I was up at 5:30 AM and after showering, accessed the Internet, inserted the corrections from yesterday's story and uploaded them then posted it on Trainorders.com. I quickly dressed then Randy Jackson, his wife Marie and I drove to the boarding site with a stop at Starbucks on the way. We parked the car and met Dave and Kathie Smetko, who bought me hot cakes and sausage which I took on the train. After all the passengers boarded, we made our pre-sunrise departure from Water Rampage Road crossing.
Sunrise came slowly.
The moon was out in full this early morning.
The sun was still coming up as we were rolling to Seagraves.
Ropesville, Texas.
Rolling north along US Highway 62/82.
We would see plenty of cotton fields on our route today.
Any water makes for interesting pictures in the low light.
Cotton fields.
A picked cotton field.
The Clint Williams Company.
Meadow, Texas.
The former White Deer South Plains & Santa Fe station built in 1911 and moved to Meadow in 1923, where it served until 1965. Two years later, it was moved into this park away from the tracks.
One more view of Meadow, Texas.
Cattle out in their pasture.
Someone used to live here once upon a time.
Another cotton field.
The long and lonely road.
Apporaching Pecan Grove.
Milepost 34.
The train went by the first pecan grove.
One of the few bridges on this rail line.
This is where the pecan groves are taken care of.
Three trees in a line.
The Yard Limit sign for Brownfield.
Brownfield, Texas.
HLCX GP38-3 1006, ex. Nebraska Central 1006, exx. Union Pacific 1006, exxx. Union Pacific 2500, exxxx. CSX 6541, nee Baltimore and Ohio GP40 3765 built by Electro-Motive Division in 1971.
HLCX GP38-3 913, ex. CSX 2028, nee Baltimore and Ohio GP38 3828 built by Electro-Motive Division in 1967.
West Texas and Lubbock F40-M2F 456, ex. San Luis and Rio Grande 456, exx. Rail World Leasing, exxx. Canadian-American Railroad 456, nee Amtrak F40PHR 378 built by Electro-Motive Division in 1981.
The Brownfield station sign.
San Luis and Rio Grande road slug 245, nee Amtrak F40PHR 245 built by Electro-Motive Division in 1977.
West Texas and Lubbock GP7 107, ex. Texas Northeastern 107, exx. Intermountain Western 107, exx. Missouri-Kansas-Texas 107, nee Missouri-Kansas-Texas 1517, built by Electro-Motive Division in 1951.
The large grain elevator in Brownfield.
Our train crossed Lost Draw and the bridge is also called "Suicide Bridge". We stopped for a static photograph and a photo runby where most of the passengers detrained for this event.
Our train reversed for the static picture here.
The static photos, after which I relocated for the photo runby.
The first location I chose but thought I could do better.
The reverse move, after which I relocated back up the hill.
Photo runby one.
After that our group returned to the train.
