A colorful assortment of power sits at the Ivy City Engine Terminal in Washington DC on a September day in 1975. Front and center is Southern Railway E8A 6905 (ex-SOU 2928, built 9/51), still in ... (more)
Day layover at Ivy City, awaiting the evening's Southern Crescent.
As the Southern Crescent is seviced at the old Union Station site - Seaboard Coast Line GP40-2 #1646 heads east.
What a difference a paint job makes. Southern E8s are parked with the Amtrak "Bloody Nose" paint scheme. Honeywell Pentax H1a;
Engine change for Southern Crescent. Honeywell Pentax H1a
The northbound Southern Crescent is approaching the first stop at Slidell,La
