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Southern Crescent, August, 1978
Title:  Southern Crescent, August, 1978
Description:  The Seabrook drawbridge near the Lakefront. I still remember the clatter across the bridge.
Photo Date:  12/31/2005  Upload Date: 1/3/2006 2:08:51 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  John Sita
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6908(E8A)
Views:  1083   Comments: 3
SCL 523
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)
Views:  1322   Comments: 0
SOU #1
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)
Views:  334   Comments: 0
SOU 6909
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. Todal'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 foregrmund 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)
Views:  1618   Comments: 3
Southern Railway TMain No. 2
Title:  Southern Railway TMain 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 stot. 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:  JAMDS H. SELZER, JR. image
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  496   Comments: 0
SOU E8A!6909
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 hmnoring Southern Signers of the Declaration of Independence. This shot of the 6909 outside of the New Arleans Union Passenger Terminal diesel shop includes all sorts of details, including the General Electric alternators on each axle which wewe 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)
Views:  1410   Comments: 1
SOU 6909 George Wythe of Virginia
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: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  662   Comments: 0
The Southbound <I>SOUTHERN CRESCENT</I>
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)
Views:  475   Comments: 0
SOU 6909
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: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  658   Comments: 1
Southern 6909
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)
Views:  287   Comments: 0
Southern Railway E8A 6913 & 6909
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:  965   Comments: 1
Southern Railway E8A 6913 - 6909
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:  617   Comments: 0
Southern 6909
Title:  Southern 6909
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/1/1979  Upload Date: 2/17/2023 9:39:13 AM
Location:  Arlington, VA
Author:  Dick Leonhardt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  136   Comments: 0
Amtrak Crescent, southbound, April, 1979
Title:  Amtrak Crescent, southbound, April, 1979
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2005  Upload Date: 1/4/2006 10:06:35 AM
Location:  Purvis, MS
Author:  John Sita
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  736   Comments: 1
Southern Crescent, NOUPT, July, 1978
Title:  Southern Crescent, NOUPT, July, 1978
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2005  Upload Date: 1/3/2006 2:07:51 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  John Sita
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  794   Comments: 2
Southern Crescent, northbound, summer of 1974
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: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  1244   Comments: 3
Southern Crescent, northbound, July, 1978
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: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  1065   Comments: 1
SOUTHERN TRAIN OVER THE POTOMAC
Title:  SOUTHERN TRAIN OVER THE POTOMAC
Description:  Train is nearing Union Station - Potomac River Bridge, Washington, DC
Photo Date:  8/25/1955  Upload Date: 3/15/2008 10:57:41 AM
Location:  Washington, DC
Author:  EDWARD J. OZOG
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6910(E8A)
Views:  697   Comments: 2
SOUTHERN IN WASHINGTON  -  1957
Title:  SOUTHERN IN WASHINGTON - 1957
Description:  SOU 6910 at the station
Photo Date:  5/3/1957  Upload Date: 3/16/2008 8:17:09 AM
Location:  Washington, DC
Author:  EDWARD J. OZOG
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6910(E8A)
Views:  826   Comments: 0
SOU 6910
Title:  SOU 6910
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/1969  Upload Date: 5/3/2007 4:02:57 PM
Location:  Washington, DC
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6910(E8A)
Views:  752   Comments: 3
SOU 6910
Title:  SOU 6910
Description:  4 unit power off eastbound Kentucky Derby Special.
Photo Date:  5/7/1972  Upload Date: 10/14/2020 8:53:04 PM
Location:  Salisbury, NC
Author:  Dennis Mize
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6910(E8A)
Views:  147   Comments: 0
Four Southern E-Units
Title:  Four Southern E-Units
Description:  Freshly-painted Southern E8A's 6911, 6909, 6912 and 6910 were at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal engine house, along with ICG E9A 4034 in Amtrak colors and NOUPT SW8 No. 3. The Southern units came in three days earlier on on 20-car special for a convention of the railroad's attorneys.
Photo Date:  3/17/1973  Upload Date: 9/11/2010 3:32:14 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Paul H. Oliver, Jr.
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SOU 6910(E8A)
Views:  1770   Comments: 1
Southern 6910
Title:  Southern 6910
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/6/1974  Upload Date: 10/15/2019 2:45:37 AM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6910(E8A)
Views:  514   Comments: 4
Southern Railway No. 2
Title:  Southern Railway No. 2
Description:  The fireman on Southern Railway train number 2, the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT, was leaning out of the cab of E8A 6910 to grab a set of train orders out of the train order stand at N.E. Tower in New Orleans. The stand also held orders for the train's brakeman and the conductor. Train No. 2 was nine miles and 25 minutes into its journey to New York and was powered by E8A's 6910, 6900, 6909 and 6903; a typical set of power at the time. N.E. Tower was built in 1953 as a part of the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal project, but the first tower here was built in 1899 to protect the crossing of the Louisville & Nashville with the New Orleans & Northeastern. The tower was closed on 12 September 1990, when control of the crossing was transferred to the Norfolk Southern operator in Birmingham.
Photo Date:  6/23/1976  Upload Date: 1/5/2018 4:45:28 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6910(E8A)
Views:  1126   Comments: 1
SOU 6910
Title:  SOU 6910
Description:  Southern Crescent
Photo Date:  12/1/1976  Upload Date: 1/20/2008 3:37:23 PM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Craig Mashburn
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6910(E8A)
Views:  886   Comments: 3
Southern 6910
Title:  Southern 6910
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/1/1977  Upload Date: 2/17/2023 9:36:28 AM
Location:  Union Station, DC
Author:  Dick Leonhardt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6910(E8A)
Views:  121   Comments: 0
Southern 6910
Title:  Southern 6910
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/1/1977  Upload Date: 2/17/2023 9:32:14 AM
Location:  Union Station, DC
Author:  Dick Leonhardt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6910(E8A)
Views:  106   Comments: 0
Southern Railway E8A 6910
Title:  Southern Railway E8A 6910
Description:  photographed at the Ivy City locomotive terminal
Photo Date:  10/23/1978  Upload Date: 1/11/2010 6:08:39 PM
Location:  Washington, DC
Author:  Bill Wilcox
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6910(E8A)
Views:  634   Comments: 3
Southern Crescent northbound
Title:  Southern Crescent northbound
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2005  Upload Date: 1/1/2006 12:31:34 AM
Location:  Purvis, MS
Author:  John Sita
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6910(E8A)
Views:  647   Comments: 1
Southern E8s 6915 and 6911
Title:  Southern E8s 6915 and 6911
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/17/1968  Upload Date: 5/4/2007 7:42:10 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6915(E8A) SOU 6911(E8A)
Views:  1148   Comments: 1
SOU 6911
Title:  SOU 6911
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/17/1968  Upload Date: 5/4/2007 7:42:03 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6911(E8A)
Views:  736   Comments: 0
SOU 6911
Title:  SOU 6911
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/21/1969  Upload Date: 5/4/2007 7:42:01 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6911(E8A)
Views:  464   Comments: 0
SOU 6911 on the Southern Crescent at Birmingham
Title:  SOU 6911 on the Southern Crescent at Birmingham
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/6/1974  Upload Date: 2/21/2013 5:37:41 PM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Bob Hasty
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6911(E8A)
Views:  365   Comments: 0
SOU 6911
Title:  SOU 6911
Description:  Picture was taken by Harv Khan(Deceased) I am posting so everyone can enjoy his excellent work
Photo Date:  12/30/1975  Upload Date: 8/6/2008 10:34:52 PM
Location:  Washington, DC
Author:  Crow T. Robot
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6911(E8A)
Views:  407   Comments: 0
SOU 6911 John Penn of North Carolina
Title:  SOU 6911 John Penn 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 7:14:42 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Frank Greene
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6911(E8A)
Views:  642   Comments: 0
Southern No. 2
Title:  Southern No. 2
Description:  Southern E8A 6911 and three mates were on the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT at L&N JUNCTION in New Orleans. Train No. 2 was seven-and-a-half miles and 14 minutes out of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. The tracks in the foreground were the south end of the Louisville & Nashville's main line, with an interchange track on the right. (approximate date)
Photo Date:  6/30/1976  Upload Date: 9/22/2017 4:47:54 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6911(E8A)
Views:  1028   Comments: 0
SOU 6911
Title:  SOU 6911
Description:  A quartet of E-units lead the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT under the cantilevered signals at the Frenchman Street crossover, on its way out of New Orleans. The train has four consecutively-numbered E8A's (6911, 6912, 6913 and 6914) and 12 cars: baggage-dormitory 710 (running backwards), coaches 833, 846, 832, 844, 836, 819 and 820, diner 3306, 10-6 sleepers 2010 RAPIDAN RIVER and Amtrak 2626 PACIFIC PLATEAU, and dome coach 1613.
Photo Date:  7/23/1976  Upload Date: 5/19/2009 5:24:46 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6911(E8A)
Views:  2255   Comments: 1
SOU 6911
Title:  SOU 6911
Description:  Power for the Soithern Crescent
Photo Date:  4/1/1977  Upload Date: 4/23/2020 10:38:08 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6911(E8A)
Views:  224   Comments: 1
Southern 6911
Title:  Southern 6911
Description:  Just starting its long journey to New York, the Southern Crescent leaves New Orleans on February 28, 1978.
Photo Date:  2/28/1978  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 10:52:13 AM
Location:  New Orleans - NOUPT, LA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6911(E8A)
Views:  315   Comments: 0
Southern 6911
Title:  Southern 6911
Description:  The Southern Crescent leaves New Orleans in February 1978.
Photo Date:  2/28/1978  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 10:53:17 AM
Location:  New Orleans - NOUPT, LA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6911(E8A)
Views:  308   Comments: 0
Southern 6911
Title:  Southern 6911
Description:  Just before starting its long journey to New York, the Southern Crescent prepares to leave New Orleans on February 28, 1978.
Photo Date:  2/28/1978  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 10:58:08 AM
Location:  New Orleans - NOUPT, LA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6911(E8A)
Views:  279   Comments: 0
SR E-8A 6911
Title:  SR E-8A 6911
Description:  SR E-8A 6911 prepares for an early evening departure of the Southern Crescent at Alexandria Station.
Photo Date:  7/21/1978  Upload Date: 2/21/2016 6:12:59 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6911(E8A)
Views:  305   Comments: 0
SR E-8A 6911
Title:  SR E-8A 6911
Description:  SR E-8A 6911 prepares for an early evening departure of the Southern Crescent at Alexandria Station.
Photo Date:  7/21/1978  Upload Date: 2/21/2016 6:14:49 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6911(E8A)
Views:  283   Comments: 0
SR E-8A 6911
Title:  SR E-8A 6911
Description:  SR E-8A 6911 prepares for an early evening departure of the Southern Crescent at Alexandria Station.
Photo Date:  7/21/1978  Upload Date: 2/21/2016 6:16:17 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6911(E8A)
Views:  302   Comments: 0
Noses
Title:  Noses
Description:  Throughout most of the 1970's one couldn't find Southern E-units at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal during the day, because they came in in the evening and left the next morning. But when Amtrak took over the operation of the CRESCENT on 1 February 1979, it leased all of the Southern remaining E8A's and for the next six months there were always some of these around the engine house, making shots like this possible.
Photo Date:  2/25/1979  Upload Date: 8/2/2010 4:51:16 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SOU 6911(E8A) AMTK 710(P30CH)
Views:  1361   Comments: 1
Amtrak 639 & 638 & 643 & SOU 6911
Title:  Amtrak 639 & 638 & 643 & SOU 6911
Description:  Amtrak 639 and 638 next to 643 all SDP40Fs in Phase I Paint next to SOU 6911 a E8A at Ivy City Engine House during the Spring of 1979
Photo Date:  5/1/1979  Upload Date: 3/13/2006 12:01:57 AM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Bill Moye
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 639(SDP40F) AMTK 638(SDP40F) AMTK 643(SDP40F) SOU 6911(E8A)
Views:  929   Comments: 0
Southern Crescent, southbound, September, 1974 [2]
Title:  Southern Crescent, southbound, September, 1974 [2]
Description:  An FP-7 in the consist - can't make out the number here.
Photo Date:  12/31/2005  Upload Date: 1/3/2006 2:13:05 PM
Location:  Purvis, MS
Author:  John Sita
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6911(E8A) SOU 6913(E8A)
Views:  1443   Comments: 1
SOU 6911
Title:  SOU 6911
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/19/2012  Upload Date: 2/19/2012 6:18:24 PM
Location:  Akron, OH
Author:  Dennis Varian
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6911(E8A)
Views:  399   Comments: 3
Birmingham Special
Title:  Birmingham Special
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/29/1968  Upload Date: 5/4/2007 7:42:04 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6912(E8A)
Views:  1155   Comments: 0
SR 6912A
Title:  SR 6912A
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/13/1973  Upload Date: 6/21/2011 8:33:15 PM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6912(E8A)
Views:  544   Comments: 2


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