Re: A LOT depends on your engineer . . .

Tomstp Wrote:
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> I remember watching 4449 in Ft Worth start from a
> dead stop and climb up a hill from the Rock Island
> yard to Tower 55. It was impressive both in sound
> and the train it was pulling up that grade. 4449
> really was barking.


I was nearby, Tom -

Was that on March 9 or March 10, 1976, when the AFT left Ft. Worth for Oklahoma City on a long straight stretch of track heading west in a fairly wide median with roads on both sides?  IIRC I had used up my last roll of film the day before (see [ngdiscussion.net]), so Dick Jensen and I just stood there and watched #4449 charge up the hill at us with the Ft. Worth skyline in the background.  Did you get any photos that you could post here?

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