Nostalgia & History > MKT in Waco

May 88
A pair of MKT GP7 units work the Bellmead yard in Waco,Tx.

Gary

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Nice - How wide open everything was back then.
Bob

I see a Leslie T-chord airhorn on 105.  One was installed 105 between 1981 and 1985.

105 was still in existence working at an elevator in Kingfisher, OK in 2013.  Current Google satellite imagery has the elevators hiding some of the adjacent trackage, but aerial photography from 2015 and 2017 on the Historic Aerials site shows the yard filled with 2-bay covered hoppers, which I assume were carrying sand.  I guess 105 was gone by then.

109, according to 2022 satellite photography, is working for the Kaskaskia Regional Port District around Baldwin and Lenzburg, IL; it has been there for over 10 years.

Matthew Dittert

Gary, thanks for sharing your MKT slides from this era . 

Roadmaster Wrote:

> 109, according to 2022 satellite photography, is
> working for the Kaskaskia Regional Port District
> around Baldwin and Lenzburg, IL; it has been there
> for over 10 years.
>
> Matthew Dittert

Thanks for the engine info.
Gary

Nice shots,, Gary!

RC Lundgren