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Southern SD45 3134 leaves a pall of smoke over the depot area at Salisbury, N.C., July 17, 1977. Mike Small Growing up in close proximity to a main line, I’ve always valued speed and power in railroading. We lived about a mile south of Jamestown, N.C., where Southern Railway’s Washington, D.C., to Atlanta, Ga., route […]

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NASA locomotives depart Kennedy Space Center NEWSWIRE

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FEC GP40-2 No. 427 pulls the two NASA Railroad switchers from the property on Friday. NASA/Kim Shiflett CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The locomotives that once helped NASA’s space shuttles on their journeys into space have departed the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after being sold under NASA’s Excess Program. The two EMD SW1500 locomotives, which […]

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Florida East Coast scheduled trains

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 […]

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Seaboard Air Line at Melrose, N.C.

Red caboose on rear of freight train

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. […]

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