Can anyone identify this steam locomotive?

[Doublestack]

I know there isn't a lot to work with, but someone might know the history of the photo shoot.  Any help would be appreciated.    http://theselvedgeyard.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/johnny-cash-train-pose.jpg

 

[D.Carleton]

Doublestack

I know there isn't a lot to work with, but someone might know the history of the photo shoot.  Any help would be appreciated.    http://theselvedgeyard.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/johnny-cash-train-pose.jpg

 

Add her to the list of steamers that deserve to run again: http://www.ncstl.com/576/576today.htm

[wanswheel]

Photographer was Michael Rougier of Life Magazine.  

http://books.google.com/books?id=1VAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA44&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=true

[KCSfan]

I think the engine is a NC&StL Dixie type 4-8-4. Probably the 2015 which has been preserved.

Mark

[dknelson]

But the engine is in steam, or appears to be.  My guess is one of the Reading 4-8-4s both of which were still in steam at the time of the photos, if memory serves.

Dave Nelson

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dknelson

But the engine is in steam, or appears to be.  My guess is one of the Reading 4-8-4s both of which were still in steam at the time of the photos, if memory serves.

Dave Nelson

 

A smoke bomb would create that image. Look again, do you see steam from the cylinders? I think it was a photo stunt on a dead engine.

[Overmod]

Guys, it's Dixie 576, preserved in Nashville (see the end of the display rails in the picture?) just as Mr. Carleton said at the outset.  Fog machine or something like it for the smoke.

[Deggesty]

It's a Stripe! (A Dixie with a narrow yellow stripe instead of the wide yellow band which gave that class the name of "Yellow Jacket).

[Doublestack]

Thanks very much for the help guys.  Makes sense that it would be a loco in Nashville.

[tomikawaTT]

Since I left Nashville (10 years ago) 576 has acquired a shelter modeled on the design of the Nashville Union Station train shed (which burned before I left.)

So, when you go looking around the satellite view of the north end of Centennial Park, all you see is a white rectangle.

Bummer!

Chuck (Former Nashvillian, or is that Nashvillain?)

[Deggesty]

Chuck, it depends upon how you behaved.