An Evening in Hinsdale
The evening of May 6th earlier this year found me in Chicago waiting to start a photo assignment the next day. The rest of the crew was on a later…
Bucket List Short Line
February 21st as I headed west on I40 through Arizona I unexpectedly accomplished one of my railfan bucket list items. Passing through Holbrook I looked down the tracks and spotted…
After Dark in Clovis
February 20th found me on the road to Arizona, and before stopping in Fort Sumner, New Mexico for the night I passed through Clovis around 9:00 pm. I was pleasantly…
Two Perspectives of the Same Train
Pleased with the results I treated myself to lunch at BBQ on the Brazos here in Cresson. On the surface of the wakeboard pond outside I spotted this gaggle of…
Fall in Aledo
Today I drove the few miles to Aledo, Texas to have an early lunch at "Poquito Mas" (A Little More). When I arrive the "79 Local" from Fort Worth to…
KCS Railway Honors Its Employee Veterans
Kansas City Southern had asked me to keep it confidential and so I left the house at 5:00am on Veteran's Day and drove to Shreveport to photograph their repaint of…
New Roy Hill Mining Locomotives
Living near to the new GE Plant in north Fort Worth has its advantages so for today we will stray from the Missouri trip account to show today's catch. This…
A Charger to Start the Day
While I was in Kansas City last December with the BNSF Christmas Special I missed getting a photo of one of Amtrak's Siemens Charger SC-44's by a few minutes so…
Five Trains on Two Subdivisions in Perry
In early April I started out on a business trip to Missouri. I left on April 4th and 64 miles north of Oklahoma City I made a stop in Perry…
An Era Comes to a Close
March 31st, 2018 marked the end of an era stretching back fifteen or so years at Metro, TX near Denton. The KCS would bring a block of loaded intermodal cars…