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Photos & Videos Photo of the Day ‘Crescent Limited’

‘Crescent Limited’

By Brian Schmidt | September 17, 2021

| Last updated on August 7, 2025

Crescent Limited

At an unknown station on an unknown date, Crescent Limited passengers enjoy the open rear platform of the Southern Railway train’s sleeper-observation car as a Ps-2 light Pacific passes. F. S. McKay photo

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Edward Riddle says:

November 8, 2021 at 6:21 pm

Love the Ps-2’s. My first train ride in 1947 was behind one in North Carolina. I was six year’s old, wish I had written down the engine number.

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