For those who like trains..or history & trains

[TinysMom]

There is a newsletter type thingy published her monthly lately and the newest edition just arrived in our mailbox. They had an interesting feature selection of articles this month about the Trains of Southwest Texas. I thought some of y'all might want to read it.

http://www.swtexaslive.com/

Here are some of the specific articles:

http://www.swtexaslive.com/node/4510 - The Southern Pacific Railroad across Texas

http://www.swtexaslive.com/node/4500 Trainment remember

http://www.swtexaslive.com/node/4491 - Rail Costs of business: Trainwrecks, philanthropy and missed family milestones


Peg

 

[Johncdn]

Thanks for the link. I can be a pretty big geek for this kind of stuff.

I remember once I was looking up something about a famous derailment at the El Cajon Pass, that led me to a whole lot of links of western / southwestern rail pictures. Blew a whole day on that.:shock:

If you like big stuff another cool place to kill time is

http://www.boatnerd.com/

Check put all the big freighters that sail the Great Lakes.