Aberdeen Shop Scene
How about another from this day?
The Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad is the rarest of shortlines. It is neither a former Class 1 line spun off nor is it part of a large shortline holding company. Seemingly lifted straight from the pages of Beebe and Clegg's 'Mixed Train Daily' it is still a locally owned and independent railroad headquartered out of a tidy historic two story Federal Style brick building built in 1904 in Aberdeen. Chartered in 1892 it was two decades later before the rails finally reached this point, their furthest extent, and they have remained in service since.
I will not go into too much more history here, but this road is worthy of more study. If you're interested start with the road's own web site: www.aberdeen-rockfish.com/html/a_r_history.html
AR 2486 is a CF7 acquired from the Blue Mountain & Reading. It was originally an F7A built in August 1959 as Santa Fe 259C. It was rebuilt in the AT&SF's Cleburne Shops in 1975. She is resting quietly inside the tiny brick century old shop building that's shoehorned inside the wye located off Fayetteville Street a couple blocks from the railroad's headquarters building on Main Street.
To see her at work at the other end of the railroad 45 miles away check out this insane consist: flic.kr/p/2kKLSZe
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Thursday April 7, 2016
Aberdeen Shop Scene
How about another from this day?
The Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad is the rarest of shortlines. It is neither a former Class 1 line spun off nor is it part of a large shortline holding company. Seemingly lifted straight from the pages of Beebe and Clegg's 'Mixed Train Daily' it is still a locally owned and independent railroad headquartered out of a tidy historic two story Federal Style brick building built in 1904 in Aberdeen. Chartered in 1892 it was two decades later before the rails finally reached this point, their furthest extent, and they have remained in service since.
I will not go into too much more history here, but this road is worthy of more study. If you're interested start with the road's own web site: www.aberdeen-rockfish.com/html/a_r_history.html
AR 2486 is a CF7 acquired from the Blue Mountain & Reading. It was originally an F7A built in August 1959 as Santa Fe 259C. It was rebuilt in the AT&SF's Cleburne Shops in 1975. She is resting quietly inside the tiny brick century old shop building that's shoehorned inside the wye located off Fayetteville Street a couple blocks from the railroad's headquarters building on Main Street.
To see her at work at the other end of the railroad 45 miles away check out this insane consist: flic.kr/p/2kKLSZe
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Thursday April 7, 2016