The Visitors Head Home
Well not all the way back to Canada, but as far as Iowa anyway leading an empty grain train from Eagle Pass back north up the BNSF Fort Worth Sub.…
Older Visitors From The North
Thursday August 13th dawned clear and relatively cool as I prepared for a purely railfan adventure. A loaded grain train from Iowa to the Mexican border crossing at Eagle Pass…
Fort Worth Skyline
Wednesday morning August 12th found me downtown performing aerial photography for a mass transit customer, and at one point I noticed a southbound BNSF autorack train starting to pull south…
Drone Check
On Tuesday August 11th I decided to take the drone out for a few test flights as I had a photo shoot scheduled for the next day. With the current…
Four ACe’s
A brief trip to Joshua on the BNSF Fort Worth Sub this morning at first reaped this photo of a northbound empty grain train with four units up front at…
Wednesday Morning in Joshua
When I first looked outside on the morning of Wednesday August 5th, I could see clouds to the north but the skies were sunny elsewhere. I felt like getting out…
Another “One and Done”
Monday August 3rd I learned from a friend that a southbound loaded coal train approaching Fort Worth had the UP's Southern Pacific heritage locomotive number 1996 leading. I had a…
One and Done on Friday
On Friday July 31st I learned an eastbound UP merchandise train on the nearby Baird Sub had the 1989 Rio Grande heritage engine leading. As it was now late afternoon…
Two Days Around Fort Worth – Part Two
Monday morning JUly 27th dawned with more activity on the Fort Worth & Western than we had encountered the day before so Mark St. Aubin and I headed to Cresson.…
Two Days Around Fort Worth – Part One
On Sunday July 26th friend Mark St. Aubin was in town for two days and I promised to help him find some trains to photograph. Fort Worth & Western was…