That's a Chicago & Eastern Illinois F-unit in the lead, but this is Lancaster Yard in Fort Worth. Although the merger of Missouri Pacific, Texas & Pacific, and Chicago & Eastern Illinois wasn't officially consummated until 1976, the other two railroads disappeared into the MoPac well beforehand, and their power was reassigned elsewhere. The #939 has ended up in Texas in 1969, although it hasn't been through a paint booth yet.
The same location, six brand-new GP35s are headed out to El Paso.
A southbound MP freight weights for a meet at West, Texas. The MP ran over M-K-T trackage from Waco to Taylor, hence the M-K-T emblem on the station.
Leaving Dallas, headed to Fort Worth.
ATSF departing, MP approaching. This is at Tower 55, which was the busiest junction in the state of Texas. The Texas & Pacific, Cotton Belt, Frisco, Katy, Missouri Pacific, Rock Island and Santa Fe all crossed at this location.
A nighttime time lapse of Tower 55. Sadly, the building was demolished late last year.
A Texas & Pacific Geep that escaped the paint shop crossing the bascule bridge at Plaquemine, Louisiana in August of 1975.
An MP freight at a freshly double-tracked section near Marshall, TX. Looks like an end-cab switcher tucked in behind the pair of road switchers.
The crew aboard an MP local watches a Katy freight train pass through at the station in Austin. The Katy ran over MP rails from San Marcos to Tyler.
The baggage porters are ready for action, as the Missouri-Kansas-Texas' Texas Special rolls into Austin.
The Texas Special running north out of Austin with a quite eclectic mix of passenger cars.
There is a great website on all TX railroad towers and their history.
A Katy Geep on a local turn to Granger. I wonder what it was about the Southwest that spawned so many railroads that rarely went by their full names. The Missouri-Kansas-Texas was the Katy, the St. Louis Southwestern was almost always the Cotton Belt, the St. Louis-San Francisco was the Frisco.
An odd couple on a wooden trestle at Smithville, Texas. The lead unit is an Alco FA that the Katy had repowered with a 1600hp Alco 251, while the homely, hunchbacked monstrosity behind it is a Baldwin AS16 that had a 1500hp EMD 567, and the corresponding EMD long hood, installed. CNW, Nickel Plate, and Union Railroad also had similar Frankensteined Baldwins. The Katy also took the Baldwin/De La Vergne 608As from the repowered AS16s and had them placed in their Fairbanks-Morse H-16-44s. Waste not, want not.
Another one of those homely repowered Baldwins leading another 251-repowered Alco FA and a regular ol' F-unit at Taylor, Texas.
Old and new Katy power at Smithville.
A Katy freight bound for Fort Worth with tonnage from their west Oklahoma line. Funny how the M-K-T snubbed Oklahoma in their name.
A switchman is typical Texas garb waits for MKT GP40 #194 to clear the points.
A unit coal train at Taylor, TX. That high-visibility green and yellow livery that the Katy used was really ugly.
Katy #34 at Tower #55. This began life as a Baldwin S-12, which was then rebuilt with an EMD hood and engine in 1959, and reclassified to an S-12m.
A lineup of Katy power at Denison. The Alco RS-3 all the way to the right has also received an EMD heart transplant.
A switcher crew aboard Texas & New Orleans Baldwin AS-616 #178 take a break and watch a local freight from Burnet, Texas, behind a "Black Widow" Geep enter Austin yard.
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