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D&RGW Steam Locomotive No. 683
Read This Post: D&RGW Steam Locomotive No. 683Denver and Rio Grande Western steam engine No. 683’s claim to fame is being the last surviving standard gauge steam engine. Built in 1890, No. 683 arrived on the railroad just as the D&RGW’s line between Denver and Salt Lake City opened. It would spend a lot of its operational time pulling trains up and…
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Box Cars at the Colorado Railroad Museum
Read This Post: Box Cars at the Colorado Railroad MuseumThe Colorado Railroad Museum houses a great number of rolling stock from the various railroads that have traversed the state. Here we see a collection of narrow gauge box cars from the Denver and Rio Grande Western and Rio Grande Southern railroads. These cars would have traveled in the central and southern parts of the…
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Colorado Railroad Museum
Read This Post: Colorado Railroad MuseumLocated in Golden, Colorado, at the base of the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado Railroad Museum houses historical railroad equipment that could be seen throughout the state, including steam engines, diesel engines and passenger cars from the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and other railroads in the state. Visitors can walk around the facility and…
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Cadillac Ranch People
Read This Post: Cadillac Ranch PeopleCadillac Ranch makes a number of different appearances in popular culture media. Fans of Pixar Studios will remember seeing the attraction depicted as a mountain formation around Radiator Springs in “Cars”, and it’s also depicted in Cars Land at Disney’s California Adventure Park in Anaheim, California. Country Music singer Chris LeDoux released a duet with…
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Cadillac Ranch Cars
Read This Post: Cadillac Ranch CarsCreated by architects Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels in 1974, Cadillac Ranch features 10 Cadillac cars buried nose-first into the ground a few miles west of Amarillo, Texas, along Interstate 40. But the cars aren’t the only attraction out here. Visitors can buy cans of spray paint at the entrance and spray paint…
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Amarillo Airport
Read This Post: Amarillo AirportBuilt in 1946 by Shelby Kritser, Tradewind Airport is a municipal airport just southeast of downtown Amarillo. Today, the clear skies and calm wind make for a great day of flying, but we’re keeping our feet on the ground.
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Union Pacific Train and Alkali Flats
Read This Post: Union Pacific Train and Alkali FlatsThe area between Lordsburg, New Mexico, and the Arizona state line to the west is dominated by an alkali flat, a high desert dried-out lake featuring a concentration of dry salts. Today, a Union Pacific train travels across the Lordsburg Subdivision headed west towards Tucson, Phoenix and possibly even Los Angeles.
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Train Moving Down an Alley Way
Read This Post: Train Moving Down an Alley WayThe Washington County Rail Road was the first rail line to reach Brenham, traveling from Hempstead where it met up with the Houston & Texas Central Railway to continue to Houston. Eventually the H&TC would take over the line and extend it west to Austin. Unfortunately, Hurricane Carla significantly damaged the bridge over the Brazos…
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Wind Turbines in Texas
Read This Post: Wind Turbines in TexasWind turbines have started to dominate the Texas big country landscape, proving more and more green energy in even this oil and gas entrenched state. Traveling between Fort Worth and Midland, you’ll see massive wind farms converting the afternoon breeze into energy for us to use. Here we are passing one of those such farms,…
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Passing Coal Train Cars
Read This Post: Passing Coal Train CarsCoal trains are one of the more common trains you’ll see along the BNSF Galveston Subdivision. This one is an empty coal train, heading back north either to the coal fields in West Virginia or Wyoming.
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Balloon Decorations in New Mexico
Read This Post: Balloon Decorations in New MexicoAlbuquerque, New Mexico, is know for its hot air balloon festival that takes place in the fall. Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta sees over 500 balloons take flight over Balloon Fiesta Park for nine days. While we’ve come to New Mexico in the summer and won’t see the balloons, we got a much smaller taste of…
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Fourth of July Lights
Read This Post: Fourth of July LightsIt’s the Fourth of July and there’s a buzz in the crowd. It’s hot here in Texas, but that doesn’t bother the crowd waiting for the fireworks too much. And besides, the sun is finally setting. A kid spins this light up toy around and around and around to pass the time. Soon, there will…
