KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In observation of U.S. Veterans Day, Kansas City Southern today in Shreveport, La., unveiled KCS locomotive No. 4006, newly painted in a patriotic paint scheme. The locomotive is a 2005 EMD SD70ACE maintained in the Shreveport…
http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2018/11/12-kcs-debuts-patriotic-locomotive-for-veterans-day
Jet noise isn’t the only sound of freedom!
EMD’s scream just like jets!
MU hoses. Why?
But doesn’t it’s paint job look a little familirar? Who else thinks it looks a bit like UP 1943?
It does sort of remind my of 1943, but I don’t think it was executed as well. The transition between the three different colors is sort of sudden. In fact, from the side it almost looks like the loco is a package covered in three types of wrapping paper. It is a nice gesture though…
Meh…nice gesture. Paint scheme is a bit of a fail though.
Mark
Because it’s a locomotive and locomotives have them …
But a proper locomotive knows to tuck them in.
Esp. on publicity photos. That’s like rule #1.
beautiful Engine, Thanks KCS!
Why all the criticism? Just be grateful another railroad gave us something very cool to also look at.
No one ever tucks them in. EVER.
Raises hand. I do… And I know someone else that does - so there’s at least 2 of us. We shoudl make shirts.
But for publicity photos? Yeah. Tuck hoses, set mirrors up right, make sure chains are up. Clean up trash. Pretty basic stuff. Guess it’s a lost art anymore.
Thanks for that zugmann! Over the years I have seen many staged publicity photos and there is some newspaper or other light trash in the photo and of course that is what your eye is drawn to.
I particularly have seen the same staged photo on the CPR several times in the Rockies. The train has been stopped for the shot, along a lake , and there is paper trash along the right of way in one spot. Someone should have picked that up.
So thanks and it’s good to know someone out there gives a hoot about all these things.
I like it! Thanks KCS! “Semper Fi” to you!
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I like it! Thanks KCS! “Semper Fi” to you!
I do sometimes. It would help if the plows still came with the folding covers for the gap, then you could really keep snow and crud out of there.
Does NS still discipline people for not tucking them away? I read awhile ago on another forum that they were doing that.
One thing Sam negelected to mention, although I’m sure not purposefully, is that in one way todays service people have it worse than those who served in Vietnam.
In the Marines at least, I’m not sure how the Army handled it, once you did your 13 month tour of duty in 'Nam you didn’t have to worry about going back (in most cases) for another three years. A lot can happen in three years. With the multiple deployments in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq it’s no mystery to me the armed forces are exhausted.
Thank God todays vets aren’t being verbally and physically abused like the 'Nam vets were. I didn’t serve in Vietnam but even I caught some of the fallout. Not fun.
Firelock, I think the big difference may be that back then you had the draft and low pay, so there was a big turnover in personnel. I met someone recently that had served in the military and planned to re-enlist–for the money. When I enlisted a private’s pay was $78 a month.
Speaking of the draft, as much as I dreaded it when I was in my teens, I can see many positive aspects to it. Back in 1990-ish, after letting a couple of new-hires go, my boss was lamenting the fact that he couldn’t find any good people, and attributed it to the lack of the draft. (About 90% of my coworkers close to my age had served in the military.) Besides technical training, we learned respect for authority and how to get along with people. One of the biggest problems with the new-hires was customer complaints about arrogance and rudeness. Well, I’d better stop; this isn’t train related.
Kansas City Southern has always been a classy road. This engine is the latest example; nice work.