#dalhart

[treasuresfromthearchives]

Abandoned Farm in the Dustbowl, Coldwater District, near Dalhart, Texas, June

Dorothea Lange American Printer Library of Congress

1938, printed ca. 1972

[pangeen]

" Supercell " // © Jonas Piontek

[railwayhistorical]

Out of the Mirage (Part Four of Four)

Here’s the going-away sequence of the northbound train in the previous post. Again, this is the former Rock Island line down to Tucumcari. These photographs were taken a few miles north of Dalhart, Texas, in the Panhandle.

Five images by Richard Koenig; taken April 27th 2023.

[railwayhistorical]

Out of the Mirage (Part Three of Four)

After the southbound in the previous two posts, I waited around a bit for this northbound train. Again, this is the former Rock Island line down to Tucumcari. These photographs were taken a few miles north of Dalhart, Texas, in the Panhandle.

Five images by Richard Koenig; taken April 27th 2023.

[railwayhistorical]

Out of the Mirage (Part Two of Four)

Here’s a going-away sequence of the southbound train on the former Rock Island line to Tucumcari. These photographs were taken a few miles north of Dalhart, Texas, in the Panhandle.

The amount of merchandise one of these double-stack trains can haul is truly astounding (although many of these, if not all, could be empty—but my next post will balance this out).

Five images by Richard Koenig; taken April 27th 2023.

[railwayhistorical]

Out of the Mirage (Part One of Four)

Here’s a southbound train on the former Rock Island line to Tucumcari. These photographs were taken a few miles north of Dalhart, Texas, in the Panhandle.

Five images by Richard Koenig; taken April 27th 2023.

[railwayhistorical]

Generations

Here’s a couple more shots from Dalhart, Texas—two aging EMD units, of the first and second generations, built in La Grange, Illinois. The locomotives rest along the former Colorado & Southern Railway.

Burlington Northern 2899 was built as a GP35 in 1965 while BNSF 1609 is an SD40-2 from 1979.

Two images by Richard Koenig; taken April 27th 2023.

[railwayhistorical]

Elevators

Exploring the panhandle of Texas, I took a few shots in Dalhart. These two elevators were close to where the C&S, which ran between Denver and Fort Worth, crossed the Rock Island line down to Tucumcari, New Mexico, where it met the Southern Pacific. Of course the lines are now BNSF and Union Pacific respectively.

One image by Richard Koenig; taken April 27th 2023.