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12/03/1977 at John Sevier Yard in Knoxville, TN. SOU 1114 is an SW-7.

Former SAL 617, a GP-40 is seen at Atlanta, GA in April 1984 hastily renumbered SBD 6688. She was one of 51 purchased by the SAL.

Here are two slides from Washington, DC with cars as taken by my Grandfather. Capitol Building is first and the Lincoln Memorial second.

I came across some interesting 35mm Kodachrome slides while cleaning out my late mother's home. I'm trying to figure out when they were taken and I'm figuring that it was in the WW-II era, late 1930s to mid 1940s. Modern Kodachrome was introduced in 1935. I'm pretty sure that the top image...

As part of cleaning out my late mother's home, I'm scanning the family 35mm slides. My grandparents retired in south Florida and once a year, we'd make the long trip south to visit them. From 1966 is this shot as taken by my Dad of a little tourist train that ran through the Hugh Taylor Birch...

L&N C-420 1366 (former Seaboard Air Line) at Knoxville, TN, October 1978.

SOU GP-38-2 5046 at Columbus, GA on 05/25/1985. [Kodachrome, Nikon N2020]

A northbound Milwaukee Road freight crosses the C&NW at Des Plaines, IL in '75 or '76. Sigh -- F Units, cabooses and semaphore signals, all gone and even the Milwaukee Road itself.

From about 1975, what I think is Train 599 is stopped and awaiting a commuter train to pass by at the end of triple track at Barrington, IL. 599 was a Chicago => Madison, WI manifest which was often heavy with tonnage for the big Chevy plant at Janesville, WI, now closed.

July 1978 at Ringoes, NJ finds Black River & Western's No. 60 at rest. She's a former Great Western Rwy. (of Colorado) sugar hauler and was built by Alco in 1937.

On a frigid 12/21/1976, a C&NW freight prepares to detour south on the EJ&E at Barrington, IL after a derailment. [Plus-X, Nikkormat FTn]

As seen this afternoon in Cayce, SC, Norfolk Southern Train 191 has just departed Columbia and is on its way west to Macon, GA. The NS line in the foreground once ran 130 miles south to a point near Savannah, GA. Only a 20 Mile stub remains today.

EMD SW-7, SW-8 and SW-9. SW-7 PB&NE 51 [former PRR] at Bethlehem, PA 08/1980), SW-8 CR 8682 [former LV] at Allentown, PA 10/1983) and SW-9 (CR 9010 [former Erie] at Bethlehem, PA 07/1982).

L&N GP-38-2s in fall and winter. The 4081 is at Tullahoma, TN in November 1978 and the 4067 is chillin' at Knoxville, TN in February 1979. [Nikon EL-2, Kodachrome]

In recognition of crashton's Benny Hill avatar, here's a Conrail westbound working hard at Bennington, PA as it nears the summit at Gallitzin. It's July 1980 and the former four track PRR main is still intact, but it'll soon to be reduced to three.

Two roster shots from 02/14/1976 at the MILW's big yard outside of Chicago in Bensenville, IL.

Trolleys are trains too, right? From 1975, here's Car 26 operating at a Buckingham, PA museum. Sadly, the site fell into decay and this fine car was destroyed by vandalism and fire, then scrapped.:( What remained of the collection was gathered up and sent to Scranton, PA's Electric City...

Another E popped up in my negatives, this an E-9A at Fox Lake, IL in 1975.

Into the Wayback Machine again to March 1975 at Chicago's Union Station. [Nikkormat FTn]

Stepped away from the Wayback Machine this morning and caught local train CSX F765 passing Columbia, SC's Amtrak station. Tropical Storm Zeta is bringing drizzle and the station canopy was a welcome spot.