Southern’s Green FP7s in the 1970 80s - Trainorders. com SOU #6133 #6141 were painted in sylvan green early in 1976 to power the Skyland Special, a summer and fall excursion operation between Asheville and Old Fort Bicentennial Decals (like those applied to all seventeen of SOU’s E8A’s) honoring two of the NC’s Declaration of Independence signers were applied to these units
Freight Car Friday-SOU NS 85 Excess Height Box Cars - Trainorders. com SOU 9640-9739 were 85' Excess Height Box Cars Class BS-20 built by Pullman Standard in March 1965 They had 10,000 Cu Ft Capacity with an Internal Height of 12' 6" Originally designed to haul Tobacco, they were also used to transport Cotton Bales,Appliances,Furniture and Tires
NS (ex-SOU) Approach Restricted Signal Question - Trainorders. com This scan is from a 1985 NS Tennessee Division time table (when SOU N W still existed, jointly owned by NS Corp ) It shows both Rule 306 and Rule 306 1, which would be the signal referred to at Peachtree station JAC
BNSF Sou Cal Haulers - Trainorders. com Re: BNSF Sou Cal "Haulers" Author: 3rdswitch The only BNSF exSanta Fe train in the LA San Bernardino area referred to as a hauler is the Kaiser Hauler most other trains are names made up from their respective symbols such as the winkle bar [MWCLBAR] or barwinkle [MBARWCL] or kai pit or pit kai or lac nick [ZLACNYC] etc
Tuscola amp; Saginaw Bay Questions - Trainorders. com 2681 GP35 -High hood, SOU colors? Engine Information 387 GP35 - Dead, Stuck in trees in Owosso, Ann Arbor colors 388 GP35 - Hit milk truck in Alma, MI, Wrecked 2394 RS1 - Sitting dead in front of Vassar Depot 2648 GP35 - High Hood x-SOU - Painted in TSBY colors 2674 GP35 - High Hood x-SOU - Dead, Stuck in trees in Owosso - In SOU colors
A Foggy Morning at Potomac Yard, Southern Ry - Trainorders. com Potomac Yard was in the Northern Virginia straddlng southeastern Arlington County and northeastern Alexandria It has undergone significant redevelopment There was a bridge across the yard from which I took these photos on the foggy morning of April 29, 1970 1 SOU S
Norfolk Southern U33C - Trainorders. com The SOU U33C's rarely ran after the merger and were mostly stored in Atlanta The ex CR units never ran (getting only "NW" sublettering) and were stored until retired in 1985 All U33C's were traded in on C39-8's 3 ex CR units were heavily rebuilt for a joint venture between Island Creek Coal and a Chinese firm and went directly to China
Steam Excursion gt; Steam Files - Southern Railway #8 - Trainorders. com Shelby Lowe was a longtime SOU clerk who spent much of his career as the chief clerk to the superintendent of terminals in Atlanta He was a prolific historian and photographer of the SOU He co-authored one of the earliest and most comprehensive books on SOU steam He knew people all over the SOU system and got pics and history from them
Nostalgia History gt; Southern for Sunday - Trainorders. com Some SOU freight engines with tunnel clearance were used as emergency passenger leaders By the time I was engineer on SOU no 6 - the Piedmont out of Charlotte NC in the spring of 1976, the older freight power that cleared had been sent to Atlanta to work, and there was little choice but to use the Alco-trucked GP35 to lead the Piedmont towing