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  1. 844 coming to life

    844 coming to life

    844 is steaming to life in Longview Texas on April 21, 2010 awaiting departure to North Little Rock. This will be the beginning of my 90 mile ride to Texarkana aboard the train.
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    • 844 eagle longview texas valley
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    • Category: Mainline Excursions
  2. UP SD60M 2283 Taylor, Texas

    UP SD60M 2283 Taylor, Texas

    power for the LAW51 local includes freshly painted SD60M 2283 at Taylor
    • SWTexan82
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    • pacific sd60m taylor texas union
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    • Category: Union Pacific
  3. BNSF 4714 Taylor , TX

    BNSF 4714 Taylor , TX

    BNSF 4714 comes through Taylor on a rock train headed for Georgetown. Train came off the BNSF at Temple and took trackage rights to the GRR
    • SWTexan82
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    • 4714 bnsf rock taylor texas train
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    • Category: Burlington Northern Santa Fe
  4. UP 1982 in Taylor Texas

    UP 1982 in Taylor Texas

    UP 1982 Leads the Ft. Worth - San Antonio manifest out of Taylor, Texas in the rain on Friday morning September 3, 2010
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    • 1982 heritage locotive missouri pacific taylor texas union
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    • Category: Heritage Units - Union Pacific
  5. CSX 7600

    CSX 7600

    A PSP12 treatment of CSX 7600 thru Rosenberg, Tx Aug 30, 2010.
    • kenw
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    • csx rosenberg texas
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Railroad Art
  6. TM rip track

    TM rip track

    TM 853 prepares to fetch repaired equipment.
    • rgcx
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    • mexican texas
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Regionals and Shortlines
  7. a fallen star

    a fallen star

    The logo of TM 865 was showing its age in 1992.
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    • mexican texas
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Regionals and Shortlines
  8. BNSF 6957

    BNSF 6957

    BNSF , ex Santa Fe SD40-2 6957 sits in the roundhouse area at the BNSF facilities in Temple, Texas
    • SWTexan82
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    • bnsf fe santa sd40-2 temple texas tx
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Burlington Northern Santa Fe
  9. BNSF Lineup Teague, Texas

    BNSF Lineup Teague, Texas

    BNSF 5416 and 7549 Await Departure from the yard in Teague, Texas on July 21, 2010
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    • bnsf burlington fe northern railroad santa teague texas
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Burlington Northern Santa Fe
  10. Back to the yard

    Back to the yard

    TM 853 drags a cut of cars from the border bridge to its original Laredo yard. It is passing the former passenger depot (out of view left) when TM attempted to run its own passenger trains from Laredo to Corpus Christi (1988?). This was my favorite TM diesel.
    • rgcx
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    • mexican texas
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Regionals and Shortlines
  11. TM 854

    TM 854

    Switching at Laredo, Texas. TM 854 was a gp18.
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    • mexican texas
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Regionals and Shortlines
  12. TM Railway

    TM Railway

    The long hood of TM 865
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    • mexican texas tm
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    • Category: Regionals and Shortlines
  13. Down and Up nose stripes

    Down and Up nose stripes

    TM 865 (gp38-2) and GECX 5000 (c630) swap stories on the ready tracks of TM's Laredo yard.
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    • ge mexican texas tm
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Regionals and Shortlines
  14. UP Katy Heritage 1988

    UP Katy Heritage 1988

    UP 1988, the Katy Heritage Unit sits in the UP yard at Taylor, Texas on May 12, 2010
    • SWTexan82
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    • 1988 heritage katy pacific taylor texas union
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Heritage Units - Union Pacific
  15. SP 8580 Taylor, Texas

    SP 8580 Taylor, Texas

    SP 8580 leads the Smithville-Taylor, Texas local out of the UP Taylor Yard Dec 22, 2009
    • SWTexan82
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    • pacific southern sp taylor texas union
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Union Pacific
  16. Belle-Art

    Belle-Art

    A pair of KCS Retro-Belles roll east thru Rosenberg, Texas on their way to Houston with a very short train. The edits are courtesy of PaintShop Pro, the original is from a Canon 50d with 28-135 IS at 28mm.
    • kenw
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    • belle kcs retro texas
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Railroad Art
  17. Belles in Winter

    Belles in Winter

    This is about as "wintery" as SE Texas will look...color courtesy of KCS.
    • kenw
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    • belle kcs rosenberg texas
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Kansas City Southern
  18. BN Caboose 12312 Teague, Texas

    BN Caboose 12312 Teague, Texas

    BN Caboose 12312, now downgraded to a shoving platform is on the end of a maintenance of way train at Teague, Texas on Jan 30, 2010
    • SWTexan82
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    • bnsf burlington caboose fe northern platform santa shoving teague texas
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Caboose
  19. BNSF 6313 At Kirvin, Texas

    BNSF 6313 At Kirvin, Texas

    BNSF 6313 sits on a Big Brown Coal Train at the FM 80 Crossing in Kirvin, Texas at dusk on Friday Night, October 16, 2009
    • SWTexan82
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    • bnsf burlington coal dfw fe kirvin northern railroad santa sub teague texas
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Burlington Northern Santa Fe
  20. CSX 7686 in Taylor, Texas

    CSX 7686 in Taylor, Texas

    CSX 7686 on UP train MSAFW in the Taylor, Texas yard
    • SWTexan82
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    • csx railroad taylor texas
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: CSX


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