End of the Line
Only two days passed and on the afternoon of Monday September 28, 2026, I was trackside again, but this time less than 30 minutes from home in Crowley just south…
BNSF 250 Over the Brazos
On Saturday September 26, 2026, the sun was playing hide-and-seek with the clouds as I drove south of Cleburne heading to the BNSF's Brazos River bridge. BNSF's USA 250th Anniversary…
Four Westbounds
On Saturday September 12, 2026, I drove to Abilene, Texas early in the morning to give two railroad photography classes as one small part of the Grace museum's annual Railroad…
Lackawanna Heritage in Annetta
On August 1, 2026, the railfan grapevine was alive with the news the UP/NS ZAILA train from Atlanta to Los Angeles was led by the Norfolk Southern's Lackawanna Railroad heritage…
BNSF 2026 Makes Two Out of Three
Having caught BNSF 250 not long ago, on July 24, 2026, I got word that another of their three United States 250th Anniversary locomotives, namely BNSF 2026, was leading an…
Grapevine Passenger Train
My friend Paul Beverung wanted to visit the Model Train Crossing hobby shop in North Richland Hills. The store is less than a five-minute walk from the Smithfield TEXRail station…
A Long Wait for The Prize
On July 15th, 2026, Union Pacific graced us with another photo opportunity of their Veteran's Unit 1943 pulling a business car special. The train was coming westbound out of Dallas…
Sunday Morning Business Train
After watching fireworks last night on Saturday July 04, 2026, I went to bed with the knowledge that early Sunday morning, a Union Pacific passenger train would be heading east…
Charger on the Point
Tuesday June 23rd, 2026 will go down as a small bit of history as the first time Amtrak's Texas Eagle was led by a relatively new Siemens ALC-42 instead of…
First Time to Catch the Reading
On Friday, June 19th 2026, local friends let me know from the railfan grapevine that the UP ZAILC (Atlanta Norfolk Southern to Loa Angeles) passing through here the next morning…