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Here's the new "BNSF" diner #448 on the rear of today's Amtrak #4, along with a pair of Surfliners. This car has been leased by the BNSF to replace the fire-damaged "Lake Superior" that caught fire back on May 26th. The hastily-relettered car is in a font completely new to the railroad. Interestingly, the same car had been in Iowa Pacific's IC paint just a few weeks ago, when I shot it in Omaha on May 15th. From what I've gathered, I guess the "paint" on this car was just a vinyl wrap.
Amtrak Train 21 makes its station stop at Poplar Bluff on the UP Hoxie Sub. at 03:48, which was 4 hours, 6 minutes late. The train had quite the inflated consist tonight with 3 units, 15 cars, 8 revenue cars and 7 private cars which were being moved to Fort Worth for the Iowa Pacific Holdings' High Iron Travel "Front Range Explorer" rare mileage special. The train was to depart FTW on May 31st, arriving in Minneapolis on June 6th, but the guests already onboard wound up with nearly 200 rare miles before the trip even officially started, being that the line via Dexter hasn't seen regular passenger service since the 1960's.
The Texas Eagle is detouring via the UP Chester and Hoxie Subs. between St. Louis and here due to continuing track work on the UP De Soto Sub., the train's normal route. The conductor's radio died during the station stop resulting in what wound up being a quintuplet spot and a shove back for passengers and UP Pilot Crew members by the time the issue was sorted out.
Here the train is about to shove north a few car lengths to allow coach passengers to disembark and board, under the direction of the Amtrak Assistant Conductor controlling the move.
Private cars on this move listed from the head of the train are as follows:
SLRG 9115 “Baton Rouge”, PPCX 800028, Pullman-Standard 1956 Ex-SAL Sleeper.
SLRG 9660 “Colorado Pine”, PPCX 800563, Pullman-Standard 1953 Ex-L&N Sleeper.
SLRG Painted “Belleville”, MRLX 800712, Budd 1952 Ex-CB&Q Sleeper.
SLRG 448, PPCX 800448, Budd 1947, Ex-NYC Diner.
SLRG 1394 “Prairie View”, PPCX 800606, Budd 1955 Ex-GN Full Dome.
SLSF 1466 “Cimarron River”, PPCX 800069, Pullman-Standard 1948 Ex-Frisco Sleeper.
SLRG 1 “Caritas”, PPCX 800045, Pullman-Standard 1948, Ex-Frisco Sleeper rebuilt as an observation lounge car.
Both former Frisco cars came from P-S lot #6769, and in this photo are only two blocks from where the Frisco cut through Poplar Bluff prior to 1965. The depot still stands, and today is home to the Mo-Ark Regional Railroad Museum.
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Poplar Bluff, MO
Iowa Pacific's unnamed Budd Diner #800448 brings up the markers on the westbound California Zephyr while deadheading to IP's shop in Alamosa, CO.
Here, its seen at the east end of the former Burlington platform in Omaha, NE, and if you squint just a little bit, it could surely pass for a scene out of the 60's.
This Baird's Tapir (scientificname) and Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus), were photographed in Panama, as part of a research project utilizing motion-activated camera-traps.
You are invited to go WILD on Smithsonian's interactive website, Smithsonian WILD, to learn more about the research and browse photos like this from around the world.