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| Title: |
SOU 6906 |
| Description: |
4 unit power off Kentucky Derby Special eastbound. |
| Photo Date: |
5/7/1972 Upload Date: 10/14/2020 8:54:03 PM |
| Location: |
Salisbury, NC |
| Author: |
Dennis Mize |
| Categories: |
Roster,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6906(E8A) |
| Views: |
141 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6913 |
| Description: |
Eastbound 15 car Kentucky Derby Special east of Marshall, N.C. 8:30 A.M. |
| Photo Date: |
5/7/1972 Upload Date: 10/3/2020 12:31:40 PM |
| Location: |
Marshall, NC |
| Author: |
Dennis Mize |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6913(E8A) SOU 6906(E8A) SOU 6910(E8A) SOU 6915(E8A) |
| Views: |
427 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6913 |
| Description: |
8:45 A.M. 15 car Kentucky Derby Special eastbound arrives. |
| Photo Date: |
5/7/1972 Upload Date: 10/3/2020 12:12:40 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 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6913 |
| Description: |
10:20 A.M. eastbound Kentucky Derby Special descends the loops with 16 cars following the Asheville Special. |
| Photo Date: |
5/7/1972 Upload Date: 10/7/2020 4:47:29 PM |
| Location: |
Old Fort, NC |
| Author: |
Dennis Mize |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6913(E8A) SOU 6906(E8A) SOU 6910(E8A) SOU 6915(E8A) |
| Views: |
282 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6913 |
| Description: |
12:05 P.M. eastbound Kentucky Derby Special passes depot with 16 cars following the Asheville Special. |
| Photo Date: |
5/7/1972 Upload Date: 10/7/2020 4:50:42 PM |
| Location: |
Conover, NC |
| Author: |
Dennis Mize |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6913(E8A) SOU 6906(E8A) SOU 6910(E8A) SOU 6915(E8A) |
| Views: |
329 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6913 |
| Description: |
1:25 P.M. Eastbound 16 car Kentucky Derby Special is pulled back into station. |
| Photo Date: |
5/7/1972 Upload Date: 10/14/2020 8:49:08 PM |
| Location: |
Salisbury, NC |
| Author: |
Dennis Mize |
| Categories: |
Roster,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6913(E8A) SOU 6906(E8A) SOU 6910(E8A) SOU 6915(E8A) |
| Views: |
302 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6913 |
| Description: |
Eastbound 15 car Kentucky Derby Special east of Marshall, N.C. |
| Photo Date: |
5/7/1972 Upload Date: 10/3/2020 12:30:28 PM |
| Location: |
Marshall, NC |
| Author: |
Dennis Mize |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6913(E8A) SOU 6906(E8A) SOU 6910(E8A) SOU 6915(E8A) |
| Views: |
341 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6913 |
| Description: |
10:20 A.M. eastbound Kentucky Derby Special descends the loops with 16 cars following the Asheville Special. |
| Photo Date: |
5/7/1972 Upload Date: 10/7/2020 4:48:12 PM |
| Location: |
Old Fort, NC |
| Author: |
Dennis Mize |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6913(E8A) SOU 6906(E8A) SOU 6910(E8A) SOU 6915(E8A) |
| Views: |
282 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6913 |
| Description: |
10:25 A.M.eastbound Kentucky Derby Special with 16 cars following the Asheville Special. |
| Photo Date: |
5/7/1972 Upload Date: 10/7/2020 4:48:45 PM |
| Location: |
Old Fort, NC |
| Author: |
Dennis Mize |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6913(E8A) SOU 6906(E8A) SOU 6910(E8A) SOU 6915(E8A) |
| Views: |
345 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6906 Richard Henry Lee 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 7:14:40 PM |
| Location: |
Atlanta, GA |
| Author: |
Frank Greene |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SOU 6906(E8A) |
| Views: |
591 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern Railway No. 2 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway E8A 6906 was leading the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT across Bayou Liberty Road in Slidell, Louisiana as the train approached the Slidell station. (approximate date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
3/1/1977 Upload Date: 2/11/2020 8:44:13 PM |
| Location: |
Slidell, LA |
| Author: |
JAMES H. SELZER, JR. photo |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6906(E8A) |
| Views: |
577 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern Crescent |
| Description: |
About eight minutes after its 7:00 A.M. departure from New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT approaches Carrollton Junction, where the NOUPT Eastern and Western Connections diverge. The paved area between the tracks had been one of the two platforms for Carrollton Avenue Station. (date approximate) |
| Photo Date: |
3/1/1978 Upload Date: 9/7/2010 3:49:27 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver, Jr. |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6906(E8A) |
| Views: |
985 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6907 and SCL 550 & 579 Waiting for Those Evening SB Trains |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
4/26/1971 Upload Date: 5/3/2007 4:03:17 PM |
| Location: |
Ivy City, DC |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SOU 6907(E8A) SCL 550(E7A) SCL 579(E8A) |
| Views: |
1331 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Southern Railway E8A #6907 leads the Washington, DC bound Crescent (#20) |
| Description: |
Southern Railway E8A #6907 was built December 1953 |
| Photo Date: |
4/5/1975 Upload Date: 7/27/2012 10:39:55 AM |
| Location: |
Birmingham, AL |
| Author: |
Bernie Feltman |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6907(E8A) |
| Views: |
989 Comments: 7 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6907 Francis Lightfoot Lee 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 7:14:40 PM |
| Location: |
Atlanta, GA |
| Author: |
Frank Greene |
| Categories: |
|
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6907(E8A) |
| Views: |
589 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern 6907 |
| Description: |
The motive power for the Southern Crescent wore these ugly patches for the Bicentennial. Ivy City engine terminal, Washington, August 1976. |
| Photo Date: |
8/14/1976 Upload Date: 9/14/2013 11:23:26 AM |
| Location: |
Ivy City, DC |
| Author: |
John Hepp |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6907(E8A) |
| Views: |
391 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT |
| Description: |
About 50 minutes after leaving New Orleans the Southern Railway’s northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT had just crossed Bayou Liberty Road in Slidell, Louisiana and was slowing for its station stop. The train was powered by E8A units 6906, 6908, 6903 and 6907. (approximate date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
3/1/1977 Upload Date: 7/18/2020 10:46:18 AM |
| Location: |
Slidell, LA |
| Author: |
JAMES H. SELZER, JR. photo |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6907(E8A) |
| Views: |
317 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern Crescent |
| Description: |
Southbound Crescent stops at Birmingham station. 1st Ave North overpass in distance. Photo sometime in 1978. |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1978 Upload Date: 5/5/2009 10:41:54 PM |
| Location: |
Birmingham, AL |
| Author: |
Rick D |
| Categories: |
|
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6907(E8A) |
| Views: |
746 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NOUPT |
| Description: |
When Amtrak took over operation of the SOUTHERN CRESCENT on 1 February 1979 it leased all of the Southern Railway’s remaining E8A units for six months. While the Southern had maintained the locos at Atlanta and they were hardly ever seen in New Orleans during the day, Amtrak assigned them to New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal for maintenance and scenes like this became common. In this view, taken about three weeks after Amtrak began running the train (as the CRESCENT), Southern 6907, 6903 and 6909 were parked outside of the NOUPT diesel shop with SDP40F 624 and P30CH 722. Southern 6908 was coupled to the 624, while Southern 6911 was behind the photographer along with F40’s 252 and 265, and P30CH units 710, 715 and 721. |
| Photo Date: |
2/19/1979 Upload Date: 8/29/2018 5:54:04 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6907(E8A) |
| Views: |
1127 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6907--E8A |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
5/6/1979 Upload Date: 12/21/2011 9:06:58 PM |
| Location: |
Louisville, KY |
| Author: |
Tom Smart |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SOU 6907(E8A) |
| Views: |
808 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern Crescent, northbound, summer of 1977 |
| Description: |
I was always too chicken to climb up the semaphore pole - my brother took this one! |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/2005 Upload Date: 1/1/2006 12:32:29 AM |
| Location: |
Purvis, MS |
| Author: |
John Sita |
| Categories: |
|
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6907(E8A) |
| Views: |
569 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southern Crescent, southbound, March, 1974 |
| Description: |
It wasn't in a particular hurry this day - maybe 45 mph. |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/2005 Upload Date: 1/1/2006 12:33:48 AM |
| Location: |
Purvis, MS |
| Author: |
John Sita |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SOU 6907(E8A) |
| Views: |
550 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SCL 529 and Southern 6908 at Ivy City |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
1/11/1969 Upload Date: 8/27/2011 7:57:16 PM |
| Location: |
Washington, DC |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SCL 523(E6A) SOU 6908(E8A) |
| Views: |
651 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6908 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
1/11/1969 Upload Date: 5/3/2007 4:03:18 PM |
| Location: |
Ivy City, DC |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SOU 6908(E8A) |
| Views: |
489 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Southern No. 2 |
| Description: |
Southern 6908 and 6913 were two of the four E-units on the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT as the train was crossing the South Carrollton Avenue underpass. This was 2.6 miles after departing from New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, and this bridge was one of about a dozen grade separations built as a part of the NOUPT project around 1950. Almost all of the underpasses had decorative concrete beams outside of the plate girders; but these had been removed here, probably after being hit by trucks. Carrollton Avenue Station was at the left end of this bridge, and you can still see one of the stairways leading down from the two platforms to the sidewalk. (approximate day) |
| Photo Date: |
5/14/1975 Upload Date: 4/3/2017 1:20:43 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver. Jr. photo |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6908(E8A) SOU 6913(E8A) |
| Views: |
656 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern Crescent |
| Description: |
The low morning sun illuminated the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT as a rolled by the former location of Carrollton Avenue Station on its way out of New Orleans. Today's train had FIVE E-units - 6908, 6902, 6907, 6912 and 6916 - and 11 cars. Five units were very unusual, but would occasionally show up on a northbound train if a unit from a previous trip had been left in town for some attention at the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal diesel shop. The tracks in the foreground were the remnants of a Kansas City Southern yard. |
| Photo Date: |
10/29/1975 Upload Date: 11/12/2016 8:27:06 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6908(E8A) |
| Views: |
377 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6908 |
| Description: |
Picture was taken by Harv Khan(Deceased) I am posting so everyone can enjoy his excellent work |
| Photo Date: |
12/29/1975 Upload Date: 8/6/2008 10:34:52 PM |
| Location: |
Washington, DC |
| Author: |
Crow T. Robot |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SOU 6908(E8A) |
| Views: |
426 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern Railway E8A #6908 leads the Southern Crescent (train #19) to a stop at the depot |
| Description: |
Southern Railwly E8A #6908 was built December 1953. |
| Photo Date: |
3/1/1976 Upload Date: 4/10/2011 3:41:00 PM |
| Location: |
Tuscaloosa, AL |
| Author: |
Bernie Feltman |
| Categories: |
Roster,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6908(E8A) |
| Views: |
3341 Comments: 10 |
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| Title: |
Southern Railway E8A #6908, with three other E8A's, on the southbound Southern Crescent #19 |
| Description: |
Southern Railway E8A #6908 was built December 1953. |
| Photo Date: |
3/1/1976 Upload Date: 7/28/2009 9:44:01 AM |
| Location: |
Tuscaloosa, AL |
| Author: |
Bernie Feltman |
| Categories: |
Roster,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6908(E8A) |
| Views: |
913 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Southern Railway E8A #6908, with the Southern Crescent (trabn #19) stopped for passengers |
| Description: |
Southern Railway E8A #6908 was built December 1953. |
| Photo Date: |
3/1/1976 Upload Date: 4/10/2011 3:41:20 PM |
| Location: |
Tuscaloosa, AL |
| Author: |
Bernie Feltman |
| Categories: |
Roster,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6908(E8A) |
| Views: |
1122 Comments: 8 |
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| Title: |
Southern Railway E8A #6908, with the Southern Crescent (train #19) stopped for passengers |
| Description: |
Southern Railway E8A #6908 was built December 1953. |
| Photo Date: |
3/1/1976 Upload Date: 4/10/2011 3:41:24 PM |
| Location: |
Tuscaloosa, AL |
| Author: |
Bernie Feltman |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6908(E8A) |
| Views: |
2203 Comments: 5 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6908 Thomas Heyward, Jr. of South Carolina |
| 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 7:14:41 PM |
| Location: |
Atlanta, GA |
| Author: |
Frank Greene |
| Categories: |
|
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6908(E8A) |
| Views: |
654 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6908 |
| Description: |
Southern Crescent |
| Photo Date: |
12/1/1976 Upload Date: 1/20/2008 3:38:40 PM |
| Location: |
Birmingham, AL |
| Author: |
Craig Mashburn |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6908(E8A) |
| Views: |
565 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern E8A 6908 |
| Description: |
Southern E8A 6908 was leading the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT over the Lake Pontchartrain trestle at North Shore, Louisiana. (approximate date) |
| Photo Date: |
10/15/1977 Upload Date: 9/20/2019 9:52:55 PM |
| Location: |
North Shore, LA |
| Author: |
JAMES H. SELZER, JR. photo |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6908(E8A) |
| Views: |
1013 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SOU E8A 6908 |
| Description: |
Southern E8A 6908 had been the trailing unit on the nortbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT from Atlanta to Washington. Here, the units pull away from the train and will be replaced by Amtrak electric power for the final leg of the trip to New York. |
| Photo Date: |
9/16/1978 Upload Date: 9/22/2010 3:56:28 PM |
| Location: |
Washington, DC |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver, Jr. |
| Categories: |
Station |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6908(E8A) |
| Views: |
611 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Ivy City Engine Terminal |
| Description: |
This was the Ivy City engine terminal at Washington Union Station. From left to right were Washington Terminal Co. RS1’s 40 and 46, Amtrak F40’s 267 and 270, SDP40F’s 644 and 643, Southern E8A 6908 and an unidentified United Aircraft TURBOTRAIN. |
| Photo Date: |
9/20/1978 Upload Date: 8/23/2020 12:46:25 PM |
| Location: |
Washington, DC |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER photo |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6908(E8A) AMTK 270(F40PH) AMTK 267(F40PHR) |
| Views: |
763 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Ivy City Engine Terminal |
| Description: |
The Ivy City engine terminal at Washington Union Station included Amtrak SDP40F units 644 and 643 (with the 647), Southern E8A 6908 and an unidentified United Aircraft TURBOTRAIN. |
| Photo Date: |
9/20/1978 Upload Date: 8/23/2020 12:46:45 PM |
| Location: |
Washington, DC |
| Author: |
PAUL H. OLIVER photo |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6908(E8A) AMTK 644(SDP40F) |
| Views: |
697 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southern Railway (SOU) EMD E8A No. 6908 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
4/13/1980 Upload Date: 2/2/2009 7:38:45 AM |
| Location: |
Elizabethport Yard, NJ |
| Author: |
Bill Rogerson |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6908(E8A) |
| Views: |
578 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SR 6908 |
| Description: |
Behind E'port shots |
| Photo Date: |
4/19/1980 Upload Date: 5/14/2008 9:16:53 PM |
| Location: |
Elizabethport, NJ |
| Author: |
Tim Darnell |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SOU 6908(E8A) |
| Views: |
825 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6908 Never recieved an NJ Transit number |
| Description: |
Former Southern Cresent E-8 in New Jersey. |
| Photo Date: |
7/4/1987 Upload Date: 5/30/2005 11:21:13 PM |
| Location: |
Raritan, NJ |
| Author: |
Tony Krslovic |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SOU 6908(E8A) |
| Views: |
752 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Southern Crescent, August, 1978 |
| Description: |
The Seabrook drawbridge near the Lakefront. I still remember the clatter across the bridge. |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/2005 Upload Date: 1/3/2006 2:08:51 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
John Sita |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SOU 6908(E8A) |
| Views: |
1050 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
SCL 523 |
| Description: |
SCL 523 and SOU 6909 rest at Ivy City. |
| Photo Date: |
1/26/1969 Upload Date: 8/30/2010 11:50:30 PM |
| Location: |
Washington, DC |
| Author: |
Henry Frick |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6909(E8A) SCL 523(E6A) |
| Views: |
1245 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SOU #1 |
| Description: |
-6909-2928(E-8As) |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1971 Upload Date: 9/13/2011 10:05:55 AM |
| Location: |
Birmingham, AL |
| Author: |
Gil Ford |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6909(E8A) |
| Views: |
295 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6909 |
| Description: |
The northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT is about 20 minutes out of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, and the fireman is in position to get his orders at N.E. Tower. Back in the train, the baggage man and the conductor are prepared to do the same thing. Todal's train has green E8A's 6909 and 6912 bracketing black FP7A's 6132 and 6147. During 1974 and early 1975, various combinations of E- and FP-units were not uncommon on the train south of Atlanta. The signals protect a crossing with the L&N main line, and the track in the foregrmund was an L&N branch to the Mississippi River. |
| Photo Date: |
7/10/1974 Upload Date: 6/6/2009 6:13:13 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6909(E8A) |
| Views: |
1575 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Southern Railway TMain No. 2 |
| Description: |
An hour after leaving New Orleans, Southern Railway’s northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT was pulling up to the station in Slidell, Louisiana for its first stot. The train had its usual motive power, four green E8A units, along with a couple of deadheading cars on the head end. Sleeper 2012 SALUDA RIVER wasn’t unusual; but combine 727 FORT MITCHELL was, as this may have been the only time that the 727 had been on this end of the railroad. (approximate date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
11/1/1975 Upload Date: 3/2/2021 12:07:53 PM |
| Location: |
Slidell, LA |
| Author: |
JAMDS H. SELZER, JR. image |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6909(E8A) |
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SOU E8A!6909 |
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While many railroads gave locomitves special paint schemes to celebrate the nation's bicentennial, the Southern Railway applied decals to its passenger units hmnoring Southern Signers of the Declaration of Independence. This shot of the 6909 outside of the New Arleans Union Passenger Terminal diesel shop includes all sorts of details, including the General Electric alternators on each axle which wewe a part of the wheel-slip control system. (date approximate( |
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5/1/1976 Upload Date: 6/6/2010 10:47:00 AM |
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New Orleans, LA |
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Paul H. Oliver, Jr. |
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Roster |
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SOU 6909(E8A) |
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SOU 6909 George Wythe of Virginia |
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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. |
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5/1/1976 Upload Date: 1/24/2006 7:14:41 PM |
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Atlanta, GA |
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Frank Greene |
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SOU 6909(E8A) |
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The Southbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT |
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Southern Railway GP7 8300 was beginning to switch train No. 1 - the southbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT - in the Atlanta station by removing the locomotives which had brought the train in from Washington: E8A units 6910, 6909, 6906 and 6901. In the distance were the units which would power the train to New Orleans - the 6911, 6902 and 6913 - along with freshly-stocked diner 3869 and dome car 1613. After replacing the power, the 8300 would remove the last five cars which had come in from Washington and then add these two cars to the rear of the train. This was a regular procedure on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, when No. 1 ran all the way from Washington to New Orleans. Dome cars did not run north of Atlanta because there wasn't enough clearance in the tunnel leading into Washington Union Station. |
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5/17/1977 Upload Date: 6/23/2020 6:03:37 PM |
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Atlanta, GA |
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JAMES H. SELZER, JR. photo |
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Passenger |
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SOU 6909(E8A) |
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SOU 6909 |
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The Southern Crescent prepares to make her station stop at Alexandria just after sunset. Date of photo approximate. |
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8/1/1977 Upload Date: 8/7/2009 10:14:58 PM |
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Alexandria, VA |
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Mike Woodruff |
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SOU 6909(E8A) |
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