SB Assembling at Historic Herington
This southbound on the Texas line is assembling its train for departure. IIRC the flash went off inadvertently and lit up the Scotchlite strip on the front of the locos. There was just enough overcast to allow it to affect the photo.
For a while after the Rock Island bankruptcy, as the Cotton Belt (SP) acquired the Tucumcari line, an MKT subsidiary 'Oklahoma, Kansas & Texas (OKKT)' took over this Texas line from Herington to the south. Naturally, this connection was homogenized when the UP acquired both the SP and MKT. Not far behind the camera would have been the Missouri Pacific's Pueblo mainline, which the UP has since taken up except for a spur west of town. The Rock's branch line to Abilene and Salina left to the west a bit north of this area and is now gone up to Enterprise where the remaining line becomes the Abilene & Smoky Valley Ry.
Herington, KS
1980 depot view: flic.kr/p/2qu9WjX
SB Assembling at Historic Herington
This southbound on the Texas line is assembling its train for departure. IIRC the flash went off inadvertently and lit up the Scotchlite strip on the front of the locos. There was just enough overcast to allow it to affect the photo.
For a while after the Rock Island bankruptcy, as the Cotton Belt (SP) acquired the Tucumcari line, an MKT subsidiary 'Oklahoma, Kansas & Texas (OKKT)' took over this Texas line from Herington to the south. Naturally, this connection was homogenized when the UP acquired both the SP and MKT. Not far behind the camera would have been the Missouri Pacific's Pueblo mainline, which the UP has since taken up except for a spur west of town. The Rock's branch line to Abilene and Salina left to the west a bit north of this area and is now gone up to Enterprise where the remaining line becomes the Abilene & Smoky Valley Ry.
Herington, KS
1980 depot view: flic.kr/p/2qu9WjX