These
photos were taken on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 west of Donna, Texas and
at Weslaco, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. (Ken Ziegenbein
photos, thundertrain@gmail.com)
Rio
Valley Switching Company No. 1233 a short distance west of Donna, Texas
on US Business 83, 5:25 p.m. Wednesday, April 14, 2010. I noticed tracks all the
way from Harlingen to McAllen, Texas, which appeared to used very
little. The tracks go through such towns as La Fena,
Mercedes, Weslaco, Donna, Alamo, San Juan, Pharr, then to McAllen.
There were lots of tank cars being stored on sidings along the line.
The Rio Valley Switching Company ("RVSC") is the “Valley
Railroad” interchanging with Union Pacific Railroad (www.uprr.com) in
Harlingen and extending west 55 miles / 88 km to Mission,
Edinburg and to the McAllen Foreign Trade Zone. RVSC also extends
Northwest 11 / 18 km miles to Santa Rosa.
(http://www.riovalleyswitching.com/) (thanks to Larry W. Grant from Trainorders.com)
Here's the Weslaco depot.
I guess these were the old station tracks for Weslaco. There's a state flag for each of the 50 states displayed at this site.
This display of state flags is fascinating. There are plaques on each flagpole telling the history of each state.
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