An early Trailer-On-Flat-Car express mail train rolls through St. Petersburg, VA with elephant-style E-units in the lead.
An early Trailer-On-Flat-Car express mail train rolls through St. Petersburg, VA with elephant-style E-units in the lead.
A mix of SAL power at Hamlet, NC, including what looks like a Baldwin RS12 moving a cut of TOFC cars. Interesting little fact, the SAL passenger scheme was not white, as it often appears in color photos, but actually a very, very faint mint green with red stripes.
Southern's Carolina Special is surrounded by clouds of brake smoke as it descends towards Old Fort, Nc in August of '61
A rare machine leads this Goldsboro-bound freight through Selma, North Carolina. Lettered for Southern subsidiary Carolina & Northwestern, the #11 is the only Alco RS-11 on the entire Southern Railway system.
A Southern freight, led by an RS-3 lettered and numbered for the Carolina & Northwestern, waits for the Atlantic Coast Line Everglades to clear the diamond at Selma depot.
A Southern high-nose GP30 stops at Old Fort with the Asheville Special in August of '73. The train consists of just one standard coach and a dome car. Despite Amtrak having been in existence for the past two years, Southern opted to hold onto their passenger operations until 1979.
Northbound Baldwin AS616s belonging to the original Norfolk Southern. Yes, before N&W and Southern merged, there was a prior Norfolk Southern from 1881-1974, explaining why Norfolk Southern has a Norfolk Southern heritage unit
Boxy Norfolk Southern Baldwin AS616s headed to Raleigh in the summer of 1960. Check out all the Divco milk trucks to the bottom left and what looks like a pair of '57 Fords parked on both sides of the road.
A Norfolk Southern hostler uses the air compressor aboard AS616 #1507 to power the turntable at Raleigh
Back-to-back GE 45-ton end-cab switchers belonging to Norfolk Southern Railway head to New Bern
Clinchfield EMDs blast exhaust skyward after exiting the second tunnel on The Loops near Altapass, NC
A Clinchfield U-boat leads a coal train through the valley towards Erwin, TN
Clinchield #800 leads a conglomerate of EMD motive power through Johnson City on its way to Elkhorn, TN. #800 is the EMD F7 that CSX has restored and used for events like the Santa Train.
In reply to NickD :
I always like the angled corners/number plates on RS-11's. It added a bit of style to otherwise industrial looking locos.
In reply to Pete Gossett (Forum Supporter) :
They also had the notched hood ends on the later RS-series machines, like this RS-27 or a low-nose RS-11, but the numberboards were up on the cab. The Century series dumped the notches on the short hood, but kept them on the long hood.
Still lettered for Virginian, but technically belonging to Norfolk & Western, GE EL-C electric #236 makes the final electrified revenue run to Roanoke on the old Virginian right of way before N&W de-electrified the system.
Night sets on the #236, a few hours after completing that final run on June 29th, 1962. The EL-Cs would get a second lease on life when they were sold to the New Haven at a bargain price, then go on to wear Penn Central paint, and after that, Conrail blue.
One of the big ex-Virginian EL-2B electrics at N&W's Roanoke yard, after being towed there for final disposition.
Happier days on the Virginian, an EL-2B and an EL-C meet at Princeton, Va
Fairbanks-Morse Train Masters belonging to the Virginian cross the Kanawha River on the Deepwater Bridge. Virginian was unique in that when it dieselized, it used F-M diesels exclusively, with 40 H-16-44s and 25 H-24-66 Train Masters.
A Virginian H-16-44 meets a pair of New York Central switchers at Alloy, WV.
An elderly N&W Pacific with an auxiliary tender tows a baggage car, a combine and a passenger car through Tazewell, VA on May 10th, 1958
A USRA Heavy Mikado belonging to the Southern leads a Birmingham-bound freight east of Meridian, Mississippi
Southern F-Units leave Meridian with the Southern's sole Alco DL-110 A-B set dead in tow, after it suffered a mechanical failure while in New Orleans passenger service in August of 1952.
According to photographer J. Parker Lamb's notes, Alco DL-108 #6401, belonging to Southern subsidiary Cincinatti, New Orleans & Texas Pacific, suffered a mechanical failure that resulted in veteran EMD FT #4126 being brought in to assist. After the photo was taken, control incompatabilities between the two units were found, and yet another EMD product was brought in to replace #4126.
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