Santa Comes Early. The Santa Train, covering the former Clinchfield Railroad between Shelbiana, Kentucky and Kingsport, Tennessee, traditionally operates on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. But that does not mean that the big man himself cannot drop off gifts a bit ahead of Christmas. For the 75th Anniversary run, CSX restored and repainted CRR 800 (built as an F3, rebuilt as an F7), the first diesel owned by the Clinchfield Railroad, and SD45 CRR 3432 (née-SCL 2024), which in reality was never part of the CRR roster, but makes an excellent stand in for the purpose, in cooperation with the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum. On the day of the event, Saturday, November 18, 2017, a familiar figure visited the cab at the end of the day while the train was sitting in Kingsport, TN before heading south.
Photos of North America's favorite First Generation locomotives. EMD, ALCO, Baldwin; essentially anything that represents the OG wide cab diesel locomotive
