For those of you interested ,4141 ran the excursion train from College Sta.Tx to Big" D" and back this w/end…Take a look at this www.railroadpictures.net Thot Y’all might like to see…Danny [:D]
Tried to open your link,but it wouldn’t show any photos of the 1411 Excursion Train.By the way,which route from Dallas to B/CS did it travel?The former Espoee Dalsa Line from Dallas to Hearne and B/CS or the former MoPac Route through Waco;Marlin;Mumford and Bryan/College?My Wife and I went to Ennis to the Galaxy Drive In to see “Walk the Line”,and we decided to wait and see if the 1411 Excursion Train was gonna show up.we asked the Curator at the Ennis Railroad Museum if he knew anything about it,he said “No Passenger Trains.Freight Only.”.So we paid $4.00 and toured the Museum.Great Movie.Interesting Museum.
Your link is to the home page not the specific photo or subject in question.
Well,
You have to navigate it… Fill in the boxes and type 4141 in the key word search and it should show them…
It took the back door into Waco from Marlin to Bellmeade and left the same way…
Here is one of the locomotive from RR Picture Archives at College Station TX … http://www.RRPictureArchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=208426
And one of the whole train at Dallas TX…
http://www.RRPictureArchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=227224
Here is one of the locomotive cab… note that most or all of the new SD-70-ACe’s have a 26-L engineer’s control stand in place of the desktop controls. I also have noticed that GE has gone back to 26-L’s as well on their new ES-44’s.
Some of the older SD75 units from just a few years ago came equipped with the traditional styled controls as well. There are some photos on railpictures net. The Canadians and NS ordered a number of their wide cab EMDs with the traditional style stand.
From what I read, many locomotive engineers don’t like the “Trolley Car” desktop controls and prefer to have the stand on their left side, where they’ve been since the 1930s (why do designers always mess with something that already works well?)
Nice loco, ho hum paint scheme and I wonder who UP are kissing***too, would have looked so much better in DRGW.