CSX had one of these on the Gulf Coast cleaning up after Hurricane Katrina. However there was no one in the cab. The boom operator was controlling the truck from his perch. Surprising at first glance.
Iowa Interstate 516 running longhood forward with today’s SACR South by Walford, IA Also in the consist was the Slug/Mother set, 651/721. February 25, 2019
Pacing a BNSF train along US Highway 287 in North Texas back in the summer of 2005. My daughter was driving so it was ok.
Maybe there's no turn-around (wye or other) where they're going or where they're coming from? Likely they just run around via a siding to switch ends. Or the engineer was an old veteran from N&W or Southern.
In June of 2000, I made the Los Angeles "Turn" from Houston on the Sunset Limited. In LA, I got off the train while they cleaned it and turned it around to come back on. Just a good part of a week riding the train, taking pictures, eating in the diner and meeting lots of people. Here is a photo from a stop while heading west.
Yep, cant hide SP heritage. Blank out over Gyra light opening, removed UDE on the nose, horizontal headlight, P3 horn.
There is a wye east of the yard. More than likely they chose not to wye the power until after they returned from Cedar Rapids or run the train on the west leg instead of the east leg to shove in to the yard. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I thought SP, but I wasn't sure if it was Cotton Belt. I know little about either RR. I knew it wasn't D&RGW!
In the last couple years I have been spending a lot of time at the Austin Steam Train Association yard in Cedar Park, Texas working on some passenger cars they are leasing from the Gulf Coast Chapter of the National Railway Historical Association in Houston. I also help out occasionally with some of the other cars that are owned by ASTA. Going through my old slides from July of 2004 of a visit to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, Minnesota, I recognized two of the cars from Austin that I rode on at that time in Minnesota in their excursion train along the north shore of Lake Superior. They looked much nicer back then and are in need of fresh paint. The Milwaukee Road painted Buckeye Lake was built in 1949 for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. The Buckeye Trail was built for the New York, Chicago and St. Louis (Nickel Plate) Railroad. The ASTA folks say they will repaint them to their original as built paint schemes when they get the funds to do so.
