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The weather here was overcast with rain showers all day so I had little incentive to spend a lot of time out in the field trying for my last photo…

We had a good holiday season here, and hopefully you did too! Rail traffic has been down as it almost always is between Christmas and New Years but yesterday morning…

Yesterday December 16th marked the end of a six-day streak of BNSF power leading the UP's hot ZAILC Atlanta to Los Angeles "Z" train. BNSF owes UP horsepower hours for…

On Saturday December 11th the UP ZAILC had a BNSF leader for the second day in a row but it ran very early and I missed it. The next day,…

BNSF Railway has trackage rights over the UP Baird Subdivision between Fort Worth and Sweetwater but in recent years only uses them occasionally. Yesterday I learned too late that the…

Tuesday Dec 7th and Wednesday December 8th we had two business car trains in north Texas, one from the BNSF and one from Union Pacific. In yesterday's blog post I…

Today December 7th, the BNSF ran an officer's special south out of Tulsa over the ex-Frisco Creek and Madill Subs on its way to Houston with an overnight stop in…

Yesterday, Tuesday November 23rd around 8:30 am I met friend Paul Beverung at the Aledo Diner for breakfast. A westbound Z train rolled through town at 50 mph just as…

When I was catching up the blog entries to date yesterday and today, I overlooked October 9th when my young friend Ethan Whetstone was in town from Oklahoma for a…