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| Title: |
Southern E8s 6906 and 6909 |
| Description: |
The tracks in the foreground are the Northeast Corridor tracks. |
| Photo Date: |
1/11/1969 Upload Date: 5/3/2007 4:03:13 PM |
| Location: |
Ivy City, DC |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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| Locomotives: |
SOU 6906(E8A) SOU 6909(E8A) |
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1024 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SCL 523 |
| Description: |
SCL 523 and SOU 6909 rest at Ivy City. |
| Photo Date: |
1/26/1969 Upload Date: 8/30/2010 11:50:30 PM |
| Location: |
Washington, DC |
| Author: |
Henry Frick |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6909(E8A) SCL 523(E6A) |
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1182 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SOU #1 |
| Description: |
-6909-2928(E-8As) |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1971 Upload Date: 9/13/2011 10:05:55 AM |
| Location: |
Birmingham, AL |
| Author: |
Gil Ford |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6909(E8A) |
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237 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6909 |
| Description: |
The northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT is about 20 minutes out of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, and the fireman is in position to get his orders at N.E. Tower. Back in the train, the baggage man and the conductor are prepared to do the same thing. Today's train has green E8A's 6909 and 6912 bracketing black FP7A's 6132 and 6147. During 1974 and early 1975, various combinations of E- and FP-units were not uncommon on the train south of Atlanta. The signals protect a crossing with the L&N main line, and the track in the foreground was an L&N branch to the Mississippi River. |
| Photo Date: |
7/10/1974 Upload Date: 6/6/2009 6:13:13 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6909(E8A) |
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1489 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Southern Railway Train No. 2 |
| Description: |
An hour after leaving New Orleans, Southern Railway’s northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT was pulling up to the station in Slidell, Louisiana for its first stop. The train had its usual motive power, four green E8A units, along with a couple of deadheading cars on the head end. Sleeper 2012 SALUDA RIVER wasn’t unusual; but combine 727 FORT MITCHELL was, as this may have been the only time that the 727 had been on this end of the railroad. (approximate date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
11/1/1975 Upload Date: 3/2/2021 12:05:18 PM |
| Location: |
Slidell, LA |
| Author: |
JAMES H. SELZER, JR. image |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6909(E8A) |
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227 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southern Railway Train No. 2 |
| Description: |
An hour after leaving New Orleans, Southern Railway’s northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT was pulling up to the station in Slidell, Louisiana for its first stop. The train had its usual motive power, four green E8A units, along with a couple of deadheading cars on the head end. Sleeper 2012 SALUDA RIVER wasn’t unusual; but combine 727 FORT MITCHELL was, as this may have been the only time that the 727 had been on this end of the railroad. (approximate date of photo) |
| Photo Date: |
11/1/1975 Upload Date: 3/2/2021 12:07:53 PM |
| Location: |
Slidell, LA |
| Author: |
JAMES H. SELZER, JR. image |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6909(E8A) |
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337 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SOU E8A 6909 |
| Description: |
While many railroads gave locomitves special paint schemes to celebrate the nation's bicentennial, the Southern Railway applied decals to its passenger units honoring Southern Signers of the Declaration of Independence. This shot of the 6909 outside of the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal diesel shop includes all sorts of details, including the General Electric alternators on each axle which were a part of the wheel-slip control system. (date approximate) |
| Photo Date: |
5/1/1976 Upload Date: 6/6/2010 10:47:00 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Paul H. Oliver, Jr. |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6909(E8A) |
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1295 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6909 George Wythe of Virginia |
| 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 7:14:41 PM |
| Location: |
Atlanta, GA |
| Author: |
Frank Greene |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SOU 6909(E8A) |
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558 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
The Southbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT |
| Description: |
Southern Railway GP7 8300 was beginning to switch train No. 1 - the southbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT - in the Atlanta station by removing the locomotives which had brought the train in from Washington: E8A units 6910, 6909, 6906 and 6901. In the distance were the units which would power the train to New Orleans - the 6911, 6902 and 6913 - along with freshly-stocked diner 3869 and dome car 1613. After replacing the power, the 8300 would remove the last five cars which had come in from Washington and then add these two cars to the rear of the train. This was a regular procedure on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, when No. 1 ran all the way from Washington to New Orleans. Dome cars did not run north of Atlanta because there wasn't enough clearance in the tunnel leading into Washington Union Station. |
| Photo Date: |
5/17/1977 Upload Date: 6/23/2020 6:03:37 PM |
| Location: |
Atlanta, GA |
| Author: |
JAMES H. SELZER, JR. photo |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6909(E8A) |
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353 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SOU 6909 |
| Description: |
The Southern Crescent prepares to make her station stop at Alexandria just after sunset. Date of photo approximate. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/1977 Upload Date: 8/7/2009 10:14:58 PM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Mike Woodruff |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SOU 6909(E8A) |
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565 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southern 6909 |
| Description: |
The second unit (of four) on the Southern Crescent at New Orleans on February 28,1978. |
| Photo Date: |
2/28/1978 Upload Date: 9/14/2013 10:56:36 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans - NOUPT, LA |
| Author: |
John Hepp |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6909(E8A) |
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194 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southbound A-B-B-A Southern Crescent taking passengers |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
6/22/1978 Upload Date: 1/6/2007 12:07:34 AM |
| Location: |
Laurel, MS |
| Author: |
John Walker |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SOU 6909(E8A) |
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965 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southern Railway E8A 6913 & 6909 |
| Description: |
Power for Southern Crescent |
| Photo Date: |
12/29/1978 Upload Date: 4/6/2012 3:13:35 PM |
| Location: |
Ivy City, DC |
| Author: |
Frank A. Phillips Jr. |
| Categories: |
Roster,Model |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6913(E8A) SOU 6909(E8A) |
| Views: |
817 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southern Railway E8A 6913 - 6909 |
| Description: |
Power for Crescent |
| Photo Date: |
12/29/1978 Upload Date: 4/6/2012 3:10:53 PM |
| Location: |
Ivy City, DC |
| Author: |
Frank A. Phillips Jr. |
| Categories: |
Roster,Model |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6913(E8A) SOU 6909(E8A) |
| Views: |
505 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NB CRESCENT |
| Description: |
Just 10 days after Amtrak took over operation of the CRESCENT, train 20 was making its station stop at Meridian. The trains cosisted of E8A's 6909, 6913 and 6905 and nine cars: baggage-dormitory car 1406, coaches 817, 5285 and 844, coach-lounge 3850, diner 8382, and 10-6 sleepers 2002 DAN RIVER, 2860 TYE RIVER and 2862 FRENCH BROAD RIVER. Except for the Amtrak baggage-dormitory car and the ex-Southern coach-lounge, the train looks much as it did when it was the SOUTHERN CRESCENT. Cars 5285, 3850, 8382, 2860 and 2862 were lettered SOUTHERN but wore Amtrak numbers, while car 817, 844 and 2002 still had their Southern lettering and numbers. |
| Photo Date: |
2/10/1979 Upload Date: 10/21/2007 3:39:34 PM |
| Location: |
Meridian, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 6909(E8A) SOU 6913(E8A) SOU 6905(E8A) |
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1994 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Southern 6909 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
4/1/1979 Upload Date: 2/17/2023 9:39:13 AM |
| Location: |
Arlington, VA |
| Author: |
Dick Leonhardt |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SOU 6909(E8A) |
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52 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Amtrak Crescent, southbound, April, 1979 |
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| Photo Date: |
12/31/2005 Upload Date: 1/4/2006 10:06:35 AM |
| Location: |
Purvis, MS |
| Author: |
John Sita |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SOU 6909(E8A) |
| Views: |
644 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southern Crescent, NOUPT, July, 1978 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
12/31/2005 Upload Date: 1/3/2006 2:07:51 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
John Sita |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SOU 6909(E8A) |
| Views: |
698 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Southern Crescent, northbound, summer of 1974 |
| Description: |
That little boy is my cousin. I think the train stopped in town. |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/2005 Upload Date: 1/1/2006 12:31:17 AM |
| Location: |
Purvis, MS |
| Author: |
John Sita |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SOU 6909(E8A) |
| Views: |
1154 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Southern Crescent, northbound, July, 1978 |
| Description: |
We chased the train up to Slidell - it's a good thing the RR trestle across the lake had a low speed limit. |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/2005 Upload Date: 1/3/2006 2:11:18 PM |
| Location: |
Slidell, LA |
| Author: |
John Sita |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
SOU 6909(E8A) |
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958 Comments: 1 |
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