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Located in South West TX on the NM border. It is 90 miles east of EL Paso. The Guadalupe Mountains National Park is in the Left part of the mountains in the picture. One of the least visited parks. It is all hiking and primitive camping. There are no roads in the park. On the extreme left is Guadalupe Mountain. It is 8,751 ft. high and is the highest peak in Texas.
Another shot from September 29, 1979 when I rode the Houston section of the Lone Star up to Temple. Temple was an important place for the Gulf Coast & Santa Fe. The slick station in the background here served as the division headquarters and it was a major junction with lines from the southeast (Galveston and Houston), the north (Ft Worth), and the northwest (Sweetwater, Lubbock, and eventually the Transcon) joining here. This set of power is on the engine shop lead. Chop nosed GP7, F7B, and a high hood GP7, wild lashups you could see on the Santa Fe in the late 70’s.
Beaumont, Texas: Historical Marker:
The first county building constructed at this site was a jailhouse completed in 1838, two years after the organization of Jefferson County. Located on land acquired from Nancy Tevis, a pioneer settler of the area, it also housed county offices and courts. When the commissioners court outgrew the facility, sessions were held in private homes. The first courthouse here was completed in 1854. Built by John A. Beaumont, it was a two-story square structure surrounded by a six-foot picket fence. Baptist and Methodist congregations conducted Sunday services in the building and during the Civil War it was leased to D. T. Inglehart, a Confederate surgeon, for use as a hospital. A second courthouse was constructed in 1893, twelve years after the incorporation of Beaumont. Designed by E. T. Heiner, it was a three-story red brick building with white trim. Following the area oil boom of the 1920s it proved inadequate to meet the needs of the growing population and was replaced by the present brick courthouse in 1931. Designed by Fred Stone and A. Babin, the fourteen-story building features art deco styling in the use of sculpted ornamentation and marble interior work.
The Chisos Mountains, looking at the entire 20 miles of length, from the west. The Chisos are the southern most mountains of mainland USA. The tallest point is Emory Peak at 7,825 ft (2,385 m) above sea level. Stunning mountain views across the desert foreground seem to be everywhere at Big Bend National Park (Texas USA). This is a 12 photo stitch panorama taken in mid to late afternoon 20 March 2019.
San Bernardino bound domestic intermodal traffic arrives in Amarillo rounding out the first segment of its westward trip.
Space travelling with a dash of Valerián and Laureline, which was the most influental Sci-Fi graphic novel in my early childhood.
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