Last Light and First Light
On Wednesday July 12th the UP ran an engineering special from Herrington, KS to Fort Worth. The original schedule showed it passing through Saginaw around 5:30 pm and I arrived…
Lackawanna Comes to Fort Worth
Last Saturday July 1st the railfan grapevine indicated a westbound intermodal train coming off the Meridian Speedway and getting on the UP at Shreveport had a Norfolk Southern heritage unit…
NS Heritage in the Rain
It started raining again here at home around 2:00 am and was still raining when I was getting ready to take a shower and get dressed around 9:45 am. Then…
A Buck and an Ace
This morning December 23rd when I looked out the bathroom window this is what I saw. And then he spoke to me. Yes, as I get older I hear more…
Washington at Night
Shortly before sunset on September 25th around thirty of us boarded a bus at the hotel for a tour of Washington D.C. at night. Our first stop was at Union…
A Trip to the East Coast
Back in late September my wife was scheduled to attend a work-related conference in Washington D.C. We decided to fly to Washington and then add a few vacation days after…
Ribbon Cutting And Fun On The Trip Home
On the morning of September 15th I arrived at Cadet Yard an hour before the 10:00 am scheduled start of the dedication ceremony. While I cannot share my photos of…
On The Road To San Antonio
I had a photographic engagement in San Antonio on the 15th and so I drove down from Benbrook on the 14th with the idea photographing a few trains along the…