On a hazy, humid March morning in 1967, Kansas City Southern Train 1, the Southern Belle, is just ten minutes out of Union Station as it makes its way along Kansas City Terminal trackage near Van Brunt Boulevard. Just over 21 hours from now, after a leisurely 40-mph ramble through Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana, the consist of head-end cars, RPO, coaches, sleeper and tavern/observation car will pull into New Orleans and the party will begin. Lead unit E7A 12, purchased in 1962 from Maine Central by KCS subsidiary Louisiana & Arkansas, is dazzling in the original Belle livery of dark Brunswick green, yellow and red, a paint scheme that to the joy of photographers the railroad will adopt decades later for all its diesels.
Huge Album that Includes over 2,600+ photos of classic passenger trains across USA & Canada before and during the time of Amtrak & VIA Rail. More Images will be Added.
Photos of North America's favorite First Generation locomotives. EMD, ALCO, Baldwin; essentially anything that represents the OG wide cab diesel locomotive
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just heritage schemes, not just commemorative schemes - this album is devoted to some of the world's most interesting paint schemes, past or present.
