This coal train just unloaded at the Mountaineer Power Plant, heading east to a coal mine near Grafton,WV On the Ohio River Sub. Curtis
Continuing with another shot from the 1989 NRHS meet in Asheville, NC, NKP 587 smokes up SD-40-2 3214. Yep, that's N&W 1218 at the right. It was a fine time.
Nice shot! To make it all perfect, that diesel needs to be an Alco. All smoking section... Interesting GP40X, Russell. I believe CP inherited a few of those. Gotta look that up.
Then there's the classy little Alco's on the City of Prineville Railway The Alco's were replaced by some Milwaukee homemade GP20's in the 1980's
BNSF eastbound & CSX westbound meet at Minot a couple weeks ago. Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk
A ballast train Blocking a train show, that is the only one in Houston currently as the musueum is moving.
Late Spring of 2011. Snow melt & heavy rains were causing big troubles on Marias Pass. M-O-W crews and a work train on each side of the mountains were trying to unplug culverts, and fill those washouts. Here Work Extra 1690 has come down to the siding at Glacier Park (East Glacier) to allow the first westward train (a Z-CHCPTL) to pass, as the line was just re-opened:
Yeah, I remember that. To get to the train show at the Stafford Center from Highway 90 onto Murphy Road, I had to loop around on Avenue E in Stafford to take the FM1092 underpass to get under the railroad. The at grade feeder roads crossing the Sunset were blocked by that ballast train. I heard that the UP will have the new double track through Stafford open as far as Sugar Land sometime in May.
The Texas Railroading Heritage Museum will open at its new site in Tomball, Texas at an undetermined date in the future. As things stand right now, the new site has been secured, a site survey has been completed but we are waiting on a site plan to be completed before we can do any engineering. We also have to come up with a lot of grant money and other funding to get the track installed before we can move the collection to the site. Currently we are still working on restoring an maintaining the collection that is in storage on an industrial spur in east Houston. https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7573177,-95.3352828,404m/data=!3m1!1e3 As far as holding the Great Texas Train Show at the George R. Brown convention center, I do not know when and if we will sponsor the next show. The gentleman who was organizing those events is burned out and no one else in the group has stepped forward to carry the torch. It takes an inordinate amount of time and work to put one together. And I am not that person for sure.
Has the depot been bulldozed? Years ago I corresponded with a fellow who was the Soo Agent at Max. Busy place at one time, doing the RR's paperwork....
