Flowers and Windmills

A round trip to Sweetwater this past weekend to see my father resulted in the following train pictures worth sharing.  First up Saturday morning is the UP 7427 West passing through the green belt in Abilene.

Saturday afternoon in Loraine west of Sweetwater the UP 7922 East is passing over a typically narrow underpass on the original highway through here.

The UP 4159 West was in the siding at Loraine, and next up are two side views of the train across the cultivated fields between Loraine and Colorado City.  I have always wondered if the old tank here was used by the T&P for water?

East of Loraine we next encounter the UP 7917 West passing a small part of what is described as the largest wind farm in the United States.

A few miles further east at Roscoe the UP 5322 West is racing past the elevator next to the east switch of the siding here.

On Sunday morning the only train I caught on the way back to Fort Worth was this apparently empty grain train with two units and 67 cars between Putnam and Dothan just off I 20.

Grain trains loaded or empty are a rarity out here these days, so anyone have any guesses as to where this one was coming from or going to?