In it's dying days, Tower 17 was still an interesting place to be at times, even if it was uninteresting power. Here one of the Santa Fe's gawdawful GP9 rebuilds heads up the local headed up to C... (more)

A traffic jam on both sides of Abo meant we just camped out here and waited, first for 3 westbounds then 4 eastbounds. So what do you do while waiting for all the activity? Why, what every railfa... (more)

A seldom photographed area of the RS&S, a unit train sits around the east wye

How many RRs are involved in this image? This is a BNSF train with Ferromex and CSX ACs, on ex SP rails. This was originally the SP entrance into Fort Worth; the rear end of the train visible wo... (more)

PTRA was a where you went to see wild lashups of power that you would never see on any of the home roads, as they used power from all Houston railroads. It was also home to switcher hand-me-downs... (more)

Milby Street always seemed to be the place where you had the most chance to find a golden egg (after the SP Hardy Street shops). Today's find is an F45 as the east unit and an FP45 as the west u... (more)

Remember when? When the UP PRB was single track...?! Though I have not been back to the PRB since this photo was taken, I believe this spot is now 3 MT. But back then, the rave was new CNW and... (more)

What a difference 3 years makes. When this photo was taken, a slobbering 27 year old GE fan was excited to get another death series U23B in prime light. Three years later in this same town, a 30... (more)

Though I don't remember the exact date, I do recall that we saw this set at Bellville in the morning, but got involved with chasing the usual grain trains, coal trains and assorted joy riding up a... (more)

On the north end of Settegast yard at Ley Road, Hub and Bub the twins head back north after tying on a cab for the HOKV. We didn't expect anything like these to come to Houston after the merger, ... (more)

4 years old, the last unit in the SP GP38-2 series still looks almost new. This 4 unit set is shoving in the clear in advance of #2, the Sunset.

You can just feel the impatience of this scene: outbound crew is on board, waiting for the road foreman of engines to board (I don't know if that's him by the car, but I know the crew was waiting)... (more)

Like a big brother looking over the younger siblings, a tired and worn Big Jack awaits an inspection at the shop in the company of everyday power.

Throttling up out of the 20 mph speed limit through Conroe, three C44-9s accelerate this Silsbee to Somerville dog trai...er...manifest up to speed in order to keep the rolling dynamics maximized ... (more)

Oh, how I wanted to play "Let's Make a Deal" with the outbound crew about to get on at the yard office and set out the remotes! That 8753 kodachrome as the second unit was just knawing at me and ... (more)