Leaving on a New Orleans - Hattiesburg,Ms trip with an all heavyweight consist - those were the days!
A "wet" southbound Southern Crescent near Laurel,Miss
Southbound crossing the MKT Smithville-Houston line. About 60 miles west of Houston.
Almost past the HB&T shops near downtown Houston
When #30 was built (1947) it had a steam generator for passenger service. It would survive to be repainted in the white paint scheme but as a slug.
Northbound - headed into the siding for the Lone Star
Privately owned #500 was built in 1950 for the Super Chief as one of the celebrated Turquoise Room - Pleasure Dome lounge cars.
May be an F10? The RDC are ex-B&O
On the Sulphur Springs KCS line
AMTK 367 (ex-UP) has just departed the ex-Santa Fe, Ft. Worth station en route to Dallas with that section of the Lone Star.
Eastbound on the now abandoned MKT line about 15 miles west of Houston