On April 2nd I took the day off from work to run errands before leaving Friday morning for Flatonia to attend Saturday’s spring Railfan Pavilion Day. Early on I got a call that the BNSF 9647 was southbound on the UP Choctaw Sub with a loaded coal train and that the Katy Heritage Unit [...]
My first of three days at Abo was coming to a close, and next the dispatcher told an eastbound empty coal train it would be stopping at Sias to meet two westbounds that would come through the canyon as soon as the HBARTUL9 had cleared West Scholle. The sun came out for a few minutes [...]
Today’s blog photo was taken just a little over one-half hour ago at 4:39pm on the way home from work in Boaz Park in Benbrook of a westbound UP merchandise train with a CSX GEVO leading.
I picked up a Canon Powershot SD870is at a close-out sale for CompUSA so as to have a small camera I could [...]
Did I forget to mention yesterday what was leading the southbound BNSF grain train that brought us together at Tower 55? A brand new KCSM SD70ACe looking great in the late afternoon low light it emerged into from beneath the interstate overpasses and approached our photo line.
