Last Friday August 27th I went to Weatherford before work to pick up some items my wife had ordered. When I got tothe store the paperwork was messed up, so while the clerk straightened things out I took a short drive down to the old T&P depot. The old depot is used a feed supply these days, and [...]
A round trip to Sweetwater this past weekend to see my father resulted in the following train pictures worth sharing. First up Saturday morning is the UP 7427 West passing through the green belt in Abilene.
Saturday afternoon in Loraine west of Sweetwater the UP 7922 East is passing over a typically narrow underpass on the [...]
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 [...]
