Our train continued on west on the Whiteface Subdivision.
We passed the former South Plains & Santa Fe Whiteface depot along with Santa Fe cabooses 999770 and 999321.
Looking across the Texas Highway 114 where dinosuars are sold.
John Deere tractors.
Field sprinklers.
Green fields.
Bundles of cotton.
An interesting building.
Looking down the road.
Cotton gins.
The former siding at Hurlwood.
A west Texas farm.
More of west Texas.
Looking across Texas Highway 114.
More cotton fields.
Circular crop sprinkler.
A large bird flew overhead.
The Levelland/Hockley County ethanol plant.
As seen through the vestibule.
A great-looking sky.
Here we are approaching the Levelland Industrial Rail Park.
We would be riding this new line on the way back from our turn-around point at Levelland.
Oil tanks.
The "Moose" that some of us will ride out to Whiteface later this afternoon. We stopped, the crew switched ends and very soon we would be riding this new trackage that was recently dedicated over the Levelland Industrial Rail Park trackage.
Taking the first curve on this new line.
The second curve.
The cotton gin at Levelland.
We started down the straight track where we found an air compressor blocking our path ahead and until it could be moved, we would be stuck here, so we detrained for a photo runby.
Our lead engine.
A ballast regulator photo runby. This device would move the air compressor out of the way that had been left by the contractor.
Our train reversed for the photo runby.
Photo runby two.
Two more views of our train.
The other end.
Many of our train's passengers waiting to reboard. The ballast regulator started to move the air compressor out of our way then everyone reboarded and we started to move forward again.
This is the site of the new Levelland cotton gin.
Our train taking the third curve of this new rail line.
The final curve.
Go Levelland.com.
The equipment was now out of our way.
Our train returned to the mainline.
We were on our way to Lubbock, 29 miles away to the east.
