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The New York–Miami Silver Meteor heels to a curve near Sebring, Fla., on March 30, 1970, nearly 3 years after the Seaboard + Atlantic Coast Line merger. At 17 cars, the train is a testament to the enduring strength of the New York–Florida rail travel market. William T. Morgan photo […]
Direction Southbound (read down) Train No. 101 107 109 111 121 123 335 Frequency Daily Daily Ex. Sun., Mon. Ex. Fri., Sat, Daily Ex. Sat. Ex. Sat., Sun. Type CSX, NS, Bowden intermodal (UPS), autos NS, Bowden intermodal (UPS), autos Empty rock, manifest Intermodal, manifest, autos CSX, NS, FEC intermodal, autos […]
Construction on my new HO scale Georgia Northeastern layout is progressing as seen in this video. This layout replaces my old CSX Hawksridge Division which was dismantled when I moved. The new layout is a small switching layout based on the Georgia Northeastern Railroad, a short line railroad that runs from Marietta to McCaysville, Ga. […]
This video shows the latest progress on my GNRR model railroad layout, including detailing the locomotive service facility, new DOW chemical facility, and photo backdrops for Etowah River and Highway 53. […]
Watch 8mm home movies from 1945-46 of Seaboard Air Line steam and diesel action around Melrose, N.C. From the collection of James H. D. Helms Jr., whose father took the movies and whose grandfather was an SAL conductor. […]
Watch 8mm home movies from 1945-46 of Seaboard Air Line steam and diesel action around Melrose, N.C. From the collection of James H. D. Helms Jr., whose father took the movies and whose grandfather was an SAL conductor. […]
Headhouse and platforms Jacksonville Terminal Co. Jacksonville Terminal was a monument to Florida’s status as the southern vacation destination of choice for the eastern half of the U.S. Few travelers got off here; instead, the city was the funnel for trains arriving over the Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line, and Southern Railway on their […]
CSX train Q243 rounds a curve north of Campbellsburg, Ky., on CSX’s LCL Subdivision on March 13, 2014. Photo by Jeff Wagoner […]
Norfolk Southern train No. 334 makes its way eastbound as it flies over the NS East End District in Leeds, Ala., with C40-9 No. 8840 leading a leased unit on Nov. 5, 2011. Photo by Bradley Bates […]
Southbound Norfolk Southern train No. 890 passes Kings Mountain, Ky., on March 21, 2014. Photo by Jeff Wagoner […]
See this photo gallery of streamlined locomotives that dazzled crowds at the North Carolina Transportation Museum complex in Spencer, N.C., in Summer 2014. This is a modified version of the photo gallery that first appeared on Classic Trains‘ website. […]
Bystanders inspect a sedan deluged with coke during a derailment of an L&N train in Chattanooga. C. K. Marsh Jr. One day in 1965, a friend and I were searching for the obscure terminal of the Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railroad in the Alton Park section of Chattanooga. Coming up on a railroad crossing, we […]
