Seaboard Coast Line southbound local freight train, led by GE U18B locomotive 363, with long hood forward, is heading to Tampa on the old S-Line while passing ACL-SAL passenger & SAL freight station at Plant City, Florida, 5-9-1976
Seaboard Coast Line southbound local freight train, led by GE U18B locomotive 363, with long hood forward, is heading to Tampa on the old S-Line while passing ACL-SAL passenger & SAL freight station at Plant City, Florida, 5-9-1976, Fred Clark, Jr. The track at the diamond that goes left to right is the old A-Line, left to West and right to East. Once the freight train crosses the diamond and travels about 400 feet, it enters a sharp curve to the left which will then head the train to the West and to Tampa, not that far away. As for the combined passenger station building, the platform canopy on both platforms has been removed and the windows boarded up. The SAL freight station building only has the brick office structure remaining because the freight and storage platform and covered roof area has been removed. Years later the city will decide to make the old combined station into a museum, then rebuild and refurbish the structure and also move the remaining portion of the SAL freight station to the other side of the track and rebuild it too as part of the display. Years later they even built an elevated photographers platform at Plant City station by a new diamond and wide radius curve to Tampa which was installed. If you click on the photo to enlarge it you can see the engineer leaning out of his cab window looking backwards. Several Amtrak trains pass this station area daily in both directions on the A-Line.
This photo is from the Fred Clark Jr. photo collection, courtesy of Mark Zelinski. Any credit for this photo must be provided to the original photographer Fred Clark Jr.
Copyright Disclaimer under Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for the purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
Seaboard Coast Line southbound local freight train, led by GE U18B locomotive 363, with long hood forward, is heading to Tampa on the old S-Line while passing ACL-SAL passenger & SAL freight station at Plant City, Florida, 5-9-1976
Seaboard Coast Line southbound local freight train, led by GE U18B locomotive 363, with long hood forward, is heading to Tampa on the old S-Line while passing ACL-SAL passenger & SAL freight station at Plant City, Florida, 5-9-1976, Fred Clark, Jr. The track at the diamond that goes left to right is the old A-Line, left to West and right to East. Once the freight train crosses the diamond and travels about 400 feet, it enters a sharp curve to the left which will then head the train to the West and to Tampa, not that far away. As for the combined passenger station building, the platform canopy on both platforms has been removed and the windows boarded up. The SAL freight station building only has the brick office structure remaining because the freight and storage platform and covered roof area has been removed. Years later the city will decide to make the old combined station into a museum, then rebuild and refurbish the structure and also move the remaining portion of the SAL freight station to the other side of the track and rebuild it too as part of the display. Years later they even built an elevated photographers platform at Plant City station by a new diamond and wide radius curve to Tampa which was installed. If you click on the photo to enlarge it you can see the engineer leaning out of his cab window looking backwards. Several Amtrak trains pass this station area daily in both directions on the A-Line.
This photo is from the Fred Clark Jr. photo collection, courtesy of Mark Zelinski. Any credit for this photo must be provided to the original photographer Fred Clark Jr.
Copyright Disclaimer under Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for the purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.