March 6, 1976

Cool machine.

I thought that the #610 pulled the Freedom Train in Texas.  Maybe this is where they changed engines?

Paul Fischer

fisch330 posted:

I thought that the #610 pulled the Freedom Train in Texas.  Maybe this is where they changed engines?

Paul Fischer

I was expecting to see #610, and was surprised when I got there and saw the GS-4 sitting there. 

Not sure exactly where #610 took over, but there is someone on this forum who, most likely, knows.

I think Austin and Ft. Worth were the end points for 610.  Houston's stop had the Texas locomotive.  She is the forgotten AFT locomotive, and in some ways, the most interesting!

i recall "chasing" the train up through Wisconsin.  We first picked it up in Butler, WI and followed, photographed and viewed the engine all the way up to Green Bay where it spent a bit of time at the National Railroad Museum.  We did the same thing with the Flying Scotsman some five or six years earlier.  Great memories.

Paul Fischer