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Central Texas.  Both are east of Round Rock, which is north of Austin.  Taylor is still more or less a farm town.  There's a yard and Amtrak station there, and the former MoPac and Katy lines intersect there; both are obviously now property of Union Pacific.  Hutto (former MoPac territory), which is roughly halfway between Round Rock and Taylor, used to be a small town dominated by a grain elevator, but over the past fifteen years has seen significant and rapid population growth.
Originally Posted by colorado hirailer:

Dang!  Nobody lives near Durango, Chama

I'd suggest that anyone living near there doesn't need to model much if they have that nearby.

I finally got to the area in 2012, in my quest to see every narrow gauge RR in the US (which I'm very close now). Chama is everything people say it is. If you turn your back to the main road, and don't have the parking lot in your view, you're pretty much looking back into the mid 50s!

 

Well, it may be from some years back, but the Rock Island Line just west of St. Louis was the nearest railroad to me. I built a Heath Kit scanner so I could hear the daily CRIP train into St. Louis get his orders over the radio, that way I knew about when it would hit Vigus, MO area. Then I would ride my bike some 4 miles to get track side.

That was back in 1970 or so and the camera was a Kodak 126 instamatic. 

This image is from March 22, 1977. Train 73 heading for Kansas City form a 35MM negative.

Dan

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Originally Posted by Rusty Traque:

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Rusty

There has to be an Amazing Story behind this photo.

 

As for the thread, these were taking out in Redlands fairly close to my house. The milling company was closed and torn down a few years ago and this section of the Redlands loop is now abandoned. As this is the Real Trains forum I will not put on my uniform of the self-appointed Information Minister of the Isle of Denial.

 

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