Today on Monday the 19th the UP public safety special made a round trip from Odessa to Big Spring and return. After our 6:45am job briefing, members of the operating department along with officers of the UPRR police department and I assembled coolers of iced down water and soft drinks along with sandwich boxes to be [...]
After returning from a succesful wedding shoot in San Antonio on Saturday afternoon, I was on the road again at 10:00am this morning headed for Odessa and the coming week’s grade crossing safety special. The Baird Sub was relatively quiet, and I encountered my first train in the form of the UP 5022 East, seen here between [...]
After leaving the empty BNSF Rock Train behind at Holland, we drove on south down the Waco Sub through Taylor, and then a few miles south of town a northbound headlight announced an empty UP coal train.
This was a long last day at work before the start of two weeks of vacation. I pulled out two slides from the SP box, and they turned out to be of a northbound train on the Rock Island in north central Oklahoma powered by two SD45’s. Check out the dust coming up from the [...]
