Monthly Archives: December 2020

Here it is December 31st and it is very cold, windy and raining outside. What to do? Stay inside where it is warm and dry? No, go out and photograph…

The potential for rain was taken out of the forecast for Tuesday December 29th, so I decided to head north to catch the southbound Heartland Flyer. This day in addition…

Earlier this week word came from multiple sources that two private cars would be arriving in Fort Worth on Monday December 28th attached to Amtrak 21 the Texas Eagle. The…

Today Sunday the 27th I raced over to the UP Baird Sub just a few minutes from the house to catch the westbound Fort Worth to Monahans, Texas manifest train.…

I figured that I would be at home all day today on Christmas duty but shortly before noon the boss gave me a hall pass to deliver a gift to…

This morning December 24th I got a call that an eastbound Long Beach to Dallas intermodal train on the UP Baird Sub was passing Weatherford. What made this train interesting…

This morning Wednesday December 23rd I needed to run a few errands around Aledo and I took the camera along as I was not in a hurry. As I rounded…

Yesterday morning on social media it was reported a southbound loaded grain train on the BNSF with three CN units for power was just leaving Arkansas City, Kansas heading to…

Early on Friday the 18th my friend Troy Minnick who lives near the Wabtec/GE locomotive plant called to let me know they were getting ready to test a new ES44AC…

On Wednesday December 17th, I learned from social media that two Canadian National units were bringing 100 empty hopper cars south on the BNSF from storage on the Texas Northwestern…