ATSF 3423, a 4-6-2 On display at the Temple Railroad Museum. This locomotive was built by Baldwin in the year. 1921.

DGNO 144 waits by SRM Concrete to pickup its next bunch of cars before heading out.

A quartet of Kansas City Southern GP's on the point of LWY101, making a special move of M1 Abrams tanks from Alliance to Wylie after picking them up from BNSF. The crew has just run their power ar... (more)

The Interstate heritage unit leads an auto train west on the Glidden Sub

Always in the market for a bargain, KCS picked up this former B&O unit somewhere and upgraded it throughout. Today it's working a local, AKA a "dodger", a delightfully quaint nickname I... (more)

The Dallas, Garland & Northeastern's Dallas Turn rounds the bed after crossing White Rock Creek as it makes its way through Forest Hills, Texas behind an RP20BD and two EMD's. Running as the Dalla... (more)

KCS 4167 rests its motors at the west end of the Wylie yard awaiting its next assignment

I were king I would have "Mars" lights on all locomotives. Beware who you make king. LOL. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

The greatest locomotive of the late 1900s is heading a military train in east Texas. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

I'm going to miss this railroad more than any other one since the Clinchfield. It was the closest big "exotic" railroad to me in the last few years. These units hark back to the days w... (more)

A pair of ITSX SD40-2's pull autoracks across a bridge as they drill the yard at the automotive unloading facility that is part of BNSF's Alliance Yard complex in Haslet, Texas. This units are ope... (more)

As storm clouds build to the west, a pair of BNSF SD40-2's lead a local freight down the Wichita Falls Subdivision and are about to head into BNSF's North Yard in Fort Worth, Texas. The train has ... (more)

Arriving the Stockyards

Moments after BNSF's Spokane to Alliance intermodal entered the yard, ITSX SD40T-2 no. 2839 begins shuffling a cut of UPS and FedEx containers and trailers around the southern end of the Alliance ... (more)

BNSF 5625 shoves empty ballast train U SAGDAV north towards the Metro siding as it prepares to meet the Z CHIALT