Interesting Light on the Kansas Prairie Grasslands
As the moon was setting before dawn on January 18th on the prairie grasslands north of Cassoday, KS, I spotted this interesting composition with two jet contrails crossing each other…
Kansas Road Trip
The morning of Sunday January 16th, I headed north out of Fort Worth on a road trip to Kansas to work for a client. I used the Amtrak app to…
My First CP Special Paint Unit
I received a message from a friend around noon today, January 14th, that a BNSF intermodal train from Clovis to Alliance Yard IMF was being led by the CP's Veteran's…
First Photos of 2022!
My last photo for 2021 of the UP ZAILC passing through Aledo after dark was OK, but at the time to kick off the new year I decided to not…
Last Photo for 2021
The weather here was overcast with rain showers all day so I had little incentive to spend a lot of time out in the field trying for my last photo…
Gravel Train
We had a good holiday season here, and hopefully you did too! Rail traffic has been down as it almost always is between Christmas and New Years but yesterday morning…
A Six Day Streak Broken
Yesterday December 16th marked the end of a six-day streak of BNSF power leading the UP's hot ZAILC Atlanta to Los Angeles "Z" train. BNSF owes UP horsepower hours for…
Four Days Of BNSF Leaders On The UP
On Saturday December 11th the UP ZAILC had a BNSF leader for the second day in a row but it ran very early and I missed it. The next day,…
An Infrequent Visitor
BNSF Railway has trackage rights over the UP Baird Subdivision between Fort Worth and Sweetwater but in recent years only uses them occasionally. Yesterday I learned too late that the…
Two In Two Days
Tuesday Dec 7th and Wednesday December 8th we had two business car trains in north Texas, one from the BNSF and one from Union Pacific. In yesterday's blog post I…