Phantom-hood....
Your right, it belonged to the B&O museum.
Practically all the time it was at TVRM, there were many other projects that were going on...the Army Geeps, the #610, #4601 & a half-dozen others.
Plus, it's a given that the "EMD vs GE" debate put an expensive u-boat endeavor on the side track.
I learned it was fully operative & FRA certified upon arrival at Chattanooga from the Dinner Train Engineer at the SARM.
It was also the last operative U25B in the CSX fleet at the time.
But I would drive to the TVRM on Sundays when the place was closed & my dog & me would sit in the locomotive with my scanner & "play choo-choo."
They took the conductors seat out to make more room for visitors, so it wasn't really fair for my dog.
At times I wish I had took a can of wax & done the whole locomotive, it does look like the yellow nose was waxed but I hold myself responsible as someone who could have made the dude a working model, usable on trips to Trion....especially after it seemingly disappeared.
I figured when the B&O Museum got it back that since the finish had deteriorated over the years they would repaint it to a B&O Capital paint scheme, then I found out they didn't have it, so scrapper or industrial seamed the only end for it.
But its owned by a private citizen under the reporting marks of Vintage Locomotives, Inc(VLIX), as are most all the locomotives at SARM.
It was located right at the K-25 building, but I saw a picture of it the other day so it was moved where you could photograph it....
They're doing demolition of K-25, hauling it away in covered containers, on spine-cars & 89' flats painted green, so the motive power stays busy by day & a contractor shunts cars around & leave them at Blair for interchange to the NS.
Blair to Wheat is about 7 miles, a short ride for a dinner train, I wished they would move over to Cookeville, we have a beautiful line to ride at least as far as Carthage, from Monterey, TN.
The latest L&N scheme in Trainz is the plain grey carbody with yellow alpha-numeric fonts, no pin-stripe. Even with a full yellow nose it looks like crap next to the pin-stripped styling...when it gets a bit weathered you can't even read the number on the cab, let alone the hood-side, but some folks saw only that & there may be someone that likes it...somewhere.
I'm staying out of the content creation discussions until I see what I want is released.
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