This shot, taken from the caboose, emphasizes the hills we run through on the Austin & Texas Central RR. I had rented the caboose for the Central Texas Chapter of the National Railroad Historical Society. I worked the trip as conductor, and I rode the caboose with the group, of which I was the chapter president at the time. The grade here is about 1.5 percent, and is less steep than many of our hills. We are about to cross the San Gabriel River on the oldest trestle in the state of Texas.