fredevad
Lead Service Attendant
October 27, 2010: Day 3 of my Amtrak 2010 Texas Eagle excursion.
After a foggy start in San Antonio, TX, my return trip begins in bedroom E and morning clouds riding through San Marcos, TX, and crossing the Colorado river. After a crew change stop and our engineer Mark leaves us in Ausin, the sun comes out by the time we hit Taylor, TX. Getting our track warrent for the Waco subdivision, we continue on to Temple, TX and a very short visit to the Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum at the depot. Then it's on across the Brazos River and on to Cleburne, TX.
Scanner activity picks up as we pass several BNSF yards north of Cleburne, TX. After briefly sitting in a siding to let our sister train, the Amtrak Texas Eagle #21 pass, we make our approach and stop in Ft. Worth, TX. Sitting in the depot, the silence in the SSL indicates cutting of the head end power to swith engines to leave engine AMTK 25 in Ft. Worth and bring engine AMTK 204 to Chicago. Departing Ft. Worth, we shove south across the interlocking and switch to UP trackage and make our way towards Dallas, TX as the scanner activity dies down. Running late, there is only time in Dallas to catch a few DART and double decker TRE trains before we depart and head toward Mineola, TX. At the second spotting in Mineola, the Texas sunset is beginning to show itself until light is barely visible by the time we reach Longview, TX. After our stop in Longview, the SCA turns down the bed and we continue on through the night.
Here is day 3 in a video travelogue: San Antonio, TX to Longview, TX
Part 1: San Antonio, TX to Cleburne, TX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nQGSLSAmJw
After a foggy start in San Antonio, TX, my return trip begins in bedroom E and morning clouds riding through San Marcos, TX, and crossing the Colorado river. After a crew change stop and our engineer Mark leaves us in Ausin, the sun comes out by the time we hit Taylor, TX. Getting our track warrent for the Waco subdivision, we continue on to Temple, TX and a very short visit to the Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum at the depot. Then it's on across the Brazos River and on to Cleburne, TX.
Scanner activity picks up as we pass several BNSF yards north of Cleburne, TX. After briefly sitting in a siding to let our sister train, the Amtrak Texas Eagle #21 pass, we make our approach and stop in Ft. Worth, TX. Sitting in the depot, the silence in the SSL indicates cutting of the head end power to swith engines to leave engine AMTK 25 in Ft. Worth and bring engine AMTK 204 to Chicago. Departing Ft. Worth, we shove south across the interlocking and switch to UP trackage and make our way towards Dallas, TX as the scanner activity dies down. Running late, there is only time in Dallas to catch a few DART and double decker TRE trains before we depart and head toward Mineola, TX. At the second spotting in Mineola, the Texas sunset is beginning to show itself until light is barely visible by the time we reach Longview, TX. After our stop in Longview, the SCA turns down the bed and we continue on through the night.
Here is day 3 in a video travelogue: San Antonio, TX to Longview, TX
Part 1: San Antonio, TX to Cleburne, TX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nQGSLSAmJw
