Sometimes a train is only one car! Here, Bob Roth's beautiful scratchbuilt CF-7 makes a caboose hop over one of Paul Sowle's neat bridges.
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The plains of Texas are vast, flat, and beautiful in their own way, with the tallest features being grain elevators! Here, a long train of iced down reefers charge past the Producer's Grain complex east of Amarillo. It is the late 1940's, and iced boxcars will give way to mechanical refrigeration in just a few years. But you can relive these heady days at the Amarillo Railroad Museum today!
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When Paul Sowle says he wants to build a "little bridge", get ready for five feet of handsome modeling! Paul has helped the ARM cross a large gorge on its way out of Dave Jusiak's burning town, and toward "The Big City"! Thanks, Paul, for the short cut!
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It's a gloomy, rainy day at the ARM as Santa Fe 627 starts his run! You can almost hear the releasing brakes and thousands of Diesel horses pull to their traces! The throb of GE's finest sends a tingle up your spine as you shiver from both the cold and from the thrill of watching modern railroading up close!
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The Union Pacific comes to Amarillo from Dalhart, Texas, and sends only the best kept equipment with the finest paint schemes! Actually, it is fun to watch the UP, as it is often more colorful than the BNSF, with its mix of ATSF Warbonnets, BN Green, BNSF Orange, BNSF Green and Tan, Executive Schemes, etc!
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The ARM crosses some difficult territory! We have a ringside seat as the echo of steam power and steel wheels come roaring out of Tunnel 1 and over the Gorge Bridge on Tracy Ball's sharp modules!
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Holy Moly! The town is on fire! Amarillo Fireman and ARM Director David Jusiak keeps the crews busy on his interesting modules. It seems a firebug must be about, as all of his modules feature firemen doing their duty! Here we see a large mansion ablaze, and the water is pouring in! Can't you hear the crackle of weakening roof beams, and smell the embers?
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The Amarillo Railroad Museum is a shortline, so we have to have short cars, too! ARM Treasurer Skip Smith is the proud owner of these business cars. He says they are fun to travel in, but the last time he got to go, somebody shortsheeted his bed! Ah, that kind of problem deserves to be given shortshrift! We'll be back to serious again shortly . . .
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It is an early spring day, March 15, 2002, as the BNSF rolls new cars into Amarillo, Texas, on their way west. Garvey Grain Elevator and the old flour mill are in the background. Note the soaring bird of prey above the locomotive. The "new" BNSF Executive paint scheme is rapidly fading from orange to almost Union Pacific yellow. What scheme is next for these handsome units?
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The Texas Panhandle enjoys some beautiful architecture, including the Southwestern Public Service Company "Super Power" building. Originally a power plant, this building in Amarillo is now used for storage and as a meter rebuilding shop. A feature article on this building is underway for publishing on this website! Check regularly for updates!
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