Final shot of the day, SHUN runs by Morton's grocery store while customers wonder what in the world I'm doing standing on a buggy to get above the cars in the parking lot.
Some guy in a maroon Explorer doesn't know how to park... I mean, he's takin up like 3 spaces! I wonder who that crazy parker is...
CXSH comes into Morton in quite a rush. Good thing for me though since the sun was going down.
The factory is already in operation as this morning's manifest train rolled through Morton. Total of 6 engines: KCS 6106, 6610, 655, 610, 640, and 702.
The Detector and a tower sit at this crossing and begin calculating as CLAT speeds by.
This Artesia-to-Lake Charles Mixed Freight barrels through milepost 64.6 leaving West Harmon Siding
NS 8664 leads the ATDA through the Bienville National Forest on a HOT August afternoon.
NS 8859 and NS 9785 leads a 2nd section of the ATDA intermodal past West Morton on its way west through the Magnolia State.
BNSF 4006 leaves the siding at East Harmon with DTC to Lake to meet another before continuing to Meridian for interchange to NS.
2 NS Dash 9s and a KCS SD40T-2 leads the daily ATDA through Morton, MS at track speed just before sunset.
A pair of Illinois Central Gulf-built GP10s in MidSouth paint are working the Morton, MS International Paper Mill under the Kansas City Southern Banner. MSCR 1017 and 1043 are readying a cut of p... (more)