December 2004 – Test Run!
On the road, SP-745 pounding the high iron, with the Ray Deplechain, caboose. Engineer Bill Johnson, Fireman David Bartee were assisted by LASTA hoggers in training – Bill Morris and Keith Bonnette. Aboard the caboose were a highly motivated and trained crew of LASTA volunteers, who became the first riders behind 745 in fifty years.
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- 745 leaving the yard
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- 745 at the KCS Yard – New Orleans
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- Mounting Up!
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- Starting Across the Bonne Carre Spillway
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- 745 crossing the trestles of the Bonne Carre
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- Late Afternoon
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- Homeward bound