Included:
1) UP 7294, 5344, 6679, 7728, 3863, 5172, 4100
2) CSX 7597
3) Military equipment train
4) ATW 114121 boxcar
5) Columbus Tap Railway marker
6) Numerous railroad street crossings in Columbus
7) Civil War era courthouse in Columbus
This is the area where I got train photos in Columbus, Texas on Sunday September 15, 2013. It's the crossing at Front Street, MP 84.22 on the UP's Sunset Route.
Looking east through Columbus at all the street crossings. I counted at least 8 crossings with gates. Columbus has no 'Quite Zones' and I can see why. It would cost a small fortune to put the barriers on all these streets. So you can hear a train blowing its horn continuously through town.
The bridge over the Colorado River east of Front Street. The river is the Texas version of the Colorado River, not famous one that's located in the western U.S.
A westbound train nearing the bridge at 1:50 p.m. with UP 7294 in the lead. The 300 mm zoom makes it look closer that it was and it wasn't even blowing for the crossing yet, so I was in no danger while walking across the road crossing on Front Street.
Trains go at track speed through here, I'd estimate 59 mph like they do through Brinkley, Arkansas on the Jonesboro Sub.
UP 7294, 1:51 p.m. using a shutter speed of 1/400th second.
UP 5345.
UP 6679.
ATW 114121 reddish-orange boxcar.
M.P. 84.22, Front Street, grade crossing hotline 800-848-8715.
UP 7728 westbound, 2:06 p.m.
UP 3863.
CSX 7597.
Contains and matching flower, my artsy shot.
One of the many oak trees next to and in the middle of roads in Columbus.
UP 5172 heading a military equipment train eastbound at 2:23 p.m.
UP 5172 ready to cross Front Street and then the Colorado River
UP 5172 and 4100.
DDOX 40082 green flatcar.
Texas bugs on my car.
Columbus Tap Railway Historical marker. Fascinating history of the lines, which became part of the Southern Pacific in the 1880s.
Site where the marker stands.
Historical Columbus, Colorado County, Courthouse, being renovated. The tower to the right has cannon holes in it from the Civil War. This courthouse was also in the motion picture "Baby the Rain Must Fall" made here in the 1960s which starred Steve McQueen and Lee Remick, and I got to see them when the movie was being filmed.
Huge oak tree.
