This year is probably the 2nd most bountiful year for bluebonnets that I've seen in the last 25 years. [ Last year was a complete bust.] *Best stretches are:* Burnet to Marble Falls Marble Falls to Ki

Anyone get photos yet along the Sunset Route through there? I read reports of snow in Big Bend, Terlingua, Marfa, and Alpine and up in Santa Fe and Las Vegas NM.

This video by Dwayne Stevens (Railspotter?) shows the ONM&P/Santa Fe in its last days, plus some scenes from an earlier decade. Ringling Road tribute

Thanks, Barton. There are several subsequent substantive messages on this topic, and I'm not going to be able to get to all of them today (and probably not any after this one), but I'd like to acknowl

*Where in Llano TX was it located to have H&TC rail service?*

*Latest news on its re-opening:* https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article273294980.html CLOSE pop-up ads including one to subscribe to the *Ft. Worth Star-Telegram * in order to rea

My two cents. The value of the Choctaw route was the value of Memphis-West Coast traffic. To SP/SSW, it was the value of the Brinkley-Memphis leg. To ATSF, it was the value of the Amarillo-Memphis leg

Prof. Gerald Hook reminded me that scenes in the 1939 movie "Jesse James" were filmed with D&R equipment on an abandoned Frisco (or was it KCS?) branch. "Jesse James"

The Industrial History blogger frequently posts blogs of railroad interest in addition to his other features on works of engineering. Today he features the two interlocking towers for Dallas Union Ter

Are there any railroad intermodal facilities anywhere in the state of New Mexico? If so, where are they? Have there ever been any railroad intermodal facilities in New Mexico that have closed? When wa

Includes New Mexico in addition to Colorado and includes photography by the late Fred Springer. Last of Rio Grande steam

The name of the merged railroads: CPKC I think I would have preferred Canadian Pacific Southern or Canuck & Cajun.

Author and former SP employee, David Bernstein, has released his book on the former Dallas and Austin Divisions of the SP. So far it's only in digital format unlike his previous work on the San Antoni

Commentary by Fred Frailey and Kevin Keefe on *:* J. Parker Lamb and his photography ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=625WA7VJj1w )

Group Yesterday, an unloaded Schnable car and caboose went down UP's rockport branch. It was not loaded. The only customer on that branch that would need that car is City Public Service, the San Anton

Here is an update! I found a 1982 article on this issue! Success! By the way, you can join my little-used Railroads Of North America group, where I originally post these posts: https://groups.io/g/Rai

Amtrak and the Southern Rail Commission are requesting funds to study passenger service from Meridian Miss to Dallas and Ft. Worth via Vicksburg and Shreveport. [San Antonio Express-News 3/14/23] Wasn

I wish to return to a subject that, per my searching of old e-mail messages last night, was discussed, along with my participation, on the Railspot group just a little bit more than 10 years ago! One

At 80 mph: Pacing

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