Texas Track Car
Widening on 'em
The hogbacks were giving the throttle a workout, judging by the exhaust. UP 951 and friends are toting an officer's special down BNSF's Red River Valley east of Amarillo. I recall that this was not long after the UP/SP merger in 1996. The brass ran this inspection trip to acquaint themselves with their newly acquired trackage rights on the old FW&D between Dalhart and Fort Worth. Previously SP had gained the rights as a condition of the BNSF merger and now the UP had inherited them. Here the three E's and train are giving an eye full to the drivers on US 287. I'd guess the last E-units to travel this route wore the stainless of the Q.
Widening on 'em
The hogbacks were giving the throttle a workout, judging by the exhaust. UP 951 and friends are toting an officer's special down BNSF's Red River Valley east of Amarillo. I recall that this was not long after the UP/SP merger in 1996. The brass ran this inspection trip to acquaint themselves with their newly acquired trackage rights on the old FW&D between Dalhart and Fort Worth. Previously SP had gained the rights as a condition of the BNSF merger and now the UP had inherited them. Here the three E's and train are giving an eye full to the drivers on US 287. I'd guess the last E-units to travel this route wore the stainless of the Q.