SOU mid train units.
Date:
3/26/1984
Location:
Atlanta, GA
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Collection Of:
Jim Owens
Locomotives:
SOU 3317(SD40-2)
Author:
Jim Owens
Picture Categories: Action
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Atlanta shots in the 1980's.
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Bryan Smith
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Great shot. I worked with Southern as a clerk during this time and spent many hours at Inman Yard in Atlanta. Back then the radio car was known as a "cracker box" and the mid train units were commonly referred to as "slave units". As political correctness took ahold in the latter 1980's officials decreed that they be referred to as "radio units". Referring to them as slave units would draw the ire of the bossmen.
6/8/2013 6:58:14 AM
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