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Thread #140714   Message #3837907
Posted By: Joe Offer
10-Feb-17 - 02:51 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Was there really a train 'Lonesome Pine'
Subject: RE: Origins: Was there really a train 'Lonesome Pine'
Sid, are you referring to Southern Railway No 1401 at the Smithsonian? Yes, that one is a beautiful locomotive. I've been drawn more to the big Union Pacific locomotives like the Big Boy and Challenger (not to mention the Southern Pacific Cab Forwards that used to go past what's now my home), but there were some really beautiful U.S. locomotives, like the Southern 1401 and the N&W 611. Here on the West Coast, we have the Southern Pacific Daylight, No. 4449.
-Joe-

Feast your eyes on this collection of streamlined locomotives (click).

And this one: