Highlights from March 19th
Saturday March 19th turned out to be a pretty good day over all. I had been tied up during the latter part of the week when newly rebuilt ex-Amtrak F40's…
Nineteen Car Passenger Train
Saturday, March 12th was my next time to get out for a special train. The UP deadheaded a nineteen car passenger train from the car shops in Council Bluffs to…
Two Encounters With UP 1989
In the approximately seventeen years since the UP released their six heritage units into service, early on I systematically captured digital images of all of them in pristine condition. These…
A Cold and Rainy Day at the Stockyards
The title of this blog pretty well says it all. The weather was not pleasant with heavy overcast and a cold rain falling on the afternoon of Sunday, February 26th.…
Employee Pride Meets MP Heritage
Shortly after 7:00 am Sunday morning February 20th, I learned the MFWBM Fort Worth to Bellmead (Waco) manifest train was getting ready to leave Ney Yard in Fort Worth headed…
Heading Home from the Super Bowl
Union Pacific ran a 29-car Heritage Fleet train with two SD70M's to the Super Bowl, and afterwards they split it into two sections. One unit and 18 cars headed directly…
On the Road to Linden, Texas
This last Friday afternoon February 11th, Judy and I drove to Marshall, TX to spend the night so as to not get up so early Saturday morning for a visit…
Patience Pays Off
On Thursday February 10th the sun rose into a perfectly cloudless sky, and so I decided to head up to the Wabtec locomotive facility in far north Fort Worth. My…
Even Colder Day Catches
Overnight starting on Wednesday, February 2nd, a well anticipated front arrived that brought us rain first followed by freezing rain, sleet and finally some snow this morning, Thursday the 3rd.…
Cold Day Catches
When I was loading my Explorer at the hotel in El Dorado, Kansas on the morning of January 19th, the temperature was 23 degrees with a wind chill of 9…