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SR E-8A 6902
Title:  SR E-8A 6902
Description:  SR E-8A 6902 leads the Southern Crescent out of Alexandria Union Station
Photo Date:  7/22/1978  Upload Date: 2/22/2016 7:46:26 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6902(E8A)
Views:  204   Comments: 0
SR E-8A 6902
Title:  SR E-8A 6902
Description:  SR E-8A 6902 leads the Southern Crescent out of Alexandria Union Station
Photo Date:  7/22/1978  Upload Date: 2/22/2016 7:47:46 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6902(E8A)
Views:  221   Comments: 0
SR E-8A 6902 leads the Southern Crescent past SR 610
Title:  SR E-8A 6902 leads the Southern Crescent past SR 610
Description:  SR E-8A 6902 leads the Southern Crescent past SR 610
Photo Date:  7/22/1978  Upload Date: 2/22/2016 7:50:25 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6902(E8A) SOU 610(2-10-4)
Views:  372   Comments: 0
SR E-8A 6902 leads the Southern Crescent past SR 610
Title:  SR E-8A 6902 leads the Southern Crescent past SR 610
Description:  SR E-8A 6902 leads the Southern Crescent past SR 610
Photo Date:  7/22/1978  Upload Date: 2/22/2016 7:51:26 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6902(E8A) SOU 610(2-10-4)
Views:  302   Comments: 0
Southern Crescent, southbound, July, 1978
Title:  Southern Crescent, southbound, July, 1978
Description:  I think it was late and was moving fast this day. It was due at 5:22 p.m. and there isn't much light left.
Photo Date:  12/31/2005  Upload Date: 1/3/2006 2:12:09 PM
Location:  Purvis, MS
Author:  John Sita
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6902(E8A)
Views:  405   Comments: 1
SR 6903
Title:  SR 6903
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/13/1973  Upload Date: 2/4/2012 6:08:03 PM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  426   Comments: 2
SOU 6903 Button Gwinnett of Georgia
Title:  SOU 6903 Button Gwinnett of Georgia
Description:  In 1976, the Southern paid tribute to the American Bicentennial with banners for the signers of the Declaration of Independence from the Southern's territory.
Photo Date:  5/1/1976  Upload Date: 1/24/2006 7:14:39 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Frank Greene
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  702   Comments: 0
SOU 6904
Title:  SOU 6904
Description:  SR power awaits Crescent assignments.
Photo Date:  4/1/1977  Upload Date: 4/23/2020 10:38:04 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A) SOU 6903(E8A) WATC 62(RS1)
Views:  319   Comments: 1
SOU 6904
Title:  SOU 6904
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/1/1977  Upload Date: 4/23/2020 10:38:06 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A) SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  355   Comments: 2
SOU 6903
Title:  SOU 6903
Description:  Four miles after leaving New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, Southern passenger trains reached home rails at East City Junction. Here, NOUPT's Eastern Connection connected with a Southern subsidiary, the New Orleans Terminal Co. In this view, the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT in on the NOTCO, passing under the southbound home signal protecting East City Junction. The train has E8A's 6903, 6901, 6912 and 6907 with eight cars: baggage-dormitory 706; coaches 834, 833 and Amtrak 5667; 10-6 sleepers 2008 PACOLET RIVER and Amtrak 2603 PACIFIC BEND, diner 3869, and dome coach 1613.
Photo Date:  4/8/1977  Upload Date: 6/4/2009 11:52:46 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  1871   Comments: 0
Southern Railway E-8A 6903
Title:  Southern Railway E-8A 6903
Description:  Southern Railway E-8A 6903 in a quartet of E-8's ready to lead the Southern Crescent at Washington Union Station.
Photo Date:  4/1/1978  Upload Date: 1/5/2016 5:07:50 PM
Location:  Washington Union Sta, DC
Author:  Andrew J. Erlichman
Categories:  Roster,Station
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  337   Comments: 0
Train #2 Southern Crescent at speed
Title:  Train #2 Southern Crescent at speed
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1978  Upload Date: 1/23/2006 6:43:48 PM
Location:  Duluth, GA
Author:  Frank Greene
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  1963   Comments: 1
Southern E8A 6903
Title:  Southern E8A 6903
Description:  Taken circa 1980.
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 11/20/2022 3:16:17 PM
Location:  Elizabethport, NJ
Author:  Tom Gallo
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  140   Comments: 0
SOU 6903
Title:  SOU 6903
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/10/1980  Upload Date: 5/23/2015 5:52:13 PM
Location:  Elizabethport Yard, NJ
Author:  andrew koenigsberg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  280   Comments: 0
SOU 6903
Title:  SOU 6903
Description:  NJ Transit locomotive 4333 in it's original Southern paint to star in the movie "Angel Heart".
Photo Date:  9/6/1985  Upload Date: 1/27/2008 10:52:48 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tony Krslovic
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  674   Comments: 1
SOU 6903x Looking real good
Title:  SOU 6903x Looking real good
Description:  Southern E-8 visiting Hoboken to be part of a Robert Denero movie. The coach behind it recieved a Southern sticker by the vestibule.
Photo Date:  4/1/2005  Upload Date: 5/29/2005 9:25:51 PM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tony Krslovic
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  797   Comments: 1
Southern Crescent, April, 1978
Title:  Southern Crescent, April, 1978
Description:  Look how clean those E-8s were - Southern was trying to discontinue the train at the time, too.
Photo Date:  12/31/2005  Upload Date: 1/1/2006 12:28:36 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  John Sita
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  878   Comments: 0
Southern Crescent, southbound, April, 1978
Title:  Southern Crescent, southbound, April, 1978
Description:  It was really flying low - at least 80 mph.
Photo Date:  12/31/2005  Upload Date: 1/1/2006 12:33:10 AM
Location:  Purvis, MS
Author:  John Sita
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  751   Comments: 1
SOU 6904
Title:  SOU 6904
Description:  SOU 6904 is seen at a station stop
Photo Date:  12/28/1972  Upload Date: 12/12/2020 7:01:20 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  John Beach
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  267   Comments: 0
SOU 6904
Title:  SOU 6904
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/11/1973  Upload Date: 5/10/2009 10:33:20 PM
Location:  Meridian, MS
Author:  Jack Smith
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  689   Comments: 1
SOU 6904 (RF)
Title:  SOU 6904 (RF)
Description:  The Crescent Limited makes a station stop at Alexandria.
Photo Date:  10/29/1975  Upload Date: 7/7/2007 5:30:34 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  594   Comments: 2
Southern Railway Train No. 2
Title:  Southern Railway Train No. 2
Description:  The second floor of the Slidell depot provided this vantage point as the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT rolled into town, about one hour into its journey from New Orleans to New York. (year OK, date approximate)
Photo Date:  1/1/1976  Upload Date: 5/19/2009 5:23:51 PM
Location:  Slidell, LA
Author:  James H. Slezer, Jr.
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  1586   Comments: 1
Train #2 Southern Crescent
Title:  Train #2 Southern Crescent
Description:  During the Summer of 1976, the Southern Crescent frequently ran in two sections between Atlanta and Washington, D. C. Here we see #2 approaching Peachtree Station from New Orleans with the section that will become 2nd #2. The red banners are Southern's Bicentennial tribute.
Photo Date:  7/1/1976  Upload Date: 1/23/2006 6:43:50 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Frank Greene
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  1329   Comments: 1
Southern 6916 AND 6904
Title:  Southern 6916 AND 6904
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/1/1977  Upload Date: 2/17/2023 9:22:33 AM
Location:  Arlington, VA
Author:  Dick Leonhardt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6916(E8A) SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  162   Comments: 0
Southern 6904
Title:  Southern 6904
Description:  EMD E8s on the Southern Crescent at Birmingham, AL, in February 1978
Photo Date:  2/27/1978  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 11:00:28 AM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  284   Comments: 0
Southern Railway Train No. 2
Title:  Southern Railway Train No. 2
Description:  Just after sunup, Southern Railway Train No. 2 – the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT – was preparing to leave New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal behind E8A 6904 and three other units. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  4/1/1978  Upload Date: 9/24/2021 11:22:25 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  304   Comments: 1
Train #1 Southern Crescent
Title:  Train #1 Southern Crescent
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/1/1978  Upload Date: 1/23/2006 6:43:48 PM
Location:  Buford, GA
Author:  Frank Greene
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  1658   Comments: 2
SR Tr 1 at Terminal Station
Title:  SR Tr 1 at Terminal Station
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/24/1978  Upload Date: 7/23/2010 12:50:14 AM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  James Gillin
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  558   Comments: 1
Northbound Southen Railway Crescent Arrives in Alexandria
Title:  Northbound Southen Railway Crescent Arrives in Alexandria
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/11/1978  Upload Date: 4/5/2012 10:31:43 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Frank A. Phillips Jr.
Categories:  Roster,Model,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  368   Comments: 0
SOU 6904
Title:  SOU 6904
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/28/1978  Upload Date: 5/3/2007 4:03:03 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  415   Comments: 1
SOU 6904
Title:  SOU 6904
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/28/1978  Upload Date: 5/3/2007 4:03:04 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  412   Comments: 0
Southern Railway (SOU) EMD E8A No. 6904
Title:  Southern Railway (SOU) EMD E8A No. 6904
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/13/1980  Upload Date: 1/31/2009 5:39:40 PM
Location:  Elizabethport, NJ
Author: 
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  568   Comments: 1
SOU 6904
Title:  SOU 6904
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/1987  Upload Date: 5/28/2004 4:07:30 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Uncle Joe Oates
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  1000   Comments: 1
SR 6905
Title:  SR 6905
Description:  (Date approximate)
Photo Date:  7/7/1973  Upload Date: 1/9/2012 12:10:20 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:  776   Comments: 3
Southern 6905
Title:  Southern 6905
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/7/1973  Upload Date: 4/21/2020 12:44:51 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:  383   Comments: 1
SR 6905
Title:  SR 6905
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/7/1973  Upload Date: 7/1/2013 10:34:42 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:  673   Comments: 5
Southern Railway Train No. 2
Title:  Southern Railway Train No. 2
Description:  Southern Railway train No. 2 – the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT – was at the station in Slidell, Louisiana with E8A 6905, FP7A’s 6147, 6145 and 6148, and nine cars: baggage-dormitory 710, coaches 843, 828 and SCL 5467, diner 3306, 10-6 sleeping cars 2012 SALUDA RIVER, 3401 FRENCH BROAD RIVER and un-named Amtrak 2695; and dome parlor 1602. During 1974 FP7’s were often used on Nos. 1 and 2, but not this many!
Photo Date:  4/26/1974  Upload Date: 4/30/2021 5:34:58 PM
Location:  Slidell, LA
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. image
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:  460   Comments: 0
SOU 6905
Title:  SOU 6905
Description:  A colorful assortment of power sits at the Ivy City Engine Terminal in Washington DC on a September day in 1975. Front and center is Southern Railway E8A 6905 (ex-SOU 2928, built 9/51), still in passenger service for the Southern Railway (which did not initially join the Amtrak system when it was formed in 1971). Hiding behind the E-unit is Baltimore & Ohio 6606, a steam-generator equipped GP9 used on Washington to Baltimore commuter trains. And behind that is an assortment of Amtrak SDP40F diesels (582 and, behind that, 609, with others not visible).
Photo Date:  9/1/1975  Upload Date: 2/3/2013 9:49:08 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Douglas G. Walker
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A) BO 6606(GP9) AMTK 609(SDP40F)
Views:  889   Comments: 0
SOU 6905 Thomas Nelson, Jr. of Virginia
Title:  SOU 6905 Thomas Nelson, Jr. of Virginia
Description:  In 1976, the Southern paid tribute to the American Bicentennial with banners for the signers of the Declaration of Independence from the Southern's territory.
Photo Date:  5/1/1976  Upload Date: 1/24/2006 7:14:39 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Frank Greene
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:  848   Comments: 0
Southern Railway Train No. 2
Title:  Southern Railway Train No. 2
Description:  Southern Railway Train No. 2 – the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT – was heading into the morning sun as it made its way out of New Orleans at the Canal Boulevard Underpass. The 12-car train consisted of E8A units 6905, 6902 and 6914, baggage-dormitory car 711, coaches 840, 844, 835, 834 and 3789, 10-roomette/6-double-bedroom sleeping cars 2016 ST. JOHNS RIVER and 2006 OCMULGEE RIVER, diner 3311, dome coach 1613, coach 837 and 11-bedroom sleeper 2301 ROYAL COURT.
Photo Date:  6/3/1977  Upload Date: 10/18/2021 9:38:01 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:  581   Comments: 0
Southern E8 and SCL GP40-2
Title:  Southern E8 and SCL GP40-2
Description:  While the northbound Southern Crescent waits at the former sight of Birmingham Terminal Station a few SCL units pass on the way to Atlanta.
Photo Date:  9/10/1978  Upload Date: 11/2/2008 3:36:46 PM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Gary Morris
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A) SCL 1646(GP40-2)
Views:  942   Comments: 4
Southern Crescent power at Ivy City
Title:  Southern Crescent power at Ivy City
Description:  Southern Railway E8A's lay over during the day at the Ivy City engine terminal
Photo Date:  10/22/1978  Upload Date: 1/11/2010 6:08:15 PM
Location:  Washington, DC
Author:  Bill Wilcox
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6907(E8A) SOU 6905(E8A) SOU 6912(E8A) SOU 6914(E8A)
Views:  1337   Comments: 2
NB CRESCENT
Title:  NB CRESCENT
Description:  Just 10 days after Amtrak took over operation of the CRESCENT, train 20 was making its station stop at Meridian. The trains cosisted of E8A's 6909, 6913 and 6905 and nine cars: baggage-dormitory car 1406, coaches 817, 5285 and 844, coach-lounge 3850, diner 8382, and 10-6 sleepers 2002 DAN RIVER, 2860 TYE RIVER and 2862 FRENCH BROAD RIVER. Except for the Amtrak baggage-dormitory car and the ex-Southern coach-lounge, the train looks much as it did when it was the SOUTHERN CRESCENT. Cars 5285, 3850, 8382, 2860 and 2862 were lettered SOUTHERN but wore Amtrak numbers, while car 817, 844 and 2002 still had their Southern lettering and numbers.
Photo Date:  2/10/1979  Upload Date: 10/21/2007 3:39:34 PM
Location:  Meridian, MS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A) SOU 6913(E8A) SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:  2138   Comments: 4
SOU E8A 6905
Title:  SOU E8A 6905
Description:  Southern Railway E8A 6905 was being watered on the northbound CRESCENT at Meridian, Mississippi while on a 6-month lease to Amtrak. The locomotive was built in September 1951 as the 2928, and it was modified with dynamic brakes and roof-mounted air tanks in 1958. It was renumbered 6905 in 1972, was leased to Amtrak on 1 February 1979, and was shipped to Precision National Corp. on 3 November 1979.
Photo Date:  2/10/1979  Upload Date: 10/23/2017 4:52:12 PM
Location:  Meridian, MS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:  854   Comments: 1
Amtrak Crescent, southbound, April, 1979
Title:  Amtrak Crescent, southbound, April, 1979
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2005  Upload Date: 1/4/2006 10:05:54 AM
Location:  Purvis, MS
Author:  John Sita
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:  652   Comments: 0
Southern Crescent, northbound, July, 1978 [2]
Title:  Southern Crescent, northbound, July, 1978 [2]
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2005  Upload Date: 1/3/2006 2:09:16 PM
Location:  Hattiesburg, MS
Author:  John Sita
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6910(E8A) SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:  1353   Comments: 0
Southern E8s 6906 and 6909
Title:  Southern E8s 6906 and 6909
Description:  The tracks in the foreground are the Northeast Corridor tracks.
Photo Date:  1/11/1969  Upload Date: 5/3/2007 4:03:13 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6906(E8A) SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  1111   Comments: 1
SOU 6906
Title:  SOU 6906
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/1969  Upload Date: 5/3/2007 4:03:09 PM
Location:  Washington, DC
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6906(E8A)
Views:  676   Comments: 1
SOU 6913
Title:  SOU 6913
Description:  7:30 P.M. 15 car Kentucky Derby Special passes westbound.
Photo Date:  5/4/1972  Upload Date: 10/3/2020 12:01:01 PM
Location:  Asheville, NC
Author:  Dennis Mize
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6913(E8A) SOU 6906(E8A) SOU 6910(E8A) SOU 6915(E8A)
Views:  338   Comments: 1
SOU 6915
Title:  SOU 6915
Description:  7:30 P.M. 15 car Kentucky Derby Special passes westbound.
Photo Date:  5/4/1972  Upload Date: 10/3/2020 12:01:55 PM
Location:  Asheville, NC
Author:  Dennis Mize
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6915(E8A) SOU 6910(E8A) SOU 6906(E8A) SOU 6913(E8A)
Views:  349   Comments: 0


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