Wednesday Feb 27 2008
Checking the Train
Back in August of 1990 this photo finds us in the cab of Santa Fe SD40-2 5079 leading four more SD40-2’s and a loaded 120-car coal train eastbound through the hogbacks alongside Highway 287 between Childress and Kirkland, Texas.
As we round a curve where the whole train is visible, now is the time the head-end brakeman is looking back and his counterpart along with the conductor are looking forward from the caboose to see if anything is amiss with the string of cars in between.
