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SCL 05758 |
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05758 is at the end of a fast piggyback train at Port Wentworth, Ga. |
Photo Date: |
9/4/1980 Upload Date: 8/22/2014 7:10:24 AM |
Location: |
Port Wentworth, GA |
Author: |
Randy Chassereau |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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478 Comments: 1 |
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SBD C30-7 7023 |
Description: |
Seaboard System C30-7 7023 at Greensboro, Georgia on February 25, 1983, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. |
Photo Date: |
2/25/1983 Upload Date: 12/31/2012 12:12:48 PM |
Location: |
Greensboro, GA |
Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
SBD 7023(C30-7) |
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313 Comments: 3 |
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Title: |
SBD C30-7 7023 |
Description: |
SBD C30-7 7023 at Greensboro, Georgia on February 25, 1983, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Ont the right is Train #108, the last mixed train in the US. I was a passenger on this date. ahead of the caboose is a Budd coach, the accommodations for passengers, and I was the sole paying passenger. After this meet I was invited into the caboose, an invitation I did not turn down. My perch was the left cupola window. |
Photo Date: |
2/25/1983 Upload Date: 8/6/2012 1:05:35 PM |
Location: |
Greensboro, GA |
Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
SBD 7023(C30-7) |
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312 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
L&N 6410 |
Description: |
L&N caboose 6410 at Greensboro, Georgia on February 25, 1983, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. I was a passenger on Train #108 in the hole on the right, the last class one mixed train in the US. My ride was the Budd coach just ahead of the caboose SCL 05758. I was the only passenger and was invited back to ride in the caboose, SCL 05758. The gentleman on the ground safely performing the roll-by inspection was H. C. Hardy, Conductor on #108. |
Photo Date: |
2/25/1983 Upload Date: 3/12/2014 1:59:42 PM |
Location: |
Greensboro, GA |
Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
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RollingStock |
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262 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
SCL 05758 |
Description: |
SCL 05758 and Georgia 120 at Union Point, Georgia on February 25, 1983, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This was the last mixed train on a Class One railroad in the United States. In order to maintain a tax break built into the original charter of this stetch of railroad, the operator of these rails was required to provide passenger service. I was on a business trip to Florida, returning to Chicago, and talked my employer into letting me drive the company's AV equipment back to Chicago, rather than shippng by air. We flew the equipment down and had severe damage, forcing the company to rent locally. I took advantage of my 'cost savings' offer, plotted every railroad photo opportunity en-route, rented a Silverado and loaded it up. One stop was this train, I read about it in Trains Magazine, and bought a round-trip ticket from Atlanta to Union Point. Finding someone to sell me the ticket was a challenge in itself, and ended up at the yard office. The next day I boarded (the only customer), first riding in the Budd coach pictured. It was my good fortune that the car ahead was a flatcar loaded with steel plate, so I spend the first part of the trip standing in the vestible of the coach (it was cold), which offered a great view forward. The crew noticed me jumping out at every stop and taking photos, so I was invited back to the caboose for the second half of the trip to Union Point, Southern Hospitality perhaps. I rode in the cupola window pictured for the rest of the trip, but had to duck down and get back to the coach during that last five miles, in case any officials were watching. The return trip was in a bay-window caboose, two of them were on the train back to Atlanta, my 'coach' was the first one. |
Photo Date: |
2/25/1983 Upload Date: 6/25/2012 5:33:12 PM |
Location: |
Union Point, GA |
Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
Categories: |
Yard,Passenger |
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642 Comments: 2 |
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