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The Texas Eagle (Amtrak 22) heading north out of Temple on June 17 with unusual consist of Amfleet cars.
These being substituted for usual consist which turned in Fort Worth the night before. Cars were on route to NRHS convention.

Best place for BNSF pictures - Blue Cut!

This is a stack train (rare on Ft Worth sub) being detoured from Lampassas sub
on May 27

Heading north out of Temple on May 31.

Does outdoor advertising work for train crews? "Just did!"

Work continues on double tracking project just east out of Temple towards Rogers. These photographs were taken on April 27.


At MP 210 looking west towards Temple, roadbed is being readied.	Looking westward at MP 208. Not as far along.	Now at MP 210 and looking eastward towards Rogers, pad being built on north side of track for ??	Loaded grain train passing through construction site at track speed. On the point is only one locomotive!

On Tuesday, April 8, Santa Fe business car 405 left Temple headed for its new home at the Arizona Railway Museum. The pictures to the right were taken as the train (a local) was passing through Nolanville on Tuesday evening. Appropriately the engine consist was all Santa Fe!!

From our archives:
Ever see a rail grinder in action?
This is on the UP, south in Taylor, in 2002. What a sight!

On Wednesday, February 20, a UP Engineering Special passed through Central Texas. What made this so special was the engine on the point: UP Centenial 6936.

Union Pacific originally had 47 of these "Centennial" diesel-electric locomotives. They were the largest diesel-electric locomotives ever built. They actually consists of two engines on one frame and produced 6,600 horsepower. They were delivered to UP beginning in 1969, the centennial anniversary of the railroad, hence the name "Centennial. They were removed from freight service in 1984. The 6936 is the sole remaining operational locomotive from this unique series.

At milepost 893, the UP Engineering Special with classic 6936 at the point flies through Sparks, Texas. The detector at MP 892 clocked the train at 63 MPH.
Now passing just north of Temple the train slows to about 45 MPH.

Spending only a few seconds in Troy, 6936 will soon be in Fort Worth.

BNSF is performing major track maintenance in and around Temple. If track work is your interest, now is the time to see track equipment in action.

Major track maintenance is taking place on the BNSF Fort Worth Subdivision Temple northward. Shown here are both main lines with traffic essentially stopped for most of each morning. The date is February 13.	A siding at Moody is filled with equipment on February 18. Here old ties are ready for off-loading.
String of maintenance-of-way equipment sits idly in Moody siding on Monday, February 18.

An old wooden bridge over the BNSF Fort Worth Division mainline at Blue Cut (between Moody and McGregor) makes an ideal spot for photographs. You can also experience being just a few feet about the lumbering engines!

	Looking north off the bridge, a southbound coal train approaches us. This is an LCRA train.
What seems like an un-ending string of cars pass directly underneath.
	Now looking from the south side of the bridge, the two pushers pass from under the bridge.

BNSF track work resumed on February 19 between Pendleton and McGregor.


		All of the conveniences of home! A potty on the track!
Amtrak passing through Pendleton work zone on February 19.	A road crossing is nothing special. However, the gate on the left is becoming rare. Notice a real bell at the top! These are being replaced by digital bells and sounds as seen on the right

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