Sunday Apr 22 2007
Put Away In the Shed
We were ahead of the train into Magnolia on 05/14/77 with enough time to set up on a loading dock for this shot of it passing the depot as the brakeman swings to the ground to set out a car here.
Later on when the train had arrived in McNeil, AR and the interchange with the Cotton Belt was completed, the two F7’s were put away for the night. L&NW was unique in that instead of the locomotives sitting out in the open, the railroad had constructed a long shed for them to be safely locked away from the elements and the hands of vandals.
The crew will be back the next morning to bring the engines out and return to Gibsland to start the cycle over again.
