TheQuietStormKing
Fond du Lac Home for the Elderly
A brief sojourn to February 2020 finds WC 1561 on Hospice care in the Shops roundhouse. She’s likely turned her last revenue wheel at this point, for the CN anyways. 1561 came in to being exactly 52 years prior in February of 1968 for the Kentucky & Indiana Terminal. She even retained a touch of the KIT dark blue on the window sills as well as Southern RR stencils inside the carbody doors. My time running her was relatively short, a couple of years, but she was definitely among my favorite locomotives over operated. A lightning quick throttle, double clasp brakes and a bark that would wake up the whole neighborhood. She had a propensity for generating gagging clouds of blue smoke when left in idle for long periods, open up the throttle and you could fumigate the whole neighborhood!
Fond du Lac Home for the Elderly
A brief sojourn to February 2020 finds WC 1561 on Hospice care in the Shops roundhouse. She’s likely turned her last revenue wheel at this point, for the CN anyways. 1561 came in to being exactly 52 years prior in February of 1968 for the Kentucky & Indiana Terminal. She even retained a touch of the KIT dark blue on the window sills as well as Southern RR stencils inside the carbody doors. My time running her was relatively short, a couple of years, but she was definitely among my favorite locomotives over operated. A lightning quick throttle, double clasp brakes and a bark that would wake up the whole neighborhood. She had a propensity for generating gagging clouds of blue smoke when left in idle for long periods, open up the throttle and you could fumigate the whole neighborhood!