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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…

On Wednesday, October 15, 2025, I had received intel that a southbound BNSF freight had Eight new Wabtec ES44AC's painted for Tren Maya and heading to Mexico for delivery. I…

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…