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| Last updated on August 7, 2025
The Central of Georgia’s Atlanta to Savanna Nancy Hanks II approaches the station at Macon, Ga., on its exhibition run behind brand-new E7 No. 808 on July 9, 1947. Named for a race horse, the original Nancy Hanks train ran in the 1890s. The railroad, in bankruptcy from 1932 to 1948, became a Southern Railway subsidiary in 1963.
Walter M. Pharr photo
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CG’s Nancy Hanks II train survived from 1947 to 1971. The company’s E7A diesel loco No. 808, built in 1946, also did not survive to this day…
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