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  1. Headlights for illumination

    Headlights for illumination

    This unit was buried up in the yard with no light around for illumination. We used the head lights and spotlights on the car to light up the side for a creative way to get your shot.
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    • ft rmpx tx up worth
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    • Category: Night Photos
  2. Fixin' To Get Smoke & Soot Covered !!!

    Fixin' To Get Smoke & Soot Covered !!!

    UP#3985 prepares to go under Texas Highway 19 in Lovelady, Tx on way from Houston To Palestine Tx.
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    • 3985 lovelady tx up
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    • Category: Mainline Excursions
  3. Neither Rain Nor Wind............

    Neither Rain Nor Wind............

    Nothing stops folks from big chance to see mainline steam in Texas
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    • 3985 conroe tx up
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    • Category: Mainline Excursions
  4. Big Steam Stops In Conroe, Tx

    Big Steam Stops In Conroe, Tx

    As flash floods swirl in area the Challenger stops in downtown Conroe, Tx
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    • 3985 challenger conroe tx up
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    • Category: Mainline Excursions
  5. UP/SP slug yard job

    UP/SP slug yard job

    SP 7621, UP slug S-12, & UPY 576 (RCL) working the south end of Ney Yard in Fort Worth, TX.
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    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  6. East Bound Parade

    East Bound Parade

    UP 9121, 9282, 2272, & 9567 get the green to head east through Tower 55. Stack train with UP 9476, CEFX 7097 (H1 paint) and UP 2182 waits for a new crew. Bringing up the left side is a local job with UP 3129 & 2048 that already knows they'll be the last in line. In the right of the...
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    • 55 fort tower tx up worth
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    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  7. UP Highway Nightshot

    UP Highway Nightshot

    UP southbound rocktrain stopped on the overpass bridge for IH 20 in south Fort Worth, TX this week long enough for me to get some night shots. It's not as easy as you might think since there are headlights, streetlights and flood lights to deal with. I only got a little lens flare with this one...
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    • bridge fort night tx up worth
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    • Category: Night Photos
  8. BNSF Sulphur Train

    BNSF Sulphur Train

    3-24-4 @ 1730 hrs..North bound on the BNSF Wichita Falls Sub just north of Rhome, TX. EMDX 9017 (Oakway) & BNSF 9227 pull the northbound sulphur train from Galveston, TX.
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    • bnsf emdx falls oakway sulphur tx wichita
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    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  9. Trinity River Bridge Repair

    Trinity River Bridge Repair

    3-2-04 Rail traffic(Crane on new span)
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    • bridge repair river trinity tx urbana
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    • Category: Bridges and Trestles
  10. FWWR Tarantula

    FWWR Tarantula

    2-27-2004 Fort Worth & Western RR 2248 steam excursion train crosses the Trinity River from northside Fort Worth along the old SL-SF bridge. This is an almost daily steam operation through a major metropolitan urban zone so it's neat to find different spots to photograph it from. It wont...
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    • 2248 fort fwwr steam tarantula tx worth
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Tourist Railways - Steam Locomotives
  11. Mobile Infantry

    Mobile Infantry

    BNSF 7860 & 7150 in Saginaw, TX. I didnt realize it was a military train until it came around the bend. I then started looking over my shoulder for the special agents that seem to appear out of nowhere when these specials come through town. Got my pic and scrammed out of there.
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    • bnsf military saginaw tx
    • Comments: 10
    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  12. UP Super Power - 11 units

    UP Super Power - 11 units

    2-26-2004 1330 hrs: West bound mixed freight approaching Mesquite intermodal facility on the slow roll from East Texas. 11 units- UP 1802, NS 9141, UP 4167, UP 3883, UP 6155, UP 6258, UP 4268, UP 3609, PRR 5420 (in Conrail blue), UP 4935, & UP 5983....Kind of difficult to fit them all in...
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    • mesquite ns tx up
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    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  13. First light and first pic of the day.

    First light and first pic of the day.

    2-16-4 @ 0739 hrs: TRE (Trinty Railway Express) 567 leaving the TP station heading for the downtown Intermodal station barely lit by the rising sun.
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    • ft tre tx worth
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Transit, Light Rail and Commuter
  14. TFM on the point of UP autoracks.

    TFM on the point of UP autoracks.

    2-16-4 @ 1224 hrs AKSGP-15(Loaded Auto Multilevels from Armourdale Yards, Kansas City, Kansas to Galena Park/Houston, TX) with TFM 2601 and CSX 8621. South bound on the Midlothian Subdivision heading for Ennis and then Hearne, TX. Seems like it's rare to get a straight UP consist anymore, not...
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    • csx ft tfm tx worth
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    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  15. Challenger thru the Piney Woods

    Challenger thru the Piney Woods

    Challenger Super Bowl Special starts home from Houston. Just passed 7 mile 45 MPH speed restriction and is ready to run!! Phelps, Tx
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    • 3985 challenger phelps tx up
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Mainline Excursions
  16. Remember days gone by..

    Remember days gone by..

    1-27-4 @ 0130 hrs: UP 5112 is tied down for the night at the T&P station platform in downtown Fort Worth. She is pulling an officer's special consist of business cars St. Louis, Cheyenne, and Idaho. The special would leave out by 0630 hrs leaving these shots the only ones I could get. At one...
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    • fort tp tx up worth
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Special Trains, Charters and PV's
  17. I told you Green & Yellow wouldnt last...

    I told you Green & Yellow wouldnt last...

    said the one engine to the other....1-29-4 in Dennison, TX at the M-K-T station. Katy 401B sits rusting away in piece (or to pieces however you want to look at it) while DGNO (Dallas Garland Northeastern) lease power sits quietly nearby. Today's lease power is a sad mix of ex-UP/CNW/CSX. Green...
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    • cefx cnw dennison dgno mkt tx
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    • Category: Vintage Freight Train Photos - Diesel Era
  18. Impact caved in side as well as Front

    Impact caved in side as well as Front

    Side view shows more damage to UP#4502
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    • 4502 conroe tx up wrecked
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    • Category: Union Pacific
  19. TFM on UP

    TFM on UP

    Northbound opn UP Palestine Sub Conroe, Tx with TFM#1423
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    • 3178 conroe tx up
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Union Pacific
  20. DGNO

    DGNO

    This is the DGNO in Greenville on a rock run from Leonard towards Dallas.
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    • 904 dgno dingo emd greenville hatx sd45-2 texas tx
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States


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