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FWWR delivers the final two cars of the first Stadler DMU train to Grapevine.  The power car and the other two passenger cars were already in Grapevine after arriving by…

I got word late this morning July 22nd that BNSF was using their trackage rights on the Union Pacific's Baird Sub today for the first time in a good while…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…