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E-unit engineer

By Angela Cotey | February 5, 2025

| Last updated on August 7, 2025

J. F. Brunson is in the hot seat for the Florence (S.C.)–Savannah (Ga.) leg of Atlantic Coast Line train 75, the Havana Special, in August 1957.
William D. Middleton photo

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JOHN ZWEMER says:

February 9, 2025 at 9:06 am

I’ll bet Mr. Brunson is driving an E-6, one of the classist passenger locomotives ever. I like his last name, my town is Brunson SC.

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