GP60 8702 (ex-ATSF 4003, built 5/88) and cousin GP50 3178 (ex-ATSF 3825, built 3/81), both in yellowbonnet paint, made a handsome sight in front of the Quanah Cemetery's American flag, while build... (more)
A westbound Alliance freight is led through the east end of the five miles of double track between Quanah and Acme by FURX (yuck) 7931 (ex-BNSF, BN (C&S), built 4/80) and GP60M 118 (ex-ATSF, built... (more)
Coasting into town on a dispatcher-commanded approach for a signal maintainer, BNSF 4941 East makes a neat sight, entirely trailers with not one flat or well empty. Time - 0957.
After being held for a few minutes for a signal maintainer to 'fix' crossing gates to no avail, a Z continues east at 1023, still having to be flagged across the crossing at restricted speed.
GP60 8702 (ex-ATSF 4003, built 5/88) and GP15-1 1486 (ex-BN 1386, nee-SLSF 111, built 9/77) return east to the yard in "downtown" Quanah after pullling and spotting the wallboard plant at Acme.
Power for the Quanah Local bakes, literally, in the hot afternoon Texas sun. Pretty neat power combo of a GP50 and GP60 for the daily turn on the Chickasha Sub.
Down the hill and right in your face at track speed, a pair of Execs come down the hump into Quanah westbound with empty coal.
Sister Blue Bonnets (BNSFs 3189 and 3192) shove a 40-car load back into the yard in Quanah.
What a shock! NS in Texas! NS 9720 keeps its momentum up with a westbound crushed stone drag with dead-in-tow rent-a-wreck ex-BNSF SD40-2.
Several times I've seen this Bluebonnet along with BNSF 138 running the Chickasha sub through Altus, OK late at night.
A lone BNSF geep idles and chugs on the wye in Quanah. My first GP60M, a sharp-looking little locomotive.
Houston (Parish) to Jacobs Ranch empties meet an eastbound P train at 1758.
ex-ATSF GP38u 2336, nee-ATSF GP38 3536 with BNSF GP39E 2923 (ex-BN GP39E 2923, exx-BN GP35 2524, nee-SLSF GP35 704). Switching setout from the M BARALT.
ex-ATSF GP38u 2336, nee-ATSF GP38 3536
Two possums lead Big Brown empties west hot on the blocks of the E SLPJRM at 1758.
