[RITSlist] THE ROCK lives

[Lester Brandt]

Yesterday, I was driving beside the Golden State route
between El Paso and Alamogordo and saw four southbound
trains.  More than I saw in several years in the
1960s.  A loaded covered hopper train with power on
both ends, a coal train with power on both ends, a
mixed merchandise train, and a double stack. The mixed
freight train had several former Rock Island cars, box
and covered hopper. The power facing rearward had the
white headlight illuminated--guess the rule about red
lights on the rear is history.  Also saw a cut of
double stacks without power on the siding at Orogrande
when we travelled north to Alamo, but when we returned
in the afternoon, the cut was gone, apparently picked
up by one of the southbounds.

Les Brandt

--- Andy Baldwin VO <vo1000 at cox.net> wrote:

> I live in Tucson and travel to Casa Grande and Yuma
> along the Sunset Route
> so I see a lot of UP trains with Rock boxes and
> hoppers. It is kind of nice
> to see little pieces of the Rock Island. I just wish
> that it had been the
> Rock and the SP that swallowed the UP.  
> 
> Andy B.
> Tucson
> 



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