RailPictures.Net Photo: SOU 6911H Southern Railway EMD E8(A) at Alexandria, Virginia by Donald Haskel

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» Southern Railway (more..)
» EMD E8(A) (more..)

» Above station platform
» Alexandria, Virginia, USA (more..)
» August, 1972

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» Donald Haskel (more..)
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"Board" crackles over the radio. The extraordinarily long, flawless Southern Crescent is OK to go. Two blasts from chime horn makes kids block their ears. Four polished gold and green E units rev up. In no time the varnish disappears from sight and makes me yearn to go to New Orleans.

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Classic Cab Units Album created by member arthur mills	Album Views: 170,791
Photos of North America's favorite First Generation locomotives. EMD, ALCO, Baldwin; essentially anything that represents the OG wide cab diesel locomotive

Southern Crescent Album created by member Ellis Simon	Album Views: 5,273
The Southern Railway was one of three US railroads that decided not to join Amtrak in 1971. Its flagship train, the Southern Crescent, Washington - New Orleans, set the standard for passenger rail service in the US for most of the 1970s.

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