A Cub Scout at Rosenberg, Texas back before there was BNSF. And before the Southern Pacific flag fell. You can see an SP bloody nose leading a train east along the Sunset Route right behind the whistle post.
December 9, 1986 at Drake, Arizona. Notice the outfit car and steam engine era water tank. The Clarkdale Branch connects with the Peavine in Drake. David Wiegand photo.
Absolutely concur. I think it's the slant nose of the early Es that does it. Same, for me, in terms of the Alco DL-109s. Just sharp.
The bridge over the Canadian River, just north of Amarillo on the Boise City Sub, from Amarillo to Boise City, which was constructed in 1931.
I have never previously noticed, but interesting to see the bridge company name on many of the girders. Could this have been normal? Or was this an advertising photo?
In one of my Great Northern books, there's a few picks of the new Chumstick Cut-off in 1929 and all the new bridge panels all had American Bridge Co on them.
Hudson 3457 leaving Belen, NM heading for Vaughn June 16, 1953. (Who said Hudson’s didn’t pull freight?) photo by Stan Kistler.
Higgins, Texas in 1905. Higgins is a small town on the Santa Fe in Lipscomb County. It's roughly 125 miles northeast of Amarillo, about a mile from the border with Oklahoma.
Missouri, 1946. The Scout was known to break in streamlined equipment during that period, as they worked up to making the El Capitan a daily train.
I don't think so. Between the RPO, which suggests a regularly scheduled train, the two fast locomotives (a 2-8-2 could handle it) and the shiny new streamlined cars, it doesn't smell like one.
Two of Santa Fe’s courier-nurses show off newly redesigned uniforms as they pose with one of the road’s Hi-Level coaches in 1969. ATSF photo. A different pose from the one previously posted.
Back when we lived in Colorado Springs and traveled to the Dallas area to see family, we would stop to take photos of the bridge over the Canadian. Twice I was fortunate and saw a train or locomotives crossing the bridge. Here are a couple of shots. Not the same flavor as the older vintage shots, but interesting to see the multiple unit lashup headed souithbound to Amarillo.The final unit appears to be an old GP-30!
