Southwestern Railroad - Shattuck Branch
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Southwestern Railroad - Shattuck Branch
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Southwestern Railroad's Shattuck branch is based in the small town of Perryton,
located in the northeast corner of the Texas panhandle. This branch of the Southwestern
is operated separately from the copper-hauling shortline of the same name based in Hurley, New Mexico.
The Shattuck Branch diverges from the BNSF Panhandle Subdivision a few miles east of the
Texas-Oklahoma border at Shattuck, OK, heading northwest through Darrouzett and Perryton to
the line's western terminus at Spearman. Santa Fe sold this line, its former Shattuck
Subdivision, to the Southwestern in 1990. Principal traffic on the Shattuck branch is grain.
In August 2000, when I passed through the area, Southwestern's locomotive roster on the
Shattuck Branch consisted of just two locomotives: an ex-ATSF GP7 and an ex-Southern
Pacific GP35.
Please click on any of the following pictures to see a larger image:
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Southwestern RR GP7 2163 idles near Southwestern's depot at Perryton, Texas on the blazing
hot afternoon of August 11, 2000.
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Two things at once: The peeling, fading paint job on Southwestern GP7 2163 reveals the
locomotive's former coat of paint, the blue and yellow "warbonnet" scheme of the Santa
Fe -- the engine's former owner. Photographed at Perryton, TX on August 11, 2000.
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An ex-Southern Pacific GP35 idles at Darrouzett, Texas on the Southwestern Railroad on
August 11, 2000.
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