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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…

So far this "winter" here in Texas has been unseasonably warm. That would describe Sunday November 11, 2025 which turned out to be a sunny day with light winds and…

Sunday October 19, 2025, dawned with full sun which aligned with my plan to photograph a southbound BNSF Officer Special on the bridge over the Brazos River south of Rio…