Nostalgia & History > Lone Star - track work - being followed

Dec 77
On the Lone Star headed to Cleburne from Houston (on a chilly December day) there was plenty of Santa Fe track work with a number of miles with slow orders.
This was in semaphore territory so north of McGregor. Probably in the Blum-Rio Vista area.
We were going so slow that the northbound Inter-American was catching up to us.
In a few shots it looked like they were in the same block.
Picture 4 with the semaphore is 11 miles south of Cleburne with the last shot at I believe Rio Vista.

Gary

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WOW!  I never knew they had semaphores.  What a vault of photos you have.

Well done. I also like the semaphore photo.
Bob

Nice shots!

Rndy Lundgren
Elgin, TX

Old Santa Fe Railway Templem TX based passenger conductors and had trainmen worked Temple-Cleburne-Hoston-Temple. Houston based Rear trainmen worekd to and from Cleburne. Temple based engine crews worked between Cleburne and Houston.
 

Great series of photos!

Really neat series with the I-M following so closely.  I can't imagine that would happen these days.  Very interesting.

Andy

Thanks for all of these pictures.  A great sequence!

Really NICE series!

Larry

Very cool shots. Glad you saved them all. Thanks for posting.

RodneyZona;

I always wondered why have crews work various turns like this as opposed to everybody working all one segment together? Thanks for a reply! 

RodneyZona Wrote:
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> Old Santa Fe Railway Templem TX based passenger
> conductors and had trainmen worked
> Temple-Cleburne-Hoston-Temple. Houston based Rear
> trainmen worekd to and from Cleburne. Temple based
> engine crews worked between Cleburne and Houston.
>