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The University of Texas first played the University of Oklahoma on a football field in 1900, and the annual game has been played every year since then. It was no…

The previous day while flying the drone I had noticed a large body of water next to the UP Baird Sub just west of Aledo. It was bordered by homes…

I was running an errand in Aledo on the morning of Saturday October 4, 2025 when the radio alerted me that an eastbound train that was too long to fit…

The afternoon of Saturday September 13, 2025 found Judy and I along with friend Harry Stinson from Nashville searching for BNSF trains passing through Brenham, Texas. We had driven down…

The previous post illustrated a ZAILC train on August 9th with three NS and one UP unit for power. On August 25th not only was the train pulled by three…

Recently Union Pacific announced its intention to pursue a merger with Norfolk Southern to result in the country's first transcontinental railroad. It will take the STB at least a year…

Thanks to the railfan grapevine I was aware that an eastbound intermodal out of California that was heading my way on the Baird Sub on August 4th was led by…

On July 7th, 2025, I drove down to Cleburne to visit with friend Jeremy Krauss who was riding Amtrak 22 up from Temple. Heading east on Highway 171from Cresson I…

On June 1st of this year the railfan grapevine was alive with news of CSX's specially painted locomotive northbound on the BNSF out of Houston. I have one of the…

These days Dallas Union Station is known as the Eddie Bernice Johnson Union Station to honor a influential Texas politician. I had a photo assignment there on May 20th and…