Martin Lake Line Explained

Texas Utilities Martin Lake Line
Parent Company:Luminant
Marks:TUGX
Locale:Martin Lake Power Plant
Electrification:25 kV AC, 60 Hz (1976-2011)

The Martin Lake Line is a railroad owned and operated by Texas Utilities and hauled Lignite coal from nearby mines at the Oak Hill Mine and Beckville Mine, until their closures in the later 2010's, to the Martin Lake Power Plant and has a connection with the BNSF Railway's Longview Subdivision near Tatum, TX. Coal from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming is transferred onto the line via the connection with BNSF. The line was constructed as an electrified line, using 25 kV AC, 60 Hz electrification, and operated GE E25Bs and former Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México GE E60s;[1] [2] however, the line was de-electrified in 2011.[3]

Motive Power

Year builtBuilderModelNumbersNotes
1976 2300-2306Displaced by GE E60s in 1999
1982-1983General Electric TransportationGE E60C-2 N/AFormer N de M.
1953 1537 Former ATSF. Disposition unknown.
N/AGeneral Electric TransportationGE U23B2309-2310, 23013 Used to haul ash trains.
N/A Electro-Motive Division23020-33030, 53002-53003
2004Electro-Motive Division5308-5309 Former EMD demonstrator units 1205 and 1206.

References

Notes and References

  1. Book: Model Railroad Craftsman . 1978 . Carstens Pub. . en. First used on Texas Utilities Company's 11-mile Monticello line, which is home to a trio of the motors, two more just went into service on the Martin Lake line ....
  2. Book: Extra Twenty-two Hundred South . 2000 . Dover Printing. . en. 5510 and 5533 work on the Monticello line, and 5516 and 5521 on the Martin Lake line . -Staff Transglobal Railh ....
  3. Harwell . Jeffrey A. . Feb 2012 . From electric to diesel . . 72 . 2 . 50–51 . 0041-0934 . ProQuest.