Illinois Railroad Museum restoring Alco FA L&N #314

jayrod · **Posted:** Thu Oct 12, 2017 12:00 am

I noticed in both images that the consist is FA2/RS3/FB2/RS3 with another FA2 trailing in the #359 image. Was this something normal on the L&N or just coincidence?

PMC · **Joined:** Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:55 pm **Posts:** 310

Les Beckman wrote:

PMC -

The light gray/yellow nose L&N scheme wasn't too bad, but can't hold a candle to the original dark blue (black?) body with crème colored stripes trimmed in red. Can't find a photo of #314 in that scheme, but here is number 359 wearing it:

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/397065/

The L&N red herald on the nose is the clincher!

Les

I agree that is the best scheme Les. There is also a more basic black/ dark blue with a round red emblem on the nose:

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/617262/

Hopefully IRM has a photo of #314 as delivered, but I'm sure it isn't the grey and yellow.

Illinois Railroad Museum restoring Alco FA L&N #314

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