Pictured is a Louisiana Midland freight train as it travels between Rhinehart and Vidalia, Louisiana. Heading up the train is former GM&O RS-1 locomotive #1120 pulling a rather rag-tag fleet of cars. The first boxcar is lettered for the Chesapeake & Ohio, followed by a Penn Central gondola and two more LOAM boxcars. The C&O car is rather curious as the reporting mark and number look to be hand lettered with spray paint, and it has no other data on it.

I’ll speculate that the train is headed westbound (last week we saw the unit as it traveled short hood forward while heading east). Photographer Dan Watson captured this photo back in 1975. If he happens to see this posting, perhaps he can shed more light on it.

This image was scanned from a print in the late Ron Findley’s collection. Tony Howe provided the photographer’s identity and the location of the train.