Late last Sunday afternoon August 15th I headed over to Aledo, TX on the UP Baird Sub just west of Fort Worth as some interesting thunderheads were growing back to the east. I needed a westbound train to take advantage of the evening light on the clouds, but the first train was an eastbound just [...]
Entering Tower 55 I was surprised to find no sign of the signal guys who had been officing there and the air conditioning turned off. The temperature was easily around 100 degrees, so I quickly opened two windows to get a breeze going through there. Looking north I could see Amtrak train 22 waiting for the signal [...]
On Wednesday afternoon I had a photo assignment from the BNSF that took me to Tower 55. As I made the first turn climbing the metal staircase on the outside wall I looked up and east towards the Ginnie Yard. A westbound UP intermodal was on the approach, and luckily I had my camera around [...]
Driving northwest out of Cleburne on highway 171 alongside the FWWR tracks you soon come to a spot where the railroad built a two-track yard and named the location ”Windmill.” FWWR purchased 70.8 acres north of the tracks that has been divided up into smaller units and dubbed the Cleburne Railpark. A service lead has been put down
and the first [...]
