Dinosaur Park
Another Rock Island spinoff, the Austin, Todd & Ladd is owned by Wheeler Brother's Grain Company and exists primarily to run grain from the elevators at Watonga down to El Reno, where the operation connects with UP. Here, six of the pike's eight operable units tip-toe around the wye at Geary, OK with a long line of empties, turning from westbound to north to reach Watonga. The track continuing west is the branch to Bridgeport, which appears to be used primarily for car storage, and ends in a gravel pile a couple miles west of its namesake.
The sad piece of machinery in the foreground looks to be CF7 2491, the one non-operable unit on the roster. Parts of its carbody were in a scrap pile located near the railroad's crossing of US Hwy 281 in downtown Geary.
Dinosaur Park
Another Rock Island spinoff, the Austin, Todd & Ladd is owned by Wheeler Brother's Grain Company and exists primarily to run grain from the elevators at Watonga down to El Reno, where the operation connects with UP. Here, six of the pike's eight operable units tip-toe around the wye at Geary, OK with a long line of empties, turning from westbound to north to reach Watonga. The track continuing west is the branch to Bridgeport, which appears to be used primarily for car storage, and ends in a gravel pile a couple miles west of its namesake.
The sad piece of machinery in the foreground looks to be CF7 2491, the one non-operable unit on the roster. Parts of its carbody were in a scrap pile located near the railroad's crossing of US Hwy 281 in downtown Geary.