The eastbound Sunset Limited glides by old Tower 3 on a brisk winter morning in downtown Flatonia. The locomotive sports a special paint scheme honoring the men and women of the United States Arme... (more)
Amtrak's Texas Eagle crosses the Blanco River and the old Post Road as it proceeds north along the Balcones Escarpment bound for Fort Worth and Dallas and eventually Chicago.
The Espee lives on in 2013. Only a handful of unpatched units remain on UP's roster and I doubt they will last much longer, this one returning to glory for a lead run on a high priority Z train.
A pair of UP heritage units lead this San Antonio-Fort Worth manifest north on the Waco Sub. The consist was UP 1988, UP 1996, UP 8614, UP 799, HLCX 3842 and HLCX 3148.