Saturday, March 22, 2008

Another Picture Worth A Thousand Words


Any other slogan would render this caboose almost invisible.

Not only is this guy sitting on the only rails around, the "big train" has packed up and moved to the edge of town. This is Marysville, Kansas and the UP mainline from Kansas City to Gibbon Jct. used to pass right through the downtown area. The main and yard tracks were recently moved outside of town where the crew change facilities are still being developed. Even this caboose was moved, though just down the street along the old main to make room for a small park where the tracks used to be.

This very caboose (or at least one with the same slogan) has caused several good laughs at HAPT slide shows as it used to work the Salina, KS (on the old KP line) to McPherson, KS branch behind the usual 4 or 5 cars and loco. Three of us "contributors" went to Bethany College in Lindsborg which is right on the line where it crossed the MoPac's Pueblo, CO main. One memorable slide features only the loco and caboose running light on the branch. So much for "big train". The slogan would be a bit more believable behind a long train rolling over Sherman Hill in Wyoming but those new fangled bay window cabeese bumped some of these old guys to side routes. Of course all of them, old and new fangled alike, are "bumped" now. Even the rails through Lindsborg are all gone.

BC

1 comment:

Debate Coach said...

I've identified one more caboose with the same slogan at the Nevada Southern Ry (tourist/museum line) in Boulder City, NV. It is no longer in that scheme. Scroll down to the caboose.

http://members.trainorders.com/rrchuck/nevada_southern_railway.htm

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