This is well after midnight on a July night in 1960...Sometime around 1:30 am. The place is that stretch of Highway 54, south of Pastura, where Al Coyote picked up Oscar Raccoon when it was still daylight to give him a ride as far as Santa Rosa.
This is the same train that will be going through Duran at 2:07 am, traveling at 80 mph.
There were still thunderstorms in the areas of Vaughn and Santa Rosa...Those storms will be leaving in another day or two.
At the time of pics; #1, #2 and #3, the pit bull teens who had a mouth full of Old Crow whiskey spit on Oscar Raccoon from Daddy's '59 Cadillac while it was still daylight, are just about wrapping up a session of stealing gumball machines in Albuquerque for the night.
Also at the time of pics; #1, #2 and #3, Al Coyote, his wife Marge, and cubs; Jed, Rex, Clarence and Donna are getting a good night's sleep at home in Duran.
Approximately three hours after the time of pics; #1, #2 and #3, it will be shortly after 4:30 am when Oscar Raccoon will be knocking on the front door of his mom and dad's house in Plains, Kansas...Oscar finally makes it home where he and his family will be so happy to see each other again. Hours before the time of the first 3 pics, it was a while before sunset, at a truck stop outside of Santa Rosa, that Oscar Raccoon had gotten a ride from an aardwolf who is a truck driver. The truck driver was on a route that would take him through Plains, Kansas, which worked out great for Oscar. All the truck driver asked from Oscar was to have conversations with him to help him keep awake while driving.
Pics; #4, #5 and #6 is that same train run days later after the thunderstorms had left, thus there being clear weather for a while. However, there is some thunderstorm activity on the horizon.
Pic #8. Later into the night...from the time the southbound passenger train went by, to 2:00 am, 3:00 am and 4:00 am...the tracks are clear to the north, thus the signal is on green.
The old GG1 electrics are also cool. In the part of the U.S. most of my mom's relatives settled in, Penn-Central railroad (formally Pennsylvania Railroad) used those.
