ATLT SW1200 1127 switches the Wheeler Brothers grain facility in Watonga, Oklahoma on a windy spring afternoon.
The railroad had been a Rock Island branch; there was an interim operator for a couple years before Wheeler Brothers Grain Company purchased the line in May, 1985. The company is known as the AT&L Railroad, Inc. In a break from longstanding railroad tradition, the initials don't stand for cities served (or hoped to be served); AT&L stands for Austin, Todd and Ladd Lafferty, grandsons of E. O. "Gene" Wheeler, mid-80s owner of the grain company.
