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The previous post illustrated a ZAILC train on August 9th with three NS and one UP unit for power. On August 25th not only was the train pulled by three…

Recently Union Pacific announced its intention to pursue a merger with Norfolk Southern to result in the country's first transcontinental railroad. It will take the STB at least a year…

Thanks to the railfan grapevine I was aware that an eastbound intermodal out of California that was heading my way on the Baird Sub on August 4th was led by…

On July 7th, 2025, I drove down to Cleburne to visit with friend Jeremy Krauss who was riding Amtrak 22 up from Temple. Heading east on Highway 171from Cresson I…

On June 1st of this year the railfan grapevine was alive with news of CSX's specially painted locomotive northbound on the BNSF out of Houston. I have one of the…

These days Dallas Union Station is known as the Eddie Bernice Johnson Union Station to honor a influential Texas politician. I had a photo assignment there on May 20th and…

I returned to Purina Junction on May 13th, 2025 to capture a special move. Due to UP trackwork east of Dallas, on certain days Amtrak 21 would run from Chicago…

On April 21st, 2025, I had plans to head to Fort Worth to take some drone stills north of Tower 55. I had a stop to make first as I…

Last year in 2024 we had several very thick patches of bluebonnets near the track on FWWR's Dublin Sub east of Cresson. This year I headed back that way on…

April 1st, 2025, brought us an eastbound manifest on the UP Baird Sub with eight locomotives on the point. The local railfan group was gathered here at intermediate signal 270.5…