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I had heard there was a Siemens ALC42 "Charger" in the area on Amtrak 21 and 22, and during the afternoon of April 06, 2026, I found it coupled to…

With World Cup soccer games and other summer activities coming to North Texas in 2026, Dart and Trinity Metro decided to increase train service to Arlington via the Trinity Railway…

After my success two days earlier of capturing CPKC 1776 before it was released for delivery I was still feeling the urge to get out and about now that I…

As the countdown is running to the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, many railroads are joining in by painting locomotives in celebratory schemes. In the…

Back on January 12th, 2026, thanks to improved surgical choices, I finally had a birth defect in my left ankle corrected that had caused me increasing pain as I walked…

On Friday, January 9th, 2026 I drove down to Cleburne to visit with friend Jeremy Krauss who was riding on Amtrak train 22 from home in Temple. After lunch Jeremy…

The local railfan grapevine was alive with information that an eastbound UP autorack train would pass through our area on the morning of Sunday, January 04, 2025. What warranted the…

I celebrated the beginning of the last day of 2025 by getting a colonoscopy first thing in the morning. My wife Judy had to drive me to and from the…

Once again the weather was unseasonably perfect on Saturday December 20, 2025, and I decided to try to catch a train passing the quarry lake west of Aledo in full…

It was another good weather day on November 25, 2025 when I made a round trip drive to Brownwood to meet a model railroader friend and pick up an HO…