Santa Fe at Temple TX

Trains Magazine General Discussion
1

I drove throught Temple TX Sunday afternoon and stopped to see the BNSF engine service yard. You would have thought that it was still owned by the Santa Fe. Almost every engine in the yard area was in SF paint (with a discrete BNSF near the locmotive number). I much prefer BNSF’s renumbering approach to that yellow and red bandaid that UP is using.

dd

2

I agree about the BNSF approach. While you were in Temple, did you get to see any of the cabooses which have (rather crudely) Shoving Platform Only stenciled on the sides?

3

No - the only other thing I saw was a gravel train - even it had SF engines.

dd

4

Yes when I 1st saw the UPRR bandaid on a SPRR loco I wonder to myself if the UPRR was short of $$$$$$ & could not afford the paint for a total repainting. [;)]

5

From the old railroads of BNSF, only the Santa Fe reached the Gulf in Texas, Frisco reached the Gulf in Mobile… The old Fort Worth & Denver did exactly that, and the Frisco never ventured further south than DFW… Therefore, the reason why there is so much former Santa Fe equipment in Temple…

6

However, most of the time I stop there BNSF has a much broader variety of paint. One time most of what was in the shop area was from TFM!

dd

7

The Frisco was built and went all the way to Menard, below San Angelo, in the early 1900s, when it was under ATSF control, and then the line was sold to GCSF.