Monthly Archives: February 2023

When I got up on Thursday February 28th at 7:00 am, I checked on the eastbound Amtrak Southwest Chief and saw it was running several hours late and would arrive…

On Wednesday, July 27th after work in Arizona I encountered a westbound freight on the Phoenix Sub as it was leaving Ash Fork. I quickly drove a few miles south…

The next morning Tuesday, July 26th I left Fort Sumner early and drove around 275 miles before I paused for my first photos of the day. I was tracking the…

On Monday, July 25th in 2022 I left home near Aledo, TX to begin a two day drive to Flagstaff, AZ to do some work for a customer. My goal…

I was back out the next day on Friday July 15th, this time closer to home at Iona Siding where a UP maintenance of way train was working at picking…

The next day on July 14th I learned there was a UP track inspection car running between Sweetwater and Fort Worth over the Baird Sub near the house. I got…

I had heard that CSX CW44AC number 173 was in the lineup of older locomotives to be rebuilt at the Wabtec locomotive factory in far north Fort Worth. I had…

A few days later on Sunday July 10th I had a shot at catching a different UP Heritage unit near Alvarado. The UP Rio Grande heritage unit number 1989 was…

Wednesday July 6th of 2022 I received intel that a northbound UP freight on their Fort Worth Sub had just left Waco heading to Fort Worth with the UP's Chicago…

Baird Hill on the ex-T&P, ex-MP now Union Pacific around 130 miles west of Fort Worth is one of the steepest westbound grades on the Baird Subdivision. The town of…