Nice one, Patrick! I could not get that close to that particular car when I visited. For those unfamiliar with Sanderson, it is near the site of one (if not "the") of the last Wild West train robberies. On a day in 1912, a brave railroad employee saved the day for Southern Pacific by killing hitting one of the robbers over the head and killing him, then using the dead man's gun to shoot and kill Ben Kilpatrick, a member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch. Both dead men were propped up in front of the Sanderson depot for photographs, and then buried in the same coffin in Sanderson.
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Very interesting to see it still maybe available for use in 2014, and thanks for sharing! Another old fire car guarded the Huey P. Long Bridge over the Mississippi River just above New Orleans until at least 2005. You can see most of it (painted red) at bottom right in my picture: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=127374. Somehow I think it is gone now, and I really drop the ball not getting some good shots of such a piece of history.
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