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Earlier in 2024 I had been asked by Corrender Taylor of the Abilene Preservation League if I would be a presenter at the their first Abilene Railroad Festival August 5th…

On August 20th I left home for a three-day round trip to visit a good friend and take care of personal business. I followed the BNSF from Cleburne to Temple…

At the end of July my wife and I made a quick four-day trip to Moundsville, West Virginia to visit with family. We flew to Pittsburgh on July 27th and…

On the morning of June 25th, looking back on my chase of CP 2816 between Mooringsport, Louisiana and Heavener, Oklahoma, I had caught the train at eight different locations with…

Based on many years of past experiences with large crowds chasing special event trains I had carefully studied maps, Google Earth, railroad schedules and timetables. My goal as always was…

The merger between Kansas City Southern and the Canadian Pacific was finalized in April of 2023 to form the Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC); the first north-south railroad merger to…

In June of 2024, Amtrak provided some interesting moments worth photographing. On June 9th, 2024, the Heartland Flyer was celebrating 25 years of Heartland Flyer Service between Fort Worth and…

Those words gleaned from social media regarding a westbound intermodal that would traverse the UP Baird Subdivision close to home on May 25, 2024, had me getting my camera equipment…

While running errands in Fort Worth on the morning of May 25th, 2024, I caught sight of a southbound BNSF freight with ten locomotives pulling down to Tower 55. The…

Three transit agencies in Texas made up of Denton Transit Authority's "A-Train"; Trinity Merro's "TEXRail" and Capital Metro's "Mertrorail" are already using Stadler's FLIRT (Fast Light Intercity and Regional Train)…