The La Linda crew found a very short train waiting for them at Sotol Siding, just an engine and a caboose! This being Saturday, the crew looks forward to an early quit and home in time for some football. Now college football gets complicated for the P&N crews. After a few pleasantries with the northernContinue reading “Caboose Hops & College Football!”
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New Power on the LCN (Part 2)
Caught the southbound train a bit north of La Linda. I could only see it from a distance from the dirt road that leads to La Linda. On the head end is a Baldwin AS-616, a used locomotive of C&O heritage. It is part of a three locomotive acquisition the LCN recently made from aContinue reading “New Power on the LCN (Part 2)”
New Power on the LCN
The La Linda Canyon Northern has finally acquired additional locomotives so it can implement a revised operating scheme. There will now be a La Linda-based crew and a Marathon-based crew. Each morning a train will depart from La Linda and another from Marathon. It takes a considerable part of the day to make a oneContinue reading “New Power on the LCN”
“Casa Blanca Run” or Big Spring Spur, 1975
By B. Smith and CE Hunt Three times (or so) a week, the Missouri Pacific runs a local out of Midland, Texas, heading east to Big Spring, about 40 miles. Generally the local doesn’t even quite make it to Big Spring because most of the action is along a three mile spur just west ofContinue reading ““Casa Blanca Run” or Big Spring Spur, 1975″
A New Kiln for the Angelo Ranch Perlite Company, Conclusion
By B. Smith Agnes finally got the unloading crew off their rear ends. The LPG tank has been unloaded and moved to near the kiln site with the goose neck trailer. The goose-neck trailer has been loaded back on the flat car and awaits the LCN to get it to Marathon. The local arrives withContinue reading “A New Kiln for the Angelo Ranch Perlite Company, Conclusion”
A New Kiln for the Angelo Ranch Perlite Company, Part 3
By B. Smith I arrived in La Linda late morning to check out what was going on in La Linda. The old crane from the fluorspar plant was driven down to the team track yesterday afternoon. The unloading crew was up early and got the trailer off the flat car and hooked up toContinue reading “A New Kiln for the Angelo Ranch Perlite Company, Part 3”
A New Kiln for the Angelo Ranch Perlite Company, Part 2
By B Smith and CE Hunt On the next day’s train, the kiln story continues. Below we see the crew about to spot this flat car carrying a low-boy trailer. They put it way down at the end of the team track. Next they put the bulkhead flat with the kiln on top of theContinue reading “A New Kiln for the Angelo Ranch Perlite Company, Part 2”
A New Kiln for the Angelo Ranch Perlite Company
By B Smith By the time I got to the tracks the local is down by Mendoza’s setting over two loads for the mercantile. They had already pulled an empty covered hopper from the feed silos and spotted an empty double door box for Agnes’ perlite loading. The new kiln for the planned perlite plantContinue reading “A New Kiln for the Angelo Ranch Perlite Company”
The Drought is Generating Traffic for the LCN
By B. Smith Next the boxcar can be coupled into.
A Short Train on December 30
By B. Smith Things get slow around La Linda as the New Year approaches. The mine shuts down over New Years and the locals are focused on bringing in El año Nuevo the right way. The inbound local arrives with just two cars and a caboose. A load of molasses is spotted. The handbrake isContinue reading “A Short Train on December 30”
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