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This apparently is the motive power mostly used on the excusion train at the Oklahoma Railway Museum, as it was hooked up this day to the train in preparation for the next run.
"Depot" marking the western terminus of the Katy Trail. At Katy Trail State Park, Clinton, Missouri. Taken 04-26-2012 View is to the north, with the actual Katy trail being to the left of the depot in this photo.
This is a the MKT Depot in Katy Texas. Though the tracks end at the edge of the city limits, it still runs westward. I do recall the tracks ran all the way to downtown Houston,Texas. MKT was taken over by Union Pacific.
UP 1988 leads a string of baretables out of the siding at Castroville, California in February of 2009. The UP painted up this new locomotive in honor of the Missouri Kansas Texas railroad which became part of the Union Pacific system in the 1980's.
Missouri-Kansas-Texas RS-3m #142, Kansas City, Kansas, April 1980, photo by Chuck Zeiler. It was built in June 1951 (c/n 78892) as a 1600 horsepower steam generator equipped RS-3 #1701. In October 1959 it was re-engined by EMD with a 567C prime mover (EMD order #8552) and given a GP-9 style...
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Missouri-Kansas-Texas AS-16m #138 at Kansas City, Kansas, August 15, 1965, photo by Chuck Zeiler
Thomas Berry left a comment below identifying this as a Baldwin AS-16, so I started researching that fact in the book, Diesels From Eddystone, The Story Of Baldwin Diesel Locomotives, by Gary and...
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Category: Vintage Freight Train Photos - Diesel Era
UP SD70ACe 4141 (George Bush 41 library), UP SD70M 3779, UP SD70ACe 1988 (MKT Heritage), UP SD70ACe 1982 (MP heritage) lead the M-HOFW-06 northbound at FM 1860, just south of Waco, Texas
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