This is part of the Eastern Great Plains Spring Break 2012 Road Trip series.
Welcome to Part 2 of Day 3 of Jimbaux’s Spring Break 2012 Road Trip.
After spending the morning foaming the old Santa Fe Transcon west of Kansas City and then paying a visit to the Midland Railway Historical Association, as seen in Part 1 of the Day 3 pictures, I resumed my northward journey.
My first picture is somewhere south of the city of Sabetha, Kansas.
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This is the view northward along the highway as one approaches Sabetha.
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This is Sabetha.
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This is interesting.
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Okay, automobile people, tell us what it is.
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I like this church.
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This is an inside joke.
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This is the old Sabetha High School building.
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I like this old style of house.
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Well, that was fun, but I have to continue northward. Thanks, Sabetha.
North of town, I see this.
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This is so weird!
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It’s like the boat is floating in a sea of grass, and the sedan is almost like some sort of watercraft itself.
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I was mesmerized by the scene.
In the early-mid afternoon, I entered Nebraska. Here is a northward view along the highway in Auburn, Nebraska.
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Not long thereafter, I arrived in Lincoln, where I last visited in July 2008 and where I met with the same foamie with whom I met in that July 2008 visit.
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We then went foaming. Out on the old Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad line between Omaha and Lincoln, we caught up with this grain train full of Kansas City Southern Railway rolling stock – basically, a train off of the KCS – with no time at all to spare.
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I got some shots of some of the neat cars.
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Yes, this is what passes for “neat cars” more than a decade into the 21st Century.
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This is BNSF Railway train X-KCMLIN3-31. I think that, given the context, you know what those station codes mean.
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We then proceeded to Ashland, where we saw this.
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Yeah, that wire is very annoying. Let’s see the train much closer.
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That’s okay.
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We then went east of the junction with the line to Omaha, where the line down the Missouri River ducks under the US Highway 6 bridge.
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We didn’t see any trains, but knowledge that these views existed would come in handy for me later.
Yes, it’s ironic that I was foaming with Q on The Q.
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That’s how this day ended, or, at least, before the host and I parted ways for the evening and I found my hotel.
That was a really intense Day 3 of Jimbaux’s 2012 Spring Break Road Trip. Day 4 was less intense, which was fine, because I needed the break, and that translates into fewer pictures, which is why it will be in only one part. Actually, the only remaining day that I plan to split into parts is the one for Day 6, April 4, but we’ll get to that.
For now, I hope that you have enjoyed Day 3 and are looking forward to Day 4.
Thanks for reading this. I appreciate it.
Jim