Some black-white photos from the 1950s seem to show that T&NO tank cars in company fuel service had lighter-painted domes. Does anyone know what color this...
Tony, The color slides I have of a T&NO diesel fuel tank car has an aluminum painted band across the ends. The paint on the dome is almost completely covered...
... Thanks, Charlie. I'm well aware of the "aluminum end stripe" scheme for diesel fuel, and also the all-aluminum scheme for the same assignment. In fact, I...
I'm thinking about going out to Alpine to watch trains in the next few weeks. Are there certain days of the week where the number of trains is dramatically...
ugh.... while I'm glad that the switcher will have T&NO numbering, I have to say I was a bit disappointed to see the "halloween"/ simplified switcher scheme...
Vinnie;As Ed McMahon Used Ta Say"You Are Correct Sir!!". There's A Pitcure of One On Page 51 of Steve Goen's Book About the T&NO. ... [Non-text portions of...
From Tommy A. Shults via the BLUE STREAK NEWS: FALLEN DEPOT: On Sunday night June 3, 2007 a sudden storm at about 11pm hit Flatonia, high winds & rain. On...
Hi Vince I saw the steam locomotive on the concrete retaining wall, but I did not notice the SA&AP lettering. Great find! Carl ... From: "Vincent Smith"...
Carl - What is the status of 786? Frank Fertitta "Carl R. Codney" <dalsa@...> wrote: Saturday June 23 from 9 AM to 5 PM and Sunday June 24 from 10 AM to...
In what manner will the images be used? What message is to be conveyed to "local leaders" through these images? Will credit be given to the photographer? Bill...
... Here's the story about this project from the June 4, 2007, issue of Texas Contractor (which has nice color photos in the magazine story): Depicting...
I hope that whoever wrote this post (Shults? Surely not Carl!) has a good copy editor for his newspaper articles. I'd be embarrassed to see such writing as...
... Ken, note that the mail program, likely not the writer, has capitalized the start of every line. That doesn't fix the writing, though. Tony Thompson...
... -- It was likely Tommy.. I have an original copy which is in html & that may have lead to formatting issues in conversion to text.. Howard Bingham...
How do I go about finding what Steam engines were use In Houston Texas and surrounding area between 1910s into the mid 50s. And What road names (like Katy Belt...
No I'm in houston and the website you gave me for SMU was unfriendly it wanted userID and password for any information. Still looking, Charlie ... place to...
I recommend two books for research on Houston railroads during the steam era ---"Texas Railroads, A Record of Construction and Abandonment", Charles P....
... All excellent recommendations, but be aware that the first two are not readily available and you will pay somewhat of a "collector price" as used books. In...
For steam locos then --- Perhaps "A Century of Southern Pacific Steam Locomotives", Guy L. Dunscomb for T&NO; "Iron Horses of the Santa Fe Trail", E. D....
Here is a book that may be of help.... and it is in one of my favorite libraries. The?Central Texas?Room at the Houston Public Library.? Also available for...
Charlie,For the Late 40's/Early 50's era,Steve Goen's Books About The T&NO and Katy have a few photos. Richard Troxell's Book"Texas Trains"has some info on...
Howard K. Vollrath took plenty of steam locomotive photographs in and around Texas and Louisiana. He used to offer prints for sale; I don't know if he still...
... -- Steve Goen's recent book on the TNO had an impressive photo spread of many types of steam locomotives used in Houston & SE Texas.. The SPH&TS Convention...
-Nice pics on the site. The saddle tanker #1200 is definately an engine that screams "Model me!" Also, I wasn't aware that there were 4-4-2s around down here....
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