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Your probably right, it was a timetable train to run behind the Super Chief with all chair cars.

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My guess would be a passenger extra (not a regularly scheduled train)--perhaps a military move, or maybe bringing Boy Scouts back from a western jamboree. No head end cars, domes or bi-levels that the Santa Fe's usual passengers would expect.

yes it is and it was the last class to pull a revinue trip on the b and o to mark the end of the steam era in 1958 about one year after this footage, but, I CANT BELEVE IT FOOTAGE OF GARRETT AND THE COAL TOWER IN CLEAR COLOR, AND THE CRAIN THING i HAVE WONDERED WHAT IT WAS IN THE ONE PHOTO IN THE DEKALB COUNTRY HISTORY ARCHIVES IN INDIANA ITS AN ASH HOIST, it was after the ash would be dumped under the coalling tower during servicing and watering and coaling and sanding it would be conveyed over and that would hoist it and dump the clinker and ash into hopper cars to be carted off, though I cant make out the sand tower that should be right in front, and I dont know what the red building is in the next shot, dad who was a kid during that time said it was some sort of workshop, I cant tell I have searched info since july 17, 2015 when I rode the walbash cannonball route trip behind nkp 765 and a guy Jim fetchero that was the leasing agent for two of the cars for the trip owned by iowa pacific before it broke up, showed me historical photos and areals of garrett and I have been hunting shop and facility information since then. the garrett coal tower and servicing facilitys spaned 4 tracks as you see, could service three engines at once, with the lead for the coal tower shead where it would be dumped into a pit and lifted with a skip bucket hoist to the top of the silo thing it was built or started in 1946 and was made by ogle engineering of chicago and had a coal capacity of 500 tons, and topped out at 90 feet the newspaper said to the top of the house on top that had the hoist control in it, had the water penstocks or water cranes depending how you want to call them, and a sand tower of 200 tons in front of that and as you see the ash hoist on the side, it had all the servicing facilities right there an the grate where they could clean out the ash pan on the ground where the cinders and ash would fall and be move over to the hoist in quiestion replaced a long cinder pit by the roundhouse which can be seen in arieal photos by the darkness of the ground from several decades of coal remains being dumped there, and it had a gantry crane to clean it out which doubled as being used to load coal into locomotives after the origional coal dock made of wood was no longer in use and dismantled, though I dont know when that happened, garret at one time 1926 had a backshop and when it was expanded was the biggest on the b and o aside mount clare or so they hyped in the newspaper, it did have the largest roundhouse though at 32 bays for 12 years from its expansion and referb in 1918 including three new lathes for the shops and a 200 ton locomotive hoist using whitting locomotive jacks of 50 tons capacity each for changing out the wheels faster then using a drop table and even had a picture of it in use in an add for whiting locomotive jack company in railway age magazine in the 1920's I belive it was put into the last stall of the roundhouse which would have been closest to the streetside, I have not found a bigger b and o roundhouse in my searching though even cumberland was only 31, it lost some stalls in 1933 though when some of the enclosed stalls were torn down taking the amount of bays to about 20 and there it remained till january 23 1964 when they tore down the majority of the walls and roof of the roundhouse and burned the debris which caught a powerpole on fire and the fire department had to put the pole out, the remaning last wall pit and run though track was used as an inspection pit on diesles till about 1968 when the last remains it says in the history book were torn down. as for the back shop the buildings were sold to some investers who turned the old car shop, machine shops and blacksmith shop into a truck body making plant for a time I dont know when it went out of buisness or when they tore the buildings down but that plant was in 1948 I belive, and by at least the mid 1950's those buildings are gone or cant be seen on the old aerial photos, and you cant even really see where the building footprints were in the resources available though there are a handfull of photos of the area behind the roundhouse that shows the old footprints of the shops from the early 1960's and 70s, but they are very hard to come by, and one is from the centenial of garrett book from 1975 you can see the outlines of the foundations. and what old steam era buildings were left at that time, like the old pumphouse, depot, the freightshead which is now the museume, the old watchmans tower for the crossing, and the old oil house which is the last building still standing till it colapsed in on itself in 2017 and they took the building and bricks off the platform which is all that stand of it now aside the stuff at the museume, and a few signals its the only thing physical left of the old shops and specifications on how the shops were outfited or the size make and amount of machinery is hard to come by to find out, but seems every other shop when expanded was wrote about in the trade magazines but garrett, and local lore says it was the last roundhouse to have a steam engine sitting in it before all the t3s were taken away and cut up, the b and o did offer one to the town but for scrap value, they did not just donate it and they were in such bad financial times that they needed every dime they could get which is unforunate as non of the last big engines survived but one mikado I belive and P7 number 1 the George Washington, and that was just cuz they were donated by the scrap yard owner to the museume, and that also closed till c and o decided to re open the museume after taking over and buying up the cash starved b and o.

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I'll have to double-check, but I believe 4449 once ran from Jacksonville to New Orleans during the Freedom Train tour. #4449 is larger than 614.

#4449 led the Freedom Train throughout Florida in November and December 1976. www.freedomtrain.org/american-freedom-train-timeline-printable.htm

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Rental units were common on all of the Class Ones from the 1990s through the early 2000s. In addition, pool power from all the Class Ones are common on both CSX and Norfolk Southern in our area even today.

If you're looking for an overall daily total, I'm not really sure. On a typical weekday, you can see 426 NS trains through Hamilton between 8:00 AM and 11:00 AM. Then, there is a lull through the afternoon, and traffic picks up again after 4:00 PM.

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