Take great care to get Mr. Williams permission before publishing in any manner any of those photos. Bill Neill Conroe, Texas On Apr 1, 2009, at 12:25 AM, Frank...
Herzog ballast train parked in Wharton. First train in town since the late 90's, I'm getting excited! Sent from my iPhone On Mar 31, 2009, at 6:26 PM, John...
About 1905 Engineer George H. Lowe ran a work train down to the Van Vleck area from Houston. I think the station agent for Wharton, Texas for the sp in the...
HI Mike, Did that Section house get moved to the Wilbeck Farm in Pierce or was the building on the Wilbeck farm an out building from the Pierce depot. I have...
I was thinking about y'all down along the line being re-vitalized by KSC through Wharton, Victoria, El Campo etc...thought about it as I was sitting down at...
Would like to thank all the great railfans, that came out to The party, it was a great day. We had 11 vendors with railroads items, books, trains Other...
Tommy Shults
bandit1@...
Apr 6, 2009 8:00 am
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If this has been discussed before please direct me to the answers. Dunscomb has engines 500-514 in Class M-10.(p108 "...Century...") Diebert & Strapac have...
M-10 class nos.560-565 were fitted with superheaters and reclassified M-11 by 1921. And the M-11 class, built new with superheaters, were reclassified M-10....
Alastair Mclennan
admclennan1@...
Apr 8, 2009 9:01 pm
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Thank you, Alastair I have your T&NO book as well and and enjoy it very much. Frank ... From: Alastair Mclennan <admclennan1@...> Subject: Re:...
Request and question. The above two cars were delivered in early 1913 as cafe lounge-observation cars. They were rebuilt in 1936 with enclosed platforms...
Hi all, I'm working on Vol. 4 of SP Passenger Cars and would really like to locate pictures of the above two diners after they had been rebuilt in 1926 with...
Work has begun at the "diamond" in Victoria.? Currently there is no diamond, just straight rail on the Cuero(?) sub and connections on the NW, NE and SW...
... As far as I know they will not change much in Victoria. Instead of coming in from the north the KCS will enter from the east and take the tight curve to...
Hey all, First off, Frisco? Where? I was just down at Victoria yesterday and there is a large R/H switch sitting at the southern leg of the wye on the...
When I was a teenager that curve was _much_ tighter than it is today. Those were the days before the abandoning of the Goliad line and the line to Pt Lavaca...
What you have been waiting for... It's SAGINAW TIME!! (Please pass this on to your rail friends) ANNOUNCING the 4th Annual “24 Hours @ Saginaw” 2009 Come...
Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: "theswitchstand" <theswitchstand@...> Date: April 15, 2009 8:09:41 PM CDT To: kcsnotes@yahoogroups.com...
At 1:30 pm today KCS drove the gold spike and the gold clamp on the Macaroni at T&NO Milepost 37.6 (from Rosenberg) just north of El Campo. Will post pictures...
What a moment and an event to observe! I thank you and all the folks who painted the picture of the rebuild of the Macaroni line for we the readers. Wish I...
It's great that Wharton'll have rail service after fifteen years!! When we went from Freeport to our farm in Flatonia,I always watched the line from Pledger to...
Free to good home 3 - Microscale mini-decal sheets, each about 2 inches wide and1 inch tall. On each decal sheet are 2 Sunbeam logos with red wings and balls...
Sad to say. But as of April 15th., Flatonia is now operating Under a quite zone, Hwy. 95 & the 3 crossing to the east are now included. However, there is a...
Tommy Shults
bandit1@...
Apr 17, 2009 6:09 pm
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Tommy, They are starting to do that a lot in the Austin area. I guess it is a sign of the times. I wonder what will happen if a car or person go around the...