With the spillway road closed due to 9/11 (security concerns) getting a shot of train and lake together is a bit tougher.
KCS yard engines switching at Tuscaloosa, early morning.
Horse meets Iron Horse! This is not a posed shot....the rider just came up to the tracks a moment or so before the train arrived and the horse was unhappy about the approaching noise and shaking ... (more)
Somewhere...over the rainbow! The skies darken and the rays of sunshine dwindle to just one...but check above the green boxcars for the rainbow!
CTC Board-style "Storm Light." It's pouring down rain but also briliantly sunny!
The end of the line.
A couple of seconds after this shot, the loco "wobbled" hard to the left, about 15 degrees on account of poor track conditions.
Note the fresh ballast. Someone planned on running this line longer than it lasted.
Arriving at the UP yard in Ione for the last time. Check out the "ripples" in the rail. That's more the norm than the exception on this railroad.
I love the smell of brakeshoe smoke in the morning....it's smells like foam.
Last westward run...going over 1895-vintage rail.
