Probably switching speed or stopped. There seems to be a crewman on the platform on the short hood end. No headlight but from what I understand, at least on the SP, it did not matter which way you were going, both headlights were to be on.
CEBX 800, 36 axle Schnabel rail car. Special BNSF train with reactor vessel passing through Booth, Texas bound for a refinery in Denver on 3-29-05.
That car appears similar to this one: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/rsPicture.aspx?id=37992 Even without the graffiti the build date info is not obvious, but there is a note indicating that the car was built in 1975.
CP Sand train at Clinton, IA Southbound crossing the Union Pacific Interlocking. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
KCS-led sand train approaching the Mississippi River Drawbridge between Savanna, IL and Sabula, IA. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Taken yesterday in Greenville, SC, NS 153 departs for Birmingham, AL. That's NS 237 to the left, readying to leave for Atlanta.
From that angle, looks like it's rolling right onto those barges! I see no land to the right of those!
Found today in Prosperity, SC is the former Columbia, Newberry & Laurens agency station. You can still see a faint CN&L RAILROAD painted on the door glass. I'm not certain when it was built, but my CN&L book (by F. Will Martin, c. 2012) suggests the mid-1960s when the 1912 depot was razed. The 75-Mile CN&L was acquired by the ACL and is a CSX property today. The agency was closed in the late 1970s and the building is no longer owned by CSX.
She sure could sing! I remember loving her singing even when I was a little kid in the fifties. One of the first times I heard her was on one of those records attached between the pages of a magazine. It was a promotional record for Remington Rollomatic shavers and they had several celebrities singing different standards with modified lyrics to fit shaving. Doug
