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Bingo.
This train is the eastbound 304, the Orleanean, due in Beaumont at 11.25 am.
Other photos show the train, during the mid-sixties, as having a geep for power. The consist is plausible. In 1960 the train was listed as having a cafe-coach.
I’m not that familiar with Beaumont, except to note that the MoPac kind of went around the downtown area, while the SP ran arrow-straight through the center of town as if it owned the place. After “consolidation”, there was a tiny concrete building meant to be a passenger station for the MP and UP to share. I did see that station in the last stages of vandalism, but that’s after the period of this photo. The street running made me suspect Beaumont, but I can’t be any more specific as to location.
Another interesting item is the baggage car, which still has its skirting around the end sill steps, but does not seem to have a white stripe.
Ron Merrick
