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Date: 04/09/25 13:23
L-0863
Author: Mopac3240

Here is a shot of the L-0863, the Bloomington to Nueces City TSE (Traveling Switch Engine) working the raw sugar dumper at the Cane River Sugar Company plant...

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Date: 04/09/25 13:50
Re: L-0863
Author: SPDRGWfan

Bloomington IN or Bloomington some where else?  I went to college in Bloomington Indiana.

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Date: 04/09/25 15:19
Re: L-0863
Author: Roadmaster

Bloomington, Texas, near the Gulf coast - here are coordinates, which you may plug in to your favorite online map site: 28.6478047,-96.8950749

Matthew

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Date: 04/09/25 16:34
Re: L-0863
Author: Mopac3240

Bloomington Texas on the old St.Louis, Brownsville and Mexico mainline.. mine is a proto -freelance line set in south Texas

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Date: 04/10/25 01:58
Re: L-0863
Author: funnelfan

Love this kind of photo of a local at work. Just wrapped up a night of doing that in 1:1 scale, worked the first half of the night as a engineer, then swapped roles and did the conductor work the second half of the night. Gives some more meaning to what a photo like this represents.

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

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Date: 04/10/25 04:52
Re: L-0863
Author: Mopac3240

Ted,
Thanks for that thought! Nice to hear from someone who does it for real!!

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