UP 4364

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Jason Lockhart, Sr.	General	There was once a very excellent reason for this signal. This was once the interlocking for where the MOP crossed the Espee. This is the location of the Interlocking Tower #74. The missing track and the track that the freight is bending on to was the MOP Main Line through Beaumont. The track the freight is leaving from and the track disappearing into the trees to the left was the Espee main. In the mid-late 1960s, the City of Beaumont mandated that the Espee had to abandon its Neches River Bridge and consolidate the main line from Tower 74 to the East bank of the Neches River with the MOP and the KCS. The end effect of this was that it created a single railroad track transversing the downtown district. Espee then relocated its passenger facilities to Tower 74 and their they remain to this very day...even if all there is left of tower 74 is a concrete slab.	8/20/2007 5:36:49 PM

UP 4364
A UPRR soda ash train passes the Amtrak Depot at Beaumont. Though the connecting track has been removed, pot signal at CP LF980 still burns red.
Date: 5/22/2007	Location: Beaumont, TX Map	Views: 1148	Collection Of: Christopher Palmieri
Locomotives: UP 4364(SD70M)			Author: Christopher Palmieri

Picture Categories: Station,Signal,Action		This picture is part of album: 2nd Quarter 2007 - CMP

Add a Comment:
Please Log in to leave a Comment.