In Jan. 1939, 6229 the 'Duchess of Hamilton' swapped identities with#6220 'Coronation' and was shipped to America with a brand new train, to take part in the New York World's Fair. It landed in Baltimore and then took part in a 3,121 mile publicity tour to New York arriving on the 14th April. The locomotive of the English Train, The Coronation Scot, a Pacific engine of London, Midland & Scottish Railroad, is on the track from the L.I.R.R. (Sept. 8, 1940). This shot is from an nriginal 35mm Kodachome slide taken in 1940, the slide sold for $100.00 to a European buyer in April 2013. |