Western Railroad Discussion > What a Beauty at Kansas City Union Station (Santa Fe 5704)

Today the restored Santa Fe SD45-2 in Bicentinnel paint was brought out of storage at Argentine to be put on Display at KCUS. Special thanks To Stephen Priest of Class one Works and Mid America Car for countless hours they all put into getting this engine on the road and ready this event and will soon go to it's new home at the Southern California Railway Museum in Perris CA. The engine will be on dispaly at the station from the 14th to the 19th of this month to the public. Hope you all enjoy. 
Marc L

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Oh yeah!

#5704 looks super awesome.  Forty-six years really passed fasst.
Thanks for your excellent photo posting.
ALLEN

NIICE..!!

Posted from Android

Is that ever a dream come true!

There's a tear of joy in my eye! The 5704 is the only one of the SFe Bicentennials I ever caught on 35mm slide film (5703 on Instamatic & the 5700? on a long lost color print). 
An old friend has come back to visit...

Lance/199

Super nice!

A true time machine. Better than a DeLorean. LOL!

Fantastic!

Jim Baker
Riverside, CA

Simply beautiful!

I hope the Trainorders faithfull won't let us down and will keep the updates coming from now until she reaches her future home in Southern Cal.   

Thanks for sharing this post to get everyone's pulse raised and the run of TO postings started.   

After it arrives at SCRM, we will begin work toward making it operational. That effort will be posted on TO's for everyone to follow. Initially we will be investigating what the issues are and deciding how we will go forward with the project. After that the reporting will get into details of each step that we take. Our goal will be to return it to a fully operational condition by 2026 for the 250 US anniversary. We also know it will be a lot of work in a short time frame. Keep tuned.

Thank you for posting. Too bad she won't lead. She's looking beautiful! 

Mike ONeill
Parker, CO

Lance at least your instamatic shot of 5703 is probably half way decent. I shot it at Corwith in 1976, right near the end of the roll of film. Somehow I forgot to rewind, popped the back and realized I didnt rewind. The third shot from the end was the best of my lot. Yellow flare all the way around, but at least I got something. It could have been worse, one of the BN Bicentennials was also on that roll, it survived intact.

Posted from iPhone

Nice!

RC Lundgren
Elgin, TX

My favorite of the bicentennial paintschemes, leave it to Santa Fe to actually have five of them!  Overwhelmed that one of them got saved!!

Go red, white & blue!

dan 

Those of you who want a detailed profile  of the anticipated activities to return the 5704 to operational status check out D-Althaus and has comments back on the Nostalgia July 7 to get an idea what needs to happen. Dave, Carl, Richard and John are  experts in repairing and restoring EMD locomotives---budgets allowing!



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/14/22 11:30 by TomPlatten.

biff Wrote:
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> Lance at least your instamatic shot of 5703 is
> probably half way decent. I shot it at Corwith in
> 1976, right near the end of the roll of film.
> Somehow I forgot to rewind, popped the back and
> realized I didnt rewind. The third shot from the
> end was the best of my lot. Yellow flare all the
> way around, but at least I got something. It could
> have been worse, one of the BN Bicentennials was
> also on that roll, it survived intact.
>
> Posted from iPhone

That sucks,socks, like that are common, still shoot myself in the foot on not switching film while riding 14 over Custa in 99!

Posted from Android

Looking good; great light.  Can't wait to see it when it gets to Perris.
GK

Here's a photo I took this afternoon, photos don't do her justice.  Stephen Priest and the coalition of people and companies he assembled hit it out of the park!

Bruce In KC

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