November 18, 2015 01:26PM
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Hello again -
Like most other short moves, the AFT traveled from Portland, Oregon to Salem during the wee hours of the morning, so I don't have any action shots to share. In Salem, the train was set up on a spur passing through the middle of Willamette University; IIRC the following were taken on Sunday morning, November 16, after a pretty good rain the night before
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By mid-morning there was a pretty good crowd gathered around #4449, which was located a block or two away from the Freedom Train's exhibit cars. The second shot, above, clearly shows the wide platform with stairs that allowed kids of all ages to get a good look into the cab. Depending on which side of the engine it was positioned, there was an 'engineer' or a 'fireman' (usually one of us long-term volunteers) performing "sore throat duty"
: describing all the gauges and controls and answering the many, many questions posed by the visitors. "Is This a Diesel" and "Does It Burn Coal" were asked several times a day. Occasionally we were asked where the motor was hidden; at least twice during my five months with the train a model railroader asked where the worm gear was, or how did we hide it so well
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The journey from Salem to Eugene isn't much longer than from Portland to Salem, and also began around 2:00 a.m., but a lot of switching had to be done before our locomotive was again separated from the train, and the latter moved to its display site. IIRC, this was in the median strip of a wide boulevard in the suburb of Springfield, a little to the east of downtown. In any event, the delay allowed me to get at least a few shots of #4449 moving around on the east side of the big yard in Eugene on the very dark and foggy morning of November 18, 1975
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I caught this portrait of fireman Al Phillips sweeping the cab during a lull in the "action" - he'd probably been up for a good 36 hours at this point, though not on duty the whole time. ("The Morning After the Night Before" has been posted previously, many years ago - but this is a new and much sharper scan)
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Like nearly all of us hard-core Curmudgeons, Al is now in his mid-seventies. But unlike most of us, he's still working full-time - in the locomotive shops of the Tennessee Valley RR Museum in Chattanooga, home of recently-restored ex-Southern 2-8-2 #4501 (see [
ngdiscussion.net] and [
ngdiscussion.net]).
A long freight passed, probably headed southeast on the main line through Klamath Falls, but possibly south on the old Siskiyou Line through Roseburg and Grants Pass. Afterward, #4449 backed toward the old depot, nearly hidden in the heavy fog
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(To Be Continued.)
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Roosso
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 06/05/2023 10:15AM by Russo Loco.
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