A Roger Puta Photograph
Roger wrote, "Crew eating oyster stew in caboose." The late Roger Puta's slide was scanned and posted by Marty Bernard.
The train is the southbound Seminole. This was an Illini football weekend and I was there visiting a railfan student close friend. He suggested the night shot having scoped it out. Two flashes, on... (more)
Though I labeled the slide "Lone Star" it is way too long and this must be the Southwest Limited.
With Empire Builder cars.
The City of New Orleans. 450 and 451 were test engines, Amtrak acquired none. The second unit in the picture, smoking it up from the soot built up while idling in Union Station, is 194, a GP40TC.
Second unit is F7A 1784.
The General will be home at Union Station in a few minutes.
Handing up orders.
Note the turntable to the left.
Early F units usually came in set of 4, i.e., ABBA. The CB&Q found that for most trains on its mostly flat railroad ABA sets were sufficient so the ABBAs were broken into ABs with another newer A... (more)
