Sunday, February 5, 2012

Another Hill country Saturday 4 Feb 2012

Wow, cant believe how time is going so fast.   I remember railfanning in N Texas.  Now its Centex Railfanning.  Anywho, i won the weekly contest for the Hill Country Flyer this week and i took the kids on the train ride.  Anywho, despite hearing that BNSF 9647 was close by, I decided to stick to this trip. 

1st shot is ATCX 442 at the S leg of Y to station.  Train is staged here to board the passengers for the days run. 
smoking out Liberty Hill Tx.  Doing what alcos do best.  Next best to the Steamer.
coming up to HWY 29 grade crossing in Liberty Hill
View of the Caboose on todays train.

interesting signal light west of Bertram.
Austin Western 5001 and train holding at Summit.  After we arrived in Burnet, the train headed south.
Caboose charter on todays train

 Riders enjoy climbing on the alco at Burnet.
Climbing the 2% grade out of burnet toward summit siding.
approaching MP113, just 1 mile short of summit.

coming into summit siding.
short string of baretables in the siding at summit.  Kinda weird to see these here but storage = money so yeah. 
Austin Western RR at summit.  112 was ahead of us just as we were coming out of burnet.  he tied down in the siding. 
smoking up the countryside east of burnet.

Back in CEdar Park.
My farewell shot as she prepares to reverse into yard for the week.

Thanks for looking.

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