Nostalgia & History > a little more Texican Santa Fe

Here's an image from April 2002. Sometimes seeing scenes like this helped relieve the boredom and tedium of waiting to load, as in loading a big truck. This northbound BNSF was just north of Streetman Texas on the B-RI when I took its picture as it was just about my turn to get a load of hadite at the TXI plant outside of Streetman Texas. Hadite is a kiln baked clay aggregate that's used for road surfacing, and concrete blocks, and light weight precast concrete.

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Here's a chopped nosed GP-7 (?, maybe a 9?) I don't know, it was an altered infernal combustio machine, okay? It was assigned as a switch engine at the Bellville Texas yards when they were still active.

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Here's Santa Fe SD-26 #4661 in Temple Texas in March 1976.

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Here are U-boats 6304 and 6320 in Temple in Sept. 1975.

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Miami Texas in April 1982.

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xtra1188w Wrote:

> Here's a chopped nosed GP-7 (?, maybe a 9?) I
> don't know, it was an altered infernal combustio
> machine, okay?

It's a 7. The rebuilt GP9's started at 2244.