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Wordpress upgrades dictated that I had to redesign the FL9 website, so this is the new "look". To mark the occasion here is a trip back 14 years in time…

After I was up and about Monday morning, I learned that instead of heading south from Fort Worth overnight the vehicle train led by BNSF 5872 was just getting ready…

On the morning of Sunday September 13th I was notified that BNSF 5872 was leading a Wellington, Kansas to Pearland, Texas vehicle train passing Oklahoma City. The weather was overcast…

After photographing BNSF 6017 on Monday heading south with a loaded coal train for the Houston area, this Wednesday morning found the now northbound empty train cycling back to the…

Yesterday September 7th marked Labor Day and the first visit of one of the BNSF's 25th Anniversary locomotives to the Fort Worth area. BNSF 6017 was leading a loaded coal…

Yesterday afternoon September 1st an approaching cold front was generating a line of thunderstorms to the west of Fort Worth. I had learned earlier in the day that Norfolk Southern…

Early Saturday morning August 29th I headed out for a friend's house north of Aledo to help him learn how to fly his new drone. On the way into Aledo…

BNSF announced recently they would be releasing ten units specially decorated for the railroad's 25th Anniversary. The first unit, ES44C4 number 6111 was released from Mid America in Kansas City…

My friend Ethan Whetstone was in Fort Worth on Saturday August 22nd and I met him in the morning down south of Tower 55. As I have spent a lot…

On Thursday August 20th I had photo work to do for a client near Hearne, Texas. I was headed in that direction when at 7:53 am I came across an…