Coming off the newly rebuilt Victoria Subdivision (former SP Macaroni Line) onto the Sunset Route in Rosenberg on November 7 2010.
On the Sunset Route in Rosenberg, Texas in 2007 before the Macaroni was rebuilt and the KCS trains had to go through Flatonia to get to and from Victoria.
This train was an exhibit at Railroad Days in Meridian, MS 20-ish years ago. During a cab tour the engineer said the F control stands and electronics had been replaced with current-day EMD controls so that all road engineers could bid on exec train tours. The engineer's wife was included onboard for the full tour. It was a company-funded two-week family vacation that was eagerly bid.
Here's the site describing the Meridian Railfest I attended. https://www.glimpsesofmeridian.com/gom-2.html
There's a "pocket streamliner" that'd be easy to model! That E-3 sure is an odd lookin' unit. Is that 6 porthole windows? never seen that!
She's not just any E-3A, she's the first. Originally she was EMC demonstrator 822. She was painted in a unique rainbow scheme, and had a flush headlight like the B&O EAs and the Santa Fe's E-1A. Those units had number boards like these, but smaller (too small). There's a photo in Iron Horses of the Santa Fe Trail of her, brand spanking new, hauling the Kansas Cityan. Originally she had the square window side panels which we now consider standard for the type. She wasn't one of the early units custom built with portholes; those were done for the UP and MP. The square holes in the side weren't unusual, as more than one road had trouble getting enough air into those carbodies. The Santa Fe replaced square panes with filter grills on E-1s, -3s and -6s. In short, she had gotten some modifications over the previous 23 years.
