Heading east with new wind turbine tower poles at the dawn of a winter's day.

Handsome locos sit idle while waiting to head west.

UP 8053 leads a mixed manifest off the former MoPac line, bending south at Valley Junction.

After waiting for its westbound counterpart to clear the switch, KRR 4080 approaches the town of Ashdown and the diamond with CPKC.

Approaching San Antonio, a heavy GEVO singly handles a long string of empties, bound for reloading in southern Texas or Mexico.

Southbound in the chilly afternoon light, bound for San Antonio, a mixed freight plies the former MKT rails through Garden Ridge, but shortly will take the connector track to finish the journey in... (more)

Built in January 1971 (53 years ago!) as Baltimore & Ohio GP40 #3755, KCS 2853 was recently converted by KCS from a GP40-3 into a GP32ECO. It sits with two other KCS geeps in the small CPKC yard i... (more)

On this day 13 years ago, Metra 180 and the city of Chicago had not seen above freezing temps for quite some time. Here it is pounding the diamonds at 16th St., headed out the Rock Island Line tow... (more)

Having pulled through Temple (in the background) from the north, BNSF 7174 enters the yard southeast of town for fueling, and likely a crew change.

A pair of GEVOs is all that is needed to handle this train headed down the relatively flat Galveston Subdivision. Presumably these are heading to southeastern Houston's petrochemical complex to re... (more)

A pair of KCS SD70MACs have just finished switching the lead yard at the Domtar plant in Ashdown, and are preparing to head north for other work.

Just after (cold) dawn, a southbound CPKC train crosses into Texas over the Red River. This vantage point is feet from the northeastern tip of Texas. Arkansas is across the river, and is also abou... (more)

On a freezing cold morning, the CPKC crew in Shreveport inspects locomotives in the engine house. It is cold, but the sunshine helps (if one can stay out of the wind).

UP 5953 holds the siding with coal for San Antonio while the engineer (or conductor) comes out to give a visual once-over of an eastbound, near sunset.

Lehigh Hanson has acquired two former Missouri Pacific SD40-2s (UP 4279, previously MP 4279 and originally MP 3279) and 4297, (UP 4297, previously MP B4297 and originally MP 3297) to operate their... (more)