Comanche & Indian Gap Railroad 2018

Spring Meet

Robert Willis Drone Photos

Robert Willis used a high-flying drone to capture the following images of the Comanche & Indian Gap Railroad during the Spring Fling, April 2018. Click on the photos to enlarge (actually, click, then click again).

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  Switching operations well underway at Mexican Hat on the Comanche & Indian Gap RR. The top of the wye is the west end of the Houston East & West Texas RR (The "Rabbit"). The left end of the wye leads to Tlaquepaque.

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  The big loop on the west end of the Comanche & Indian Gap RR. The area covered by trees next to the caboose is Tlaquepaque. Mexican Hat is just to the right of the wye. The HEWT starts on the left side of the wye. Curving to the left from Tlaquepaque you reach Summit, then straight into Anasazi, then continue to cross the HEWT and on to Gotebo. After crossing the CIG, the HEWT moves to the left and then up into West Yard and Springerville. You can just make out Indian Gap and the Pickard homestead in the upper right of the photo.

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  View of the Indian Gap yard and the steaming bays and transfer table of the Comanche and Indian Gap RR. The east end of the Houston East & West Texas RR (HEWT) also starts here at Indian Gap.

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  An overhead view of the Indian Gap yard and shops, along with the steaming bays and the transfer table.

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  A view of the Comanche Yard, which is on the east end of the Comanche & Indian Gap Railroad.

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  Trains waiting at Comanche Yard.