I received an email from a friend, Forrest Becht, this morning.  Forrest has done lots of rail photography over the years, and the email contained a half dozen images that he had captured during the time that he was the General Manager of the Louisiana and Delta Railroad.  Two of the photos caught my attention and, with Forrest's permission, I'm posting them here along with his captions for the pictures.

This is a rather unusual method of transporting rail traffic (see caption below photo):

I was headed over to the state park east of my house and to get there I have to cross the UP (ex-C&EI) line. I hadn't been that way in awhile and I discovered that the rail was marked at the crossing:

I've never seen this before and the track is a good mile and half from the next nearest track, the CN (formerly IC) main that runs from Chicago to New Orleans.  It's marked this way on both sides of the crossing.

On True Line Trains website, it states that "We've updated the tooling on these models with more correctly shaped windows." regarding the second release of the offset cupola caboose and the new release of the transfer van. I called the hobby shop today and asked twice to make sure if the newest run of the offset cupola caboose has the proper rectangual windows like the transfer van has, and the clerk said yes. Excited off I went on my over one hour commute to get there only to discover the clerk was wrong not to mention True Line Trains.

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