Western Railroad Discussion > Elephants in the Golden Hour

An eastbound UP intermodal with an "elephant style" consist has just thundered through the town of Monahans, TX and begins to enter more vast open desert land on the Toyah Sub. The autumn sunset dips below the flat horizon as it catches the eastbound train consisting of an SD70ACe, AC44CW, and two SD70M's.

Taken November 15, 2021
PQM



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/27/21 20:58 by BNSF-6432.

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awesome image.  ya nailed it.........

66

Well, that is awesome. 

Excellent image!

JG

Ringling Brothers would be jealous of those elephants.  You did good!

Bill G.

Well done! Glint is good...

Lance/199

Very nice glint shot!

RC Lundgren
Elgin TX

Nice sunset shot and good to see SD70Ms out there
Brian Stevens

Posted from iPhone

Wow!  Very Impressive.

Christi

RailFanAZ - RailFanning BNSF & UP
AZ, CA, NM, TX
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Hard to beat the golden hour in the west. A worthy IOTD award for sure.
John

Great shot, thank you for sharing. 

Mike ONeill
Parker, CO

NIICE..!!

Great image- thank you,  Patrick.

When I read =  Monahans, TX- it reminded me of the superb Guy Clark Train Song, called Texas 1947.
Easily found on Youtube, and elsewhere.

"Big and Red and Silver- she don't make no smoke" -- just one line, from that incredible Song.

It was a reminiscence of the townsfolk, including Guy himself. In Monahans, of very first high speed diesel Passenger Train, that blasted through his Town.
He did lay a "Nickel on the track,"  as a souvenir; many of us may have done the same thing.