is fairly evident with the uni... (more)

NS's 30th anniversary GP30 special passes through the famous photo spot at Arcadia/Solitude on its way north on the former N&W.

The Galveston Railroad Museum's hurricane evacuation rehearsal train clears the classic Santa Fe searchlight signals at Manvel, a nice addition to Warbonnet painted F units.

A lone SD40-2 pulls the Reedsburg job back to Madison, crossing the Wisconsin River at Merrimac in blustery conditions. The railfans in pursuit of this train used a state of WI ferry to cross the... (more)

AT&L power sits at the south end of a grain train being loaded in Watonga, OK. I was quite surprised to find the lead unit to a former Seaboard Air Line GP40, the flatlands of Oklahoma a long way... (more)

The lone ex-C&O GP30M and a former Rio Grande GP30 depart the Cimarron Valley's shops at Satanta to switch cars before heading to Ulysses, KS to switch the carbon black plant. This C&O unit is a ... (more)

Cimarron Valley's turn from Dodge City back to Satanta eases past the elevator at Ensign, KS where it will pick up a cut of loaded corn hoppers bound for a feed mill near Hugoton, KS. Leading tod... (more)

Amtrak's southbound Texas Eagle comes to a stop at the former Santa Fe station at McGregor, TX. Many, many years ago, the Cotton Belt crossed the Santa Fe here, but, alas, most of that track is a... (more)

A southbound UP freight for KCSM at Laredo, TX crosses a structure representative of the Mopac history of this line, the Frio River bridge.