Quanah switcher sorting (kicking!) cars for/from Chickasha Sub. and Quanah industries.
A WB manifest rolls off of the huge trestle over Lake Amistad west of Del Rio, TX. The train is accelerating after picking up the lead ballast car which had been in the Amistad siding for repairs... (more)
6422 wrecked as SP 249 on 9/12/98 at Shawnee Jct., WY; to Coast Eng. & Equip. Co., Tacoma, for repairs in 2/99; returned to service as UP 6527 on 9/14/99; Still causing problems today: stopped on... (more)
Westbound (northbound) empties stretch braking toward the siding.
Interrupting Sunday morning church service blowing for the crossings and making a run for the climb out of Marfa.
Eastbound. Just a few more miles of duty left. About 7 miles west of Alpine.
Quanah local power tied up for the weekend.
Quanah local power tied up for the weekend. (GP35U)
Second set of empties to be me at Quanah by the Ft. Worth bound manifest. Railfanning is...chatting with the cowboy hat-clad crew on an unpatched warbonnet.
Westbound Englewood manifest in Sanderson Canyon 3 miles from Sanderson, TX and the Valentine Sub.
"Flag and Flare, minus 1/2 shield" crosses the "Eagle's Nest" portion of Langtry Creek while passing the old stomping grounds of Judge Roy Bean.
Westbound climbing out of the Pecos River Valley. Where's the other half of the wings?
Spofford Switch Engine
CSX power and Tropicana reefers head out are standard on this train. Taking the hole for an eastbound. Crew change is 5 miles away.
Climbing out of Comstock towards the Pecos River Watershed.