Today here in Fort Worth has been overcast, cold and rainy. I had learned the SP heritage unit was the trailing DPU on the Z-MQLC this morning, but while it is snowing less than 100 miles to the west, that was too far to drive with Christmas eve commitments. The train was due [...]
Tuesday afternoon a few minutes before the BNSF executive train was scheduled out of the Stockyards to run to Cresson and back over the FWWR with a group of BNSF employees I drove to the old AT&SF siding at Primrose on the Dublin Sub just east of Lake Benbrook. I wanted a long telephoto [...]
After a weekend full of UP, BNSF, FWWR and the WGRF group, Monday October 17th was a day of rest. Tuesday the 18th however things got busy around here again. In the morning the American Association of Private Rail Car Owners (AAPRCO) special train of 20 or so privately-owned railcars was due to [...]
On Sunday October 16th after leaving the WGRF group at Davidson Yard, I was glad there were no traffic jams on I30 or I35 and I made it to the Stockyards in twenty minutes. That gave me ten minutes to spare before I was scheduled to take this group picture of members of The [...]
