A Cold and Rainy Day at the Stockyards
The title of this blog pretty well says it all. The weather was not pleasant with heavy overcast and a cold rain falling on the afternoon of Sunday, February 26th.…
Employee Pride Meets MP Heritage
Shortly after 7:00 am Sunday morning February 20th, I learned the MFWBM Fort Worth to Bellmead (Waco) manifest train was getting ready to leave Ney Yard in Fort Worth headed…
Heading Home from the Super Bowl
Union Pacific ran a 29-car Heritage Fleet train with two SD70M's to the Super Bowl, and afterwards they split it into two sections. One unit and 18 cars headed directly…
On the Road to Linden, Texas
This last Friday afternoon February 11th, Judy and I drove to Marshall, TX to spend the night so as to not get up so early Saturday morning for a visit…
Patience Pays Off
On Thursday February 10th the sun rose into a perfectly cloudless sky, and so I decided to head up to the Wabtec locomotive facility in far north Fort Worth. My…
Even Colder Day Catches
Overnight starting on Wednesday, February 2nd, a well anticipated front arrived that brought us rain first followed by freezing rain, sleet and finally some snow this morning, Thursday the 3rd.…
Cold Day Catches
When I was loading my Explorer at the hotel in El Dorado, Kansas on the morning of January 19th, the temperature was 23 degrees with a wind chill of 9…
Interesting Light on the Kansas Prairie Grasslands
As the moon was setting before dawn on January 18th on the prairie grasslands north of Cassoday, KS, I spotted this interesting composition with two jet contrails crossing each other…
Kansas Road Trip
The morning of Sunday January 16th, I headed north out of Fort Worth on a road trip to Kansas to work for a client. I used the Amtrak app to…
My First CP Special Paint Unit
I received a message from a friend around noon today, January 14th, that a BNSF intermodal train from Clovis to Alliance Yard IMF was being led by the CP's Veteran's…