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Owner: Southern
Model:EMD E8ABuilt As:SOU 2924 (E8A)
Serial Number:14173Order No:2039
Frame Number:2039-A2Built:9/1951
Notes:Built 9/1951 as CNOTP #2924
Other locos with this serial:  SOU 6901(E8A) NGRR 6901(E8A) SMRX 6901(E8A)
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Shots of THE Southern Cresent in Birmingham
Title:  Shots of THE Southern Cresent in Birmingham
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/6/1972  Upload Date: 11/5/2010 6:45:52 PM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  667   Comments: 1
Shots of THE Southern Cresent in Birmingham
Title:  Shots of THE Southern Cresent in Birmingham
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/6/1972  Upload Date: 11/5/2010 6:45:59 PM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  551   Comments: 1
Shots of THE Southern Cresent in Birmingham
Title:  Shots of THE Southern Cresent in Birmingham
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/6/1972  Upload Date: 11/5/2010 6:46:01 PM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  451   Comments: 1
Shots of THE Southern Cresent in Birmingham
Title:  Shots of THE Southern Cresent in Birmingham
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/6/1972  Upload Date: 11/5/2010 6:46:02 PM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  331   Comments: 0
Shots of THE Southern Cresent in Birmingham
Title:  Shots of THE Southern Cresent in Birmingham
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/6/1972  Upload Date: 11/5/2010 6:46:03 PM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  1039   Comments: 4
Shots of THE Southern Cresent in Birmingham
Title:  Shots of THE Southern Cresent in Birmingham
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/6/1972  Upload Date: 11/5/2010 6:46:04 PM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  455   Comments: 0
Shots of THE Southern Cresent in Birmingham
Title:  Shots of THE Southern Cresent in Birmingham
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/6/1972  Upload Date: 11/5/2010 6:46:05 PM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  InCab
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  614   Comments: 1
Shots of THE Southern Cresent in Birmingham
Title:  Shots of THE Southern Cresent in Birmingham
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/6/1972  Upload Date: 11/5/2010 6:46:05 PM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  InCab
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  654   Comments: 0
Shots of THE Southern Cresent in Birmingham
Title:  Shots of THE Southern Cresent in Birmingham
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/6/1972  Upload Date: 11/5/2010 6:45:50 PM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  InCab
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  564   Comments: 0
SR 6901
Title:  SR 6901
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/6/1974  Upload Date: 12/23/2015 4:47:50 PM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  804   Comments: 0
SOU 6901
Title:  SOU 6901
Description:  The northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT is 11 minutes out of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal as it rounds the curve at Orleans Avenue. The train is operating over a Southern subsidiary, the New Orleans Terminal Co. Today's train has E8A's 6901, 6913, 6907, 6916 with ten cars: a baggage-dormitory, four coaches, diner 3310, three 10-6 sleepers, and dome parlor 1602.
Photo Date:  5/13/1974  Upload Date: 6/4/2009 11:26:24 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  1764   Comments: 0
SOU 6901 leads train 8
Title:  SOU 6901 leads train 8
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/9/1974  Upload Date: 1/21/2007 5:00:08 PM
Location:  Burke, VA
Author:  Tim Sullivan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  1128   Comments: 2
Southern No. 1
Title:  Southern No. 1
Description:  The southbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT was pulling up to the station at Slidell, Louisiana for its last stop before arriving in New Orleans. (approximate date)
Photo Date:  5/1/1975  Upload Date: 12/23/2019 10:36:41 PM
Location:  Slidell, LA
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. photo
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  891   Comments: 1
SOU 6901 Joseph Hewes of North Carolina
Title:  SOU 6901 Joseph Hewes of North Carolina
Description:  In 1976, the Southern paid tribute to the American Bicentennial with banners for the signers of the Declaration of Independence from the Southern's territory.
Photo Date:  5/1/1976  Upload Date: 1/24/2006 7:14:38 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Frank Greene
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  947   Comments: 0
E8A No. 6901 leads Train No. 1, The Southern Crescent
Title:  E8A No. 6901 leads Train No. 1, The Southern Crescent
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/20/1976  Upload Date: 4/16/2018 12:36:26 PM
Location:  Laurel, MS
Author:  John Walker
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  407   Comments: 0
Southern 6901
Title:  Southern 6901
Description:  This photo always reminds me of favorite train trip to Florida. Instead of taking Amtrak there directly from Philadelphia, I took the then-independent Southern Crescent to Birmingham and then took the Amtrak Floridian (a Chicago to Florida train) from Birmingham to Miami. Heres the Crescent in Birmingham in August 1976.
Photo Date:  8/15/1976  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 11:06:37 AM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  725   Comments: 0
SOU 6901
Title:  SOU 6901
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1977  Upload Date: 5/28/2005 11:55:20 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Edwin Locklin
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  942   Comments: 2
SOU 6901
Title:  SOU 6901
Description:  The Southern Crescent moves southward thru downtown B'ham.
Photo Date:  2/1/1977  Upload Date: 8/27/2006 7:38:26 PM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Robert Duncan Sr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  995   Comments: 1
Southern E8A 6901
Title:  Southern E8A 6901
Description:  Southern E8A 6901 had been the trailing unit on train No. 1 - the southbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT - from Washington to Atlanta, and here it was at the Atlanta station as the inbound power was being removed from the train so these could be replaced with freshly-serviced locomotives. The 6901 had been built in September 1951 as the 2924 and was renumbered in 1972. It was retired in 1979 and donated to the Atlanta Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society.
Photo Date:  5/17/1977  Upload Date: 6/23/2020 6:10:05 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. photo
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  330   Comments: 0
Southern Railway Train No. 2
Title:  Southern Railway Train No. 2
Description:  Southern Railway Train No. 2 – the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT – was rolling under the cantilever signals at the Frenchmen Street Crossover as it made its way out of New Orleans. The train was powered by E8A units 6901, 6913, 6910 and 6905, and was about to pass under Elysian Fields Ave.
Photo Date:  6/8/1977  Upload Date: 5/10/2022 10:37:21 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  200   Comments: 0
Southern 6901
Title:  Southern 6901
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/23/1977  Upload Date: 2/17/2023 12:25:55 PM
Location:  Washington, DC
Author:  Dick Leonhardt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  43   Comments: 0
Southern Railway Train No. 2
Title:  Southern Railway Train No. 2
Description:  Southern Railway E8A 6901 was leading the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT over the railroad’s 5.5-mile trestle across Lake Pontchartrain at North Shore, Louisiana. The 8-car train consisted of four E8A locomotives, a baggage-dormitory car, three coaches, two sleepers, a diner and a dome car. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  3/1/1978  Upload Date: 9/19/2021 6:51:00 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. image
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  424   Comments: 0
Southern Train No. 2
Title:  Southern Train No. 2
Description:  The E8A's on the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT cast their reflections on the water of Lake Pontchartrain as the train nears the end of the five-and-a half-mile trestle. Unusually calm water allowed photogrpaher Jim Selzer to capture this wonderful scene just a year before Amtrak took over operation of the train. (approximate date)
Photo Date:  3/15/1978  Upload Date: 7/19/2016 5:56:48 PM
Location:  North Shore, LA
Author:  James H. Selzer, Jr.
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A) SOU 6914(E8A)
Views:  1740   Comments: 1
Southern 6901
Title:  Southern 6901
Description:  Southern E-8 leading a special train north, coming into Central, SC
Photo Date:  4/21/1978  Upload Date: 3/16/2011 2:18:42 PM
Location:  Central, SC
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  1694   Comments: 0
Eckington Yard, Washington DC
Title:  Eckington Yard, Washington DC
Description:  Southern E8 #6915 & 6901
Photo Date:  3/1/1979  Upload Date: 3/4/2015 12:55:42 AM
Location:  Eckington, DC
Author:  Ray Soderberg
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6915(E8A) SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  721   Comments: 0
SOU E8 6901
Title:  SOU E8 6901
Description:  Southern Railway E8 6901 at Washington, DC on an unknown day in May 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  5/1/1979  Upload Date: 12/3/2013 12:57:01 PM
Location:  Washington, DC
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  1025   Comments: 0
Former SOU E8 6901 being rebuilt.
Title:  Former SOU E8 6901 being rebuilt.
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/27/1985  Upload Date: 2/12/2014 9:23:47 AM
Location:  Cornelia, GA
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  383   Comments: 0
Former SOU E8 6901 being rebuilt.
Title:  Former SOU E8 6901 being rebuilt.
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/10/1985  Upload Date: 2/12/2014 9:28:58 AM
Location:  Cornelia, GA
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  452   Comments: 0
Former SOU E8 6901 being rebuilt.
Title:  Former SOU E8 6901 being rebuilt.
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/10/1985  Upload Date: 2/12/2014 9:30:01 AM
Location:  Cornelia, GA
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  639   Comments: 0
Former SOU E8 6901 being rebuilt.
Title:  Former SOU E8 6901 being rebuilt.
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/10/1985  Upload Date: 2/12/2014 9:31:28 AM
Location:  Cornelia, GA
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  469   Comments: 0
Former SOU E8 6901 being rebuilt.
Title:  Former SOU E8 6901 being rebuilt.
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/10/1985  Upload Date: 2/12/2014 9:32:54 AM
Location:  Cornelia, GA
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  370   Comments: 0
Former SOU E8 6901 being rebuilt.
Title:  Former SOU E8 6901 being rebuilt.
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/10/1985  Upload Date: 2/12/2014 9:34:04 AM
Location:  Cornelia, GA
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Roster,Night
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  480   Comments: 0
Former SOU E8 6901 being rebuilt.
Title:  Former SOU E8 6901 being rebuilt.
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/10/1985  Upload Date: 2/12/2014 9:35:28 AM
Location:  Cornelia, GA
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Roster,Night
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  492   Comments: 0
SOU 6901
Title:  SOU 6901
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/21/1992  Upload Date: 2/23/2015 7:58:17 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Johnny Winkler
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  3733   Comments: 1
SOU 6901
Title:  SOU 6901
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/6/2003  Upload Date: 1/14/2006 10:51:57 PM
Location:  Duluth, GA
Author:  Stephen Flynt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  715   Comments: 0
Southern Crescent
Title:  Southern Crescent
Description:  Southern Crescent passenger locomotive at Southeastern Railway Museum
Photo Date:  6/22/2004  Upload Date: 6/22/2004 2:42:15 AM
Location:  Duluth, GA
Author:  Craig Gardner
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  973   Comments: 0
Southern E8 Rooftop Details
Title:  Southern E8 Rooftop Details
Description:  Roof mounted air tanks, pipes, fans, and other details
Photo Date:  10/1/2004  Upload Date: 7/16/2009 7:25:02 PM
Location:  Duluth, GA
Author:  Jason Greene
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  1012   Comments: 0
Southern E8 Rooftop Details
Title:  Southern E8 Rooftop Details
Description:  Roof mounted air tanks, pipes, fans, and other details
Photo Date:  10/1/2004  Upload Date: 7/16/2009 7:25:03 PM
Location:  Duluth, GA
Author:  Jason Greene
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  678   Comments: 0
Southern E8 Rooftop Details
Title:  Southern E8 Rooftop Details
Description:  Roof mounted air tanks, pipes, fans, and other details
Photo Date:  10/1/2004  Upload Date: 7/16/2009 7:25:04 PM
Location:  Duluth, GA
Author:  Jason Greene
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  643   Comments: 0
Southern E8 Rooftop Details
Title:  Southern E8 Rooftop Details
Description:  Roof mounted air tanks, pipes, fans, and other details
Photo Date:  10/1/2004  Upload Date: 7/16/2009 7:25:04 PM
Location:  Duluth, GA
Author:  Jason Greene
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  632   Comments: 0
Southern E8 Rooftop Details
Title:  Southern E8 Rooftop Details
Description:  Roof mounted air tanks, pipes, fans, and other details
Photo Date:  10/1/2004  Upload Date: 7/16/2009 7:25:05 PM
Location:  Duluth, GA
Author:  Jason Greene
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  492   Comments: 0
Southern E8 Rooftop Details
Title:  Southern E8 Rooftop Details
Description:  Roof mounted air tanks, pipes, fans, and other details
Photo Date:  10/1/2004  Upload Date: 7/16/2009 7:25:06 PM
Location:  Duluth, GA
Author:  Jason Greene
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  582   Comments: 0
Southern E8 Rooftop Details
Title:  Southern E8 Rooftop Details
Description:  Roof mounted air tanks, pipes, fans, and other details
Photo Date:  10/1/2004  Upload Date: 7/16/2009 7:25:07 PM
Location:  Duluth, GA
Author:  Jason Greene
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  536   Comments: 0
Southern E8 Rooftop Details
Title:  Southern E8 Rooftop Details
Description:  Roof mounted air tanks, pipes, fans, and other details
Photo Date:  10/1/2004  Upload Date: 7/16/2009 7:25:08 PM
Location:  Duluth, GA
Author:  Jason Greene
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  796   Comments: 0
Southern E8 Rooftop Details
Title:  Southern E8 Rooftop Details
Description:  Roof mounted air tanks, pipes, fans, and other details
Photo Date:  10/1/2004  Upload Date: 7/16/2009 7:25:09 PM
Location:  Duluth, GA
Author:  Jason Greene
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  926   Comments: 0
Southern E8 Rooftop Details
Title:  Southern E8 Rooftop Details
Description:  Roof mounted air tanks, pipes, fans, and other details
Photo Date:  10/1/2004  Upload Date: 7/16/2009 7:25:01 PM
Location:  Duluth, GA
Author:  Jason Greene
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  797   Comments: 0
Southern Crescent, northbound, July, 1978
Title:  Southern Crescent, northbound, July, 1978
Description:  A freight had just pulled over on the siding and the passenger train was going maybe 40 mph.
Photo Date:  12/31/2005  Upload Date: 1/3/2006 2:10:11 PM
Location:  Purvis, MS
Author:  John Sita
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  2530   Comments: 1
Southern Crescent, southbound, July, 1978
Title:  Southern Crescent, southbound, July, 1978
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2005  Upload Date: 1/3/2006 2:12:31 PM
Location:  Purvis, MS
Author:  John Sita
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  700   Comments: 1
Southern Railway No. 6901
Title:  Southern Railway No. 6901
Description:  Southern Railway E8a, later used on the New Georgia Railroad. I had the opportunity to ride in her cab, and briefly drive her, on a trip around Atlanta back in 1991.
Photo Date:  6/16/2006  Upload Date: 1/17/2008 10:24:57 PM
Location:  Duluth, GA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  716   Comments: 0
Me and the Southern Crescent SOU 6901
Title:  Me and the Southern Crescent SOU 6901
Description:  Just gotta love the streamliner!
Photo Date:  9/14/2006  Upload Date: 8/27/2008 10:43:39 PM
Location:  Duluth, GA
Author:  Ryan Koertge
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  714   Comments: 0


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