A pair of ex-KATY GP7's are parked at the Sabine River & Northern Railroad shops in Orange, Texas. SRN 1751 was built as MKT 1504. SRN 1759 began life as MKT 1503. Both were built in 1950.
Train 100 eases down the steep grade coming into the hollow with an afternoon Christmas train in tow. The railroads’s former C&O GP7 does the honors for the season.
Crescent is where the B&M - D&H trackage splits 9.7 miles west of Mechanicville. My notes are incomplete but retired B&M dispatcher Wayne Hills suspects this westbound is a "short turn"... (more)