This is still mesquite and prairie grass in August, 1977, as Missouri Pacific 3186 heads to Fort Worth with another load of autos from the General Motors plant in Grand Prairie. The second unit, 3140, proudly wears on its flanks the road’s handsome “Screaming Eagle” logo, created in 1964 to distinguish turbocharged power, but the lead unit got a smaller version under the cab window with the eagle superimposed over the road’s famous red buzzsaw emblem. The turbocharged SD40-2’s, 1975 and 1974 products of EMD, are running on Texas & Pacific track laid down a little over one hundred years ago, in 1876.
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just heritage schemes, not just commemorative schemes - this album is devoted to some of the world's most interesting paint schemes, past or present.
