The Moose continued rolling east.
Two more rear views.
The color green stands out in West Texas.
Milepost 336.
Trees are a rare thing in West Texas.
Edmonson, Texas.
The flagman were busy this morning.
More of Edmonson, Texas.
The Moose chasers again.
Edmonson, Texas.
An active cotton gin.
Donkeys.
Water is amazing with what it can do in nature.
Another line-side industry.
The Moose chasers.
A Field sprinkler.
Results from that kind of sprinkler.
Milepost 333.
Someone's home.
Another grain elevator along our route.
Bundles of cotton.
Milepost 331.
There was a set of locomotives ahead of us and they were moved so we could reach the BNSF property line.
The next set of Moose riders were awaiting our return.
We went to the BNSF property line then returned to the grade crossing where our group unloaded from the Moose with our ride complete. Randy gave me the car keys then Dave and I drove into Plainview.
The West Texas & Lubbock power set at the BNSF Property Line.
Independent Locomotive Service GP35 1388, ex. Wisconsin Southern 4002, exx. Wisconsin Southern 2051, nee Texas and Pacific 605 built by Electro-Motive Division in 1964.
Arizona Eastern GP20 2170, ex. Raritan Central 2092, exxx. Georgia Central 209, exxxx. Kyle 2170, nee Great Northern 2015, built by Electro-Motive Division in 1960.
The Santa Fe Plainview station is a well-preserved brick county seat depot dating from 1910 replaced a frame structure built just three years earlier. The Plainview depot included an open-air waiting room with two arches along its length, similar to the depot at Cherryvale, Kansas but in constrast to the single-arch open waiting rooms on the 1910-built depots at Kingman, Kansas and Waynoka, Oklahoma.
At one time, four depots stood in Plainview within a block of each other. Santa Fe's freight house, rebuilt from the original 1907 passenger depot, stood a block or so east of the brick station. The Fort Worth & Denver City Burlington) had their passenger and freight depots a block south of the respective Santa Fe buildings. By the early 1990's, the BN "depot" was merely a portable building and the Santa Fe freight house was gone. The Santa Fe passenger and FW&D freight depots remain.
From here Dave and I went after the Moose and took the wrong road out of town but after taking a few roads, returned to the correct highway to Dimmitt. Soon we caught up with the Moose and went into Hart to get a picture.
The Moose went by West Hart.
Now we were the Moose chasers and overtook it then pulled off the highway to wait for the Moose to catch up.
The Moose going by, after which we returned to Dimmitt.
The Fort Worth and Denver station here. I transferred the pictures into the computer then prepared them for the story later tonight.
