Located At M.P. 119.80 on the Sunset Route. Tommy A. Shults www.sidetracktommy.com ... From: Tommy Shults [mailto:bandit1@...] Sent: Monday, February...
Tommy Shults
bandit1@...
Feb 2, 2009 9:26 pm
4780
A few days ago, I sent the message attached below to the webmaster at txrrhistory.com who runs a website listing and describing the interlocking towers of...
You are correct, John, the T&NO did cross the SSW on a bridge. There was a short fill beyond that and another bridge over 4-lane US 69. This highway used to...
The T&NO crossed the SSW at grade. Jax Junction was established as a connection with the SSW in 1934 when the T&NO abandoned between Gallatin and Rusk and...
Located At M.P. 119.80 on the Sunset Route. Tommy A. Shults www.sidetracktommy.com ... From: Tommy Shults [mailto:bandit1@...] Sent: Wednesday, February...
Tommy Shults
bandit1@...
Feb 11, 2009 11:39 pm
4785
I am about to start a new garden and would like to use RR ties to frame it. Does anyone know where I might find some in the Houston area?...
They used to sell them at the big garden center type stores, but that may be environmentally incorrect these days. I have a stack in my back yard near Temple,...
Might check McCoy's if there are any in the Houston area. They were selling them at the McCoy's near my house last summer, but you had to buy a big bundle and...
Check "Landscape companies" in the phone book, as IIRC the UP & BNSF sells used ties to contractors who remove them from track work sites & sort through them &...
can anyone advise me if plans and dimensions are available for TNO wood combines such as TNO no. 74. I have a photo of it in New Iberia,La. Would SP Passenger...
The SPH&TC put out a book of T&NO passenger car drawings a while back. I'm not sure if its still in print. There are several different wood combines listed...
Checked the SPH&TS bookstore and it appears that a reprint is still available. The #74 appears to be about 50 ft. The photo of #74 was taken in 1947, it may...
Hello all, I have a question about the track layout at Tower 17 in Rosenberg, TX. The track that went behind the tower is called the "Shoofly". It connects at...
Thanks, that gives an idea of how far back it was gone. I was hoping it was still there in 1980 since that's the time period I model. I may just include it on...
Good Morning, Tim: Avondale is quite a way west of where I lived in New Orleans, but T&NO (Southern Pacific) engines ran very heavy interchange drags past our...
... Algiers had a yard and major shops. It declined after the Huey Long Bridge was openned. Avondale. The T&NO also had yards across the river in New...
Richard Burt Thanks for writing. Avondale yard opened in response to Huey P. Long bridge, which from memory began rail service on last day of 1935. Building it...
Alastair Mclennan
admclennan1@...
Feb 26, 2009 10:15 pm
4802
Oops !!! I lived just east of City Park off Florida Avenue, at the intersection with the Bayou Saint John. Dick . [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Good Evening, Alastair: When we traveled to New Orleans in May 1941, the Missouri Pacific passenger train from Little Rock/PineBluff/Alexandria to Algiers, was...
Dear Richard Your email pins down pretty precisely when T&P/MoPac shifter to the Huey P. Long bridge. You mention the costs of transferring SP loading to other...
Alastair Mclennan
admclennan1@...
Feb 27, 2009 5:24 am
4805
What would the stoves in SP cabooses of the C-40-5 class, built about 1963, have burned? Coal, oil or kerosene? Thanks, Doug Weiskopf...
Cabooses used coal in the cold areas where oil would not flow very well because of the extreme weather. I worked in El Paso for years and the coal burners...
Most likely oil.. That is what a 1979 version on exhibit in Houston, Tx. has in it.. ( www.houstonrrmuseum.org , click equipment roster for photos of an SP...
3/1/09: Only two bridges need be completed on KCS's Rosenberg-Victoria mainline. One is the Colorado River bridge in Wharton, where they are still working on...
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