Texas Track Car
3rd Street Viaduct
BN GP30M 2801 and train continue east across the bridge and fill above West 3rd Avenue near the intersection with Adams street. Sharp-eyed viewers will note the grade crossing in the foreground below the train. These two spurs were once on the "city lead" and served a steel yard and scrap yard. Oh how I wish I would have waited two more seconds to frame the engine better. But something is better than nothing now. This portion of the line is intact and used by the Union Pacific as a car storage lead.
This is one of a series of images documenting the Bushland branch of the Burlington Northern west of Amarillo, BN's Fort Worth & Denver inherited a chunk of the Rock Island's Choctaw Route after the demise of the Rock in 1980. The line ran from downtown Amarillo west along I-40 to a Southwest Portland Cement plant just west of Bushland, Texas. These are a selection of photos from the last few years of operation in the late 1980's and early 1990's. They've held up pretty good considering they were shot on C-41 print film, probably at around 400 ISO, so please forgive the finer points of composition and grain.
3rd Street Viaduct
BN GP30M 2801 and train continue east across the bridge and fill above West 3rd Avenue near the intersection with Adams street. Sharp-eyed viewers will note the grade crossing in the foreground below the train. These two spurs were once on the "city lead" and served a steel yard and scrap yard. Oh how I wish I would have waited two more seconds to frame the engine better. But something is better than nothing now. This portion of the line is intact and used by the Union Pacific as a car storage lead.
This is one of a series of images documenting the Bushland branch of the Burlington Northern west of Amarillo, BN's Fort Worth & Denver inherited a chunk of the Rock Island's Choctaw Route after the demise of the Rock in 1980. The line ran from downtown Amarillo west along I-40 to a Southwest Portland Cement plant just west of Bushland, Texas. These are a selection of photos from the last few years of operation in the late 1980's and early 1990's. They've held up pretty good considering they were shot on C-41 print film, probably at around 400 ISO, so please forgive the finer points of composition and grain.