jvega2 posted:briansilvermustang posted:
Very cool pic Brian, do you know who took the pic? Looks like an East Bound fast mail maybe around circa late 40’s - 50’s by the looks of the car on the Main St bridge?
Actually, it could be any of several trains that used Alcos -- Fast Mail, Grand Canyon, Tulsan, San Francisco Chief, although not all were scheduled to be at Kansas City in daylight hours.
The date is definitely 1960 or later. That's when the windshield and nose grabirons, nose multiple-unit control receptacles, and Santa Fe shop-built oscillating headlight were added to the Alcos. They had just received radio (ground plane on roof) and Leslie chime air horns in 1958-'59.