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| Title: |
Overnighting at the Station |
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Amtrak's Sunset Limited overnights at the Houston Amtrak Station due to some unusual circumstances in mid-March 2016. Due to heavy rains and flooding, Union Pacific's bridge over the Sabine River on the Texas-Louisiana border was closed for a week. The bridge was shut down early on the morning of March 15th as Amtrak #2, the eastbound Sunset Limited, was traveling between San Antonio and Houston. Amtrak decided to terminate Train #2 at Houston and turn the consist there (This picture was taken that night). The following day, passengers were bussed to Houston and the consist left westward from Houston as Train #1 on the evening of the 16th. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/2016 Upload Date: 6/7/2016 1:32:25 AM |
| Location: |
Houston, TX |
| Author: |
Christopher Parma |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger,Track |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 148(P42DC) |
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126 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Under the Lights |
| Description: |
Amtrak's Sunset Limited sits under the lights at the Houston Amtrak Station due to some unusual circumstances in mid-March 2016. Due to heavy rains and flooding, Union Pacific's bridge over the Sabine River on the Texas-Louisiana border was closed for a week. The bridge was shut down early on the morning of March 15th as Amtrak #2, the eastbound Sunset Limited, was traveling between San Antonio and Houston. Amtrak decided to terminate Train #2 at Houston and turn the consist there (This picture was taken that night). The following day, passengers were bussed to Houston and the consist left westward from Houston as Train #1 on the evening of the 16th. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/2016 Upload Date: 6/7/2016 1:38:04 AM |
| Location: |
Houston, TX |
| Author: |
Christopher Parma |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Station,Passenger,Track |
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91 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Power for the Sunset Limited |
| Description: |
The power for Amtrak's Sunset Limited sits back-to-back at the Houston Amtrak Station. Due to flooding and line closures further east the eastbound train (#2) was terminated at Houston and turned to become Train #1 for the next day. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/2016 Upload Date: 6/7/2016 1:48:39 AM |
| Location: |
Houston, TX |
| Author: |
Christopher Parma |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Station,Passenger,Track |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 148(P42DC) |
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98 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Action at the Station |
| Description: |
AMTK 130 sits with an overnighting Sunset Limited at Houston's Amtrak Station as a westbound manifest approaches on Main 2 of UP's Houston Subdivision. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/2016 Upload Date: 6/7/2016 1:55:47 AM |
| Location: |
Houston, TX |
| Author: |
Christopher Parma |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Night,Station,Passenger,Track,Action |
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112 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Passing at the Station |
| Description: |
A westbound UP manifest, led by UP 7183, heads westward on Main 2 of UP's Houston Subdivision past the Houston Amtrak Station while AMTK 130 holds an overnighting Sunset Limited in the House Track. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/2016 Upload Date: 6/7/2016 2:09:57 AM |
| Location: |
Houston, TX |
| Author: |
Christopher Parma |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Night,Station,Passenger,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7183(AC44CW) |
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154 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Heading West at Night |
| Description: |
UP 7183 leads a westbound UP manifest on Main 2 of UP's Houston Subdivision at Depot Jct on the west side of Downtown Houston, TX. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/2016 Upload Date: 6/7/2016 2:15:35 AM |
| Location: |
Houston, TX |
| Author: |
Christopher Parma |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Night,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7183(AC44CW) |
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113 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rolling Past the Sunset Limiited |
| Description: |
A UP manifest heads westward on Main 2 of UP's Houston Subdivision past the Houston Amtrak Station while AMTK 130 holds an overnighting Sunset Limited in the House Track. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/2016 Upload Date: 6/7/2016 2:31:33 AM |
| Location: |
Houston, TX |
| Author: |
Christopher Parma |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Night,Station,Passenger,Track,Action |
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95 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rolling Past the Sunset Limited (2) |
| Description: |
A UP manifest heads westward on Main 2 of UP's Houston Subdivision past the Houston Amtrak Station while AMTK 130 holds an overnighting Sunset Limited in the House Track. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/2016 Upload Date: 6/7/2016 2:34:00 AM |
| Location: |
Houston, TX |
| Author: |
Christopher Parma |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Night,Station,Passenger,Track,Action |
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95 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
The General |
| Description: |
Western & Atlantic Railway #3, the General, the locomotive involved in the famous 1862 "Great Locomotive Chase", sits on display at the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History in Kennesaw, GA, where the Great Locomotive Chase began. |
| Photo Date: |
3/18/2016 Upload Date: 6/7/2016 12:24:36 PM |
| Location: |
Kennesaw, GA |
| Author: |
Christopher Parma |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
WARR 3(4-4-0) |
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159 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
The General's Cab |
| Description: |
This is the cab of the General, the locomotive involved in the famous 1862 "Great Locomotive Chase",as it sits on display at the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History in Kennesaw, GA. |
| Photo Date: |
3/18/2016 Upload Date: 6/7/2016 12:43:41 PM |
| Location: |
Kennesaw, GA |
| Author: |
Christopher Parma |
| Categories: |
InCab |
| Locomotives: |
WARR 3(4-4-0) |
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77 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS 6125 |
| Description: |
NS 6125 sits in the small yard in Tuscaloosa, AL. |
| Photo Date: |
3/18/2016 Upload Date: 6/7/2016 12:52:47 PM |
| Location: |
Tuscaloosa, AL |
| Author: |
Christopher Parma |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Yard,Track |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6125(SD40-2) |
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221 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Tuscaloosa Depot |
| Description: |
This is the old Southern Railway depot as Tuscaloosa, AL. One half of the building houses NS offices while the other half serves as the Amtrak Station. |
| Photo Date: |
3/19/2016 Upload Date: 6/7/2016 12:50:06 PM |
| Location: |
Tuscaloosa, AL |
| Author: |
Christopher Parma |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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73 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rolling Past Imperial Sugar |
| Description: |
UP 6696 leads an eastbound manifest by the old char house and silos of the Imperial Sugar refinery in Sugar Land, TX, about 25 miles southwest of Houston. |
| Photo Date: |
4/15/2016 Upload Date: 6/7/2016 11:47:18 PM |
| Location: |
Sugar Land, TX |
| Author: |
Christopher Parma |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 8726(SD70ACe) UP 4573(SD70M) UP 6696(AC44CW) |
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176 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rounding the Curve |
| Description: |
AMTK 193 flies by with the eastbound Sunset Limited as it rounds a small bend on UP's Glidden Subdivision in Ramsey, TX, about 75 miles west of Houston. |
| Photo Date: |
4/17/2016 Upload Date: 6/7/2016 11:52:56 PM |
| Location: |
Ramsey, TX |
| Author: |
Christopher Parma |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Passenger,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 193(P42DC) |
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91 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Heading Off Towards Houston |
| Description: |
The eastbound Sunset Limited flies by around the bend in Ramsey, TX as the train makes its way towards its next station stop of Houston, about 75 miles away. |
| Photo Date: |
4/17/2016 Upload Date: 6/7/2016 11:55:22 PM |
| Location: |
Ramsey, TX |
| Author: |
Christopher Parma |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Passenger,Track,Action |
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87 Comments: 0 |
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