Someone left behind a Canon digital camera at the Flatonia Pavilion Party on Saturday (This is NOT an April Fools joke..! ). I was the last person to leave &...
When Was The Former SAAP Giddings-Waco Branch Finally Abandoned??I Didn't Realize It Until A Few Years Ago That The Espee Ran Through Rosebud.I Was Visiting My...
... that I know ... terminal ... through the ... name ... Railroad ... Columbus in ... from T. J. ... handle ... Railroad. The ... switching ... Alliance ... ...
... on the T&L Lines. It discusses the 14 gasoline-electric motor cars then in service and their cost savings and high availability to the railroad. ... up...
... places on ... and/or ... Okay.This Isn't Much,But It Might Help You some.The MK5 Mikado Was Sold To The Grapevine Railroad In 2002 or 2003.I Heard That The...
... at the ... comment was ... in the ... tracks? ... Houston. ... both the ... really ... we ... I ... tower (115?) ... was.) ... semaphores in town. ... ran...
... I Really Couldn't Tell You Gary.I Do remember The Rock Trains Coming Through Flatonia In The 80's and 90's.I Don't Remember Any GVSR Hoppers On Them.I Do...
... For The ... it's a ... in ... along ... watched trains. ... As Far as Is Known,It should Be In service By Next Year.In The Texas Almanac Map Of Wharton...
... Chances Are,If It was A Former Pacific Electric GE 44 Tonner Used On The Branch,It Was Probably In The Late 50's-Early 70's.Motive Power I Saw At Gonzales...
Could that have been the same 44-tonner that went to the Moscow, Camden and San Augustine? Charles Weston San Antonio ... When was this train sheet issued? All...
The Grapevine Mikado (eng 771) was delivered to Grapevine on December 14, 2003. (see the files for my photos) The intent was for Grapevine to restore the...
Operations in Victoria appear to be increasing at a steady rate. MY IMPRESSION is that when the Shiner Branch was rehabbed in 2003/2004, that district speed...
I believe that the SP was using the Fe to get to the Rosebud spur before 1972. This was the last portion to operate. HJH [Non-text portions of this message...
Forgot to mention that lots of track work has been done the last few months; a Geometry car was southbound in mid-march; and tampers, etc. would tie up at...
Gary Rodriguez was asking about the date on the train sheet. I didn't, unfortunately, write down the date but if memory serves, it was 1957 or 1958. I was...
Perhaps I can help with a little history of the Glidden Yards, During the early 1950s. I was a brakeman for the T&NO, normally working the west end (SA to Del...
Interesting.It's Interesting To Know That The Shiner Branch Is Getting More Traffic.During The 80's and Right Up Until The '96 Merger,Northbound Freights...
Although this is a T&NO list, I am going to state that I grew up in Victoria and railfanned there and the area from the mid 70s to the mid 90s (obviously not...
Topics after the T&NO's merger into the SP are welcome too, as long as it relates to the former T&NO area of Texas and Louisiana. So, ok to post on the list. ...
A list of some line retirements forwarded to me. Carl San Antonio to Stockdale – retired circa 1959 Stockdale to Cuero – retired circa 1972 Kenedy to...
Additions: Service to Alice (Skidmore - Falfurrias ?) 6/1984 Sandy Main at Placedo Across the Brownie - 2003 (both ends are still in service; but can be...
Hey Leonard, It's OK to talk about former T&NO lines. See the TNO Yahoo webpage: "The TNO list covers the history and operations of the Texas and Louisiana ...
... Was ... Depots On ... JP, per David Bernstein's book, the Giddings to Cameron portion was abondoned in 1959, the Rosebud to Waco in 1967. Hope this helps....
Spofford to Camp Wood? Spofford to Eagle Pass still operates, of course. Uvalde to Camp Wood was the Uvalde Northern, and I think it gave up in 1942....
TABunch Charlie!!I While I Never Got To See Espee Operations In Rosebud,My Grandparents Lived In Kosse,So I Had Plenty Of Memories of ESpee Operations ...
I Think I Read That The Burnet-Lampasas Line Was Abandoned In The Early Fifties and The Luling-Lockhart Line Was Abandoned In The Thirties.I Lived In Temple...
I have a book of Texas railroads shows that the Waco to Rosebud railroad of 36.7 miles was abandoned in 1967. Quinif ( Cameron) to Rosebud of 14 miles...
... have covered much of the world. They loved the rice fields ... Have you experienced mosquitoes in Alaska? I did in the summer of '86 while working up...
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