Tiptoe through the mesquite. A caboose hop trundles along it an area that appears to have just had some rail. Photo by Dave Petke, from my collection.
Cotton Belt's local arrives Tyler, Texas yard from Corsicana behind Alco RS-3 309, one of the road's RS-3's originally delivered with a steam generator (for passenger service).
Sitting at Tyler Texas for the Rose Festival.
The Cotton Belt 819 was noted in the early 90's for its runs during the Tyler Rose Festival. Before dawn on what turned out to be a miserable gloomy day, she sits at the modest engine facility at... (more)
Tyelr a.m. local returns to the yard with a string of gondolas from Lufkin Jct.
Westbound on the UP headed for Hearne, TX passes the old Cotton Belt Depot.
The sun was just barely coming up over the horizion and it hit 3985 so it turned the entire locomotive golden in color.
