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…
WP Heritage Visits the FWWR
I am an avowed opponent of graffiti on freight cars but even I have to admit the Rug Rats depiction on this hopper is pretty…
The Road to Amarillo
February 26th found me driving from Fort Worth to a photographic engagement in Amarillo. The first train I encountered on the Wichita Falls Sub was an eastbound loaded coal train holding…
Seconds to Spare at 4:35pm
February 13th here is a cloudy and chilly day with a few drops of rain now and then. I ran a few errands in Fort Worth this afternoon and when…
What a Difference a Day Makes
Yesterday when Dave and I were out shooting the Amtrak diversion we were in shirtsleeves and the temperature was up around 60 with sunny skies. Now less than 24 hours…
Finishing Up a Diversion
Today Friday February 9th was the last of the three-day diversion of Amtrak 21 and 22 over the UP instead of the BNSF between Temple and Fort Worth due to…