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By:Jim Satterwhite
Dates:4/15/1965 - 3/28/1968
Album Info:Our family moved to Greenville, Texas in May 1965. I joined the Air Force in March 1968. This album comprises a selection of scanned slides from that time period. It includes MKT, L&A and SSW Railroads in Greenville, Dallas, Commerce and Terrell, Texas.
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ATSF 2310
Title:  ATSF 2310
Description:  The Wichita chapter of the NRHS chartered a special car on a mixed train running from Emporia to Abilene, Kansas.
Photo Date:  4/15/1965  Upload Date: 6/11/2009 9:49:33 PM
Location:  Abilene, KS
Author:  Jim Satterwhite
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
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Views:  2901   Comments: 2
ATSF 3002
Title:  ATSF 3002
Description:  The Wichita Chapter of the NHRS chartered a mixed train. Matched H-16-14s are seen running around the train in Abilene.
Photo Date:  4/15/1965  Upload Date: 6/11/2009 9:44:07 PM
Location:  Abilene, KS
Author:  Jim Satterwhite
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3002(H-16-44)
Views:  1874   Comments: 2
My First Train Picture
Title:  My First Train Picture
Description:  I took a train ride from Wichita Kansas to Emporia and return during the Thanksgiving Holiday in 1964. It was a cold, rainy day and I turned and snapped this scene before I walked into the lunch room
Photo Date:  5/25/1965  Upload Date: 6/1/2009 11:48:17 PM
Location:  Emporia, KS
Author:  Jim Satterwhite
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  ATSF 86(E8A)
Views:  2594   Comments: 1
Cotton Belt Depot
Title:  Cotton Belt Depot
Description:  My railroad career began here and lasted a summer between semesters while I attended East Texas State University. My railroad vocation evaporated 39-days later when the Cotton Compress in Greenville closed its doors forever.
Photo Date:  8/25/1965  Upload Date: 6/2/2009 10:40:40 PM
Location:  Greenville, TX
Author:  Jim Satterwhite
Categories:  Station
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Views:  604   Comments: 1
The Fuel Pit
Title:  The Fuel Pit
Description:  SSW 1069 rest at the fuel pit in Commerce, Texas on a September afternoon.
Photo Date:  9/16/1965  Upload Date: 5/19/2009 10:42:23 PM
Location:  Commerce, TX
Author:  Jim Satterwhite
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SSW 1069(SW1200)
Views:  1026   Comments: 0
MV 102
Title:  MV 102
Description:  My grandfather's funeral was on a dreary day in the winter of 1965. I heard a diesel idling so I sneaked away from the family long enough to grab a shot of a caboose and GP-7. Who knew that the Midland Valley would be history a few years later?
Photo Date:  11/25/1965  Upload Date: 6/1/2009 11:28:52 PM
Location:  Pawhuska, OK
Author:  Jim Satterwhite
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  MV 102(GP7)
Views:  1103   Comments: 0
Manifest freight
Title:  Manifest freight
Description:  Freight was hot and heavy in 1967. Sometimes three sections of the Blue Streak would run through Greenville.
Photo Date:  5/16/1966  Upload Date: 6/2/2009 10:42:21 PM
Location:  Greenville, TX
Author:  Jim Satterwhite
Categories: 
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Views:  580   Comments: 3
KCS 58
Title:  KCS 58
Description:  KCS engine 58 will be in charge of the eastbound L&A (Louisiana & Arkansas) train to Shreveport on a dark, dreary fall day.
Photo Date:  11/25/1966  Upload Date: 6/1/2009 11:19:50 PM
Location:  Greenville, TX
Author:  Jim Satterwhite
Categories:  Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  KCS 58(F7A)
Views:  1542   Comments: 0
Caboose
Title:  Caboose
Description:  An old wood bodied caboose languishes at Commerce, TX
Photo Date:  4/12/1967  Upload Date: 6/11/2009 11:20:49 PM
Location:  Commerce, TX
Author:  Jim Satterwhite
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  637   Comments: 1
Unloading Beer
Title:  Unloading Beer
Description:  Ben E.Keith Distribution unloads beer from boxcars to trucks in Denison, Texas. For years, Old Tom, a big, black mongrel, oversaw SP, Frisco and K,O&G operations from his spot on the end of the dock. The old freight house is history now, but it was located about 150-yeards east and on the other side of (south) of Main Street from the present day Katy Depot.
Photo Date:  4/12/1967  Upload Date: 6/11/2009 11:19:17 PM
Location:  Denison, TX
Author:  Jim Satterwhite
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SP 3631(GP9)
Views:  1154   Comments: 2
SSW 823
Title:  SSW 823
Description:  Power for the Paris Turn rest in Commerce on a hot afternoon.
Photo Date:  9/15/1967  Upload Date: 6/2/2009 10:41:28 PM
Location:  Commerce, TX
Author:  Jim Satterwhite
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SSW 823(GP9) SSW 1069(SW1200)
Views:  2534   Comments: 2
Lonesome Dove
Title:  Lonesome Dove
Description:  Santa Fe boxcars were pressed into storage use on many ranches in West Texasl
Photo Date:  2/17/2017  Upload Date: 2/20/2017 8:12:06 PM
Location:  Shallowater, TX
Author:  Jim Satterwhite
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  249   Comments: 0
Lonesome Dove
Title:  Lonesome Dove
Description:  Boxcars often became storage buildings on ranches in West Texas.
Photo Date:  2/17/2017  Upload Date: 2/20/2017 8:14:09 PM
Location:  Shallowater, TX
Author:  Jim Satterwhite
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  303   Comments: 2


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