And there they go. A load of windmill mast sections heading north west on BNSF's Galveston Subdivision in front of the Rosenberg Railroad Museum in Rosenburg, Texas.
Kids and trains. It is that time of year again for Rail Camp at the Museum. Whenever a train goes by, all projects are abandoned to go watch the train. I love being able to mold these railfans for life.
Yeah, we encourage the girls to sign up too. Here is another train that passed. The local through Rosenberg had a faded Pumpkin and a Cub Scout for power yesterday.
Let us return to steam. I have these in my RailImages album, but have re-scanned them with some improvement. Taken at St. Paul, 261 and 2816 backing up after completing a great doubleheader trip back in 2004. The one of 2816 was taken the previous day in Red Wing when 2816 arrived there.
Conductor E.K. Hill of Amarillo, Texas worked on the freight trains for the Santa Fe between Amarillo, Texas and Clovis, New Mexico. Photo is from 1943.
I like the look of that old conductor. He looks like someone who's seen it all and knows where he's going. And won't take any bull from anyone. All the while smoking his pipe.
Here is one. Different attachment on a not so "western" hat but same badge. Perhaps his issued hat wore out and he put the badge on a hat more to his liking.
This is probably what most of us are used to seeing. But note that this is a passenger conductor's hat. Not something a freight conductor would normally be issued and wear. The prior photo, is intriguing not just because of how he has altered his badge to that old brimmed hat, but that he even uses such a badge, and how it is wired up to fit.
Perhaps he acquired the badge when he worked in passenger service and liked it for whatever reason. I guess the railroad was not real picky on how the employees choose to dress, as long as they got the job done. Speaking of dress, this NS locomotive was still wearing the gown of its former owner while working in Roanoke, VA, in July of 2007.
And for trivia's sake, the Tudor style hotel in the background is the Hotel Roanoke, once owned by the N&W and now operated by Hilton. http://roanokerailcam.com/
I believe the rail cam, linked above, is mounted on the pedestrian bridge right behind the cab of the locomotive in my photo. Here it is on Google Street View. The O. W. Link museum in the old N&W depot is just visible on the right.
Russell, you have the most eclectic collection of photographs. Thanks for supplying them for all of us to enjoy.
