Blog Posts

I returned to Purina Junction on May 13th, 2025 to capture a special move. Due to UP trackwork east of Dallas, on certain days Amtrak 21 would run from Chicago…

On April 21st, 2025, I had plans to head to Fort Worth to take some drone stills north of Tower 55. I had a stop to make first as I…

Last year in 2024 we had several very thick patches of bluebonnets near the track on FWWR's Dublin Sub east of Cresson. This year I headed back that way on…

April 1st, 2025, brought us an eastbound manifest on the UP Baird Sub with eight locomotives on the point. The local railfan group was gathered here at intermediate signal 270.5…

On 2025/03/21 the UP's M-K-T heritage locomotive #1988 paid north Texas an early morning visit. I knew the locomotive was fairly dirty, but the sun was out, so I decided…

Thursday evening, I started to hear talk of a UP Engineering Department Special somewhere west of Fort Worth. By the next morning on Friday March 7th I learned that one…

March 01, 2025, dawned as a beautiful Saturday in north Texas and I decided to fly my Mavic 3 Classic over the UP Baird Sub less than 10 minutes from…

Thursday, February 13th marked the return trip of BNSF's Super Bowl train from New Orleans back to Topeka by way of Houston and Fort Worth. On the southbound trip I…

I had no definite plans when I woke up on Friday February 03 of 2025, but a message soon changed that. BNSF was in running a 17-car passenger train out…

Yesterday, Friday January 10, 2025 I attended a friend's funeral in Fort Worth. Afterwards I decided to see if I could find any westbound trains with the prevailing afternoon light…