Nostalgia & History > Toto Tuesday: UP Glint at Button Road

Here’s a time-honored scene that happens many times every single day in the RR world. The on-line pickup, garnished with the obligatory air test. If my memory holds up, I came across Kansas City-Salina train #155 making a gargantuan pick up at Topeka. So large that the head end pokes clear out of the yard and into the crossover plant at Button Rd. In image #2 it looks like I have a companion shadow shooting with me, but memory fails me on who this was.

But both of us caught a little bit of Uncle Pete glint some 35 years ago…

1. UP 2914 on #155 is shoving back to a joint after making a huge pickup.

2. With the joint made, the 2914’s crew is performing the required air test.

3. Air test completed, it’s now “Hi-ball, 155”!
(3 photos taken at or near Button Rd crossing in Topeka, KS on September 18, 1979)

Thanks for looking!
Lance Garrels
santafe199



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/19/22 21:12 by santafe199.

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The shadow wasn't me. We hadn't met yet. I do remember the humongus pickups at Topeka on #155. Sometimes the head end was almost to
Brick Yard Road. Continues today on the M-KCSI.
And a U30C on the point.

Good Stuff.

Roberto
PRose