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By:Rev. Jonathan Spurlock
Dates:11/6/2013 - 11/6/2013
Album Info:Restored Album
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MP 2085, engineer's side
Title:  MP 2085, engineer's side
Description:  MP 2085 has four exhaust stacks and still has the MP paint scheme five years after the MP-UP merger. Abilene, Texas, in December 1987.
Photo Date:  12/18/1987  Upload Date: 11/6/2013 9:59:34 PM
Location:  Abilene, TX
Author:  Jonathan Spurlock
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  MP 2085(GP38-2)
Views:  276   Comments: 0
UP 2153, engineer's side
Title:  UP 2153, engineer's side
Description:  UP 2153 has four exhaust stacks in Abilene, TX in December 1987.
Photo Date:  12/18/1987  Upload Date: 11/6/2013 9:59:53 PM
Location:  Abilene, TX
Author:  Jonathan Spurlock
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 2153(GP38-2)
Views:  283   Comments: 0
UP 3403, conductor's side
Title:  UP 3403, conductor's side
Description:  UP 3403 was part of a multi-unit set in Abilene, TX in December 1987. This unit has dynamic brakes.
Photo Date:  12/18/1987  Upload Date: 11/6/2013 10:00:09 PM
Location:  Abilene, TX
Author:  Jonathan Spurlock
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3403(SD40-2)
Views:  328   Comments: 0
UP 3920, engineer's side
Title:  UP 3920, engineer's side
Description:  This UP 3920 was a dynamic brake equipped SD40-2. This view looks from the rear to the front of the engineer's side. Abilene, KS during December 1987.
Photo Date:  12/18/1987  Upload Date: 11/6/2013 10:00:35 PM
Location:  Abilene, TX
Author:  Jonathan Spurlock
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3920(SD40-2)
Views:  144   Comments: 0
UP 3920, front view
Title:  UP 3920, front view
Description:  UP 3920, an SD40-2, is located near a former MoPac (?) brick station in Abilene, TX during December 1987.
Photo Date:  12/18/1987  Upload Date: 11/6/2013 10:00:57 PM
Location:  Abilene, TX
Author:  Jonathan Spurlock
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3920(SD40-2)
Views:  311   Comments: 0
UP 4216
Title:  UP 4216
Description:  This UP 4216 was located in Abilene, TX during December 1987. It was an EMD SD40-2 without dynamic brakes. Notice the bell mounted near the rear radiator grilles.
Photo Date:  12/18/1987  Upload Date: 11/6/2013 10:01:20 PM
Location:  Abilene, TX
Author:  Jonathan Spurlock
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4216(SD40-2)
Views:  228   Comments: 0
UP power and train
Title:  UP power and train
Description:  A set of Union Pacific engines and a MoPac unit lead a long train of general merchandise in Abilene, TX on a misty December day in 1987.
Photo Date:  12/18/1987  Upload Date: 11/9/2013 3:07:46 PM
Location:  Abilene, TX
Author:  Jonathan Spurlock
Categories:  Winter,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  98   Comments: 0
Ex-Missouri Pacific, T&P, freight station
Title:  Ex-Missouri Pacific, T&P, freight station
Description:  I couldn't tell if this was a passenger station, or freight house, or whatever its function was, when I took this photo. The pyramid or hip roof and white doors would make this an interesting station to model.
Photo Date:  12/18/1987  Upload Date: 11/9/2013 4:11:39 PM
Location:  Abilene, TX
Author:  Jonathan Spurlock
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Station
Locomotives: 
Views:  206   Comments: 1
CR 376090
Title:  CR 376090
Description:  CR 376090 was the last car on a Union Pacific train in Abilene, TX in December 1987. It was a chilly day and very misty so I'm sure the trainman was walking as fast as he could!
Photo Date:  12/18/1987  Upload Date: 11/9/2013 4:15:15 PM
Location:  Abilene, TX
Author:  Jonathan Spurlock
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Winter
Locomotives: 
Views:  108   Comments: 0
MP 371622
Title:  MP 371622
Description:  MP 371622 has a pair of doors, one much smaller than the other. Abilene, TX: December 1987, on a very misty afternoon.
Photo Date:  12/18/1987  Upload Date: 11/10/2013 1:41:15 PM
Location:  Abilene, TX
Author:  Jonathan Spurlock
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Winter,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  86   Comments: 0
NAHX covered hopper, number unknown
Title:  NAHX covered hopper, number unknown
Description:  I couldn't quite figure out the car number on this covered hopper. It was in Abilene, TX in December 1987.
Photo Date:  12/18/1987  Upload Date: 11/10/2013 5:29:50 PM
Location:  Abilene, TX
Author:  Jonathan Spurlock
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Winter,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  68   Comments: 0
SRCX 708
Title:  SRCX 708
Description:  SRCX 708 is part of a Union Pacific train in Abilene, TX in December 1987. Notice the map or outline of Texas on the car's right side.
Photo Date:  12/18/1987  Upload Date: 11/10/2013 11:43:59 PM
Location:  Abilene, TX
Author:  Jonathan Spurlock
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Winter,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  318   Comments: 0
SSW-Cotton Belt-double plug door boxcar
Title:  SSW-Cotton Belt-double plug door boxcar
Description:  This was a very misty or foggy day in Abilene, Texas, during December 1987, so I didn't get this car's number.
Photo Date:  12/18/1987  Upload Date: 11/10/2013 11:47:32 PM
Location:  Abilene, TX
Author:  Jonathan Spurlock
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Winter
Locomotives: 
Views:  110   Comments: 1
T&P X4452
Title:  T&P X4452
Description:  This car is still lettered for Texas and Pacific, and has an X prefix, perhaps denoting company service. It was parked on a siding in Abilene, TX during December 1987. The car looks like a 40-foot car with a six- to eight-foot wide sliding door
Photo Date:  12/18/1987  Upload Date: 11/11/2013 3:26:58 PM
Location:  Abilene, TX
Author:  Jonathan Spurlock
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Winter
Locomotives: 
Views:  139   Comments: 0
TTX autorack, number unknown,
Title:  TTX autorack, number unknown,
Description:  This (empty?) TTX autorack with Southern Ry cover was part of a long train in Abilene, TX in December 1987.
Photo Date:  12/18/1987  Upload Date: 11/11/2013 3:30:51 PM
Location:  Abilene, TX
Author:  Jonathan Spurlock
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Winter
Locomotives: 
Views:  93   Comments: 0


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