New Years Railfanning 1/1/2012 Temple, Tx

After catching the Texas Eagle with the Heritage consist, i stuck around town to see what would show up.  I had pretty decent day considering i wasnt going to stick around after amtrak.

BNSF 4981 comes out of temple yard and will start to head south towards galveston.  M-TplGat

crossing 3rd street

BNSF 8011, which has been on local out of Temple for some time, heads out with the galveston bound train.  interestingly still carries original BN #.

Consist passing old grain silo.  A CSXT ac44 is also included in the consist.

After nailing this train, I caught Amtrak with the heritage locos and cars in tow.  After that, i heard DS112 talk to BNSF 7919 Sb holding at Temple siding for a new crew.  Finally, got crewed up and headed south toward fuel pad at knowd. 

 

last train of the day, wb onto the Lampasas subdivision.  I will follow this train to Nolanville.

seen just passing Opal Jct

Last shot of the train is at Nolanville, just East of Killeen.

After this, I continued on home.  Not bad for just going to shoot amtrak.