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Newfoundland and Labrador offer great opportunities to explore these ancient 10,000 year old chunks of ice that take approximately three years to float from Greenland. This image is taken from land, not from the air.
The c. 1968 Atlantic Coast Line red caboose sits on tracks behind the historic Dundee Train Depot Museum. Located on the lawn, an inviting space under a shade tree, are tables and benches.
A lot of Southeast railroad history in this shot - ACL E3 501 passing the former Southern shops in Spencer, NC
“She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.”
Holly Black
ACL Whitcomb Locomotive No. 508 on display at the Robert W. Wiilaford Raiload Museum located in Historic Downtown Plant City in Hillsborough County Florida U.S.A.
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The Pee Dee River Railway rolls through blooming cotton fields near Tatum, South Carolina behind a mismatched pair of GP16 rebuilds after picking up a sizeable train at the interchange in McColl. Both of the GP16s were originally GP7s built for the Seaboard Air Line and were two of 155 GP16s rebuilt at the Uceta shops in Tampa at the end of the 1970s. The PDRR has four GP16s on its roster.
The Pee Dee River crosses Bigfoot Road outside of Bennettsville, South Carolina with the interchange train from McColl.
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In 1939, the Atlantic Coast Line ordered two E3 models, numbered 500 and 501, for service on The Champion between NYC and Miami, Florida. The 501 remained in service until 1970, operating over 6 million miles. This distinction made the 501 the most traveled E unit in US history. It is pictured here, making a rare appearance leading the NCTM excursion train
Missouri Pacific, MP SD40 #3201 Seaboard Systems SBD SD40-2 #8023 ACL GP40 #6653 with a southbound freight at Jacksonville, Arkansas. June 2, 1984. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
The Pee Dee River arrives Bennettsville, South Carolina to switch the covered hoppers on the right before continuing down to Domtar Paper. Power for the train is a pair of ex-Seaboard GP16s rebuilt at the Uceta shops in Tampa. Lead engine #1764 is painted in the livery of parent company, Aberdeen and Rockfish, which has owned the Pee Dee River since it was originally sold by CSX in the late 1980s. The trailing engine, #1842, wears the original PDRR scheme.
A CSX SD70MAC passes under the old ACL signals at CP Charlie Baker as it shoves a local back into Rocky Mount Yard.
The Pee Dee River closes in on Domtar Paper near Dyers Hill, South Carolina behind an ex-Seaboard GP16 pair.
USSC #504 rolls through the control point at Keela with sugar cane for the mill at Clewiston. The sky is hazy from cane fires and farm hands are busy plowing the fields; my day in the sugar fields is coming to an end.
CSXT 533 leads the New Wales turn job past one of the last US&S Y pattern signals in Florida. The Bone Valley was one of the last holdouts for classic SAL and ACL-era signals in Florida, but CSX finally replaced them last year. This is the Bone Valley subdivision to Agricola in southern Polk County, which was previously operated by the ACL and once connected to the railroad's Lakeland-Fort Myers line at Fort Meade.
A CSX local passes the connecting track at the Plant City diamonds as it heads west to Uceta Yard in Tampa. Both engines are part of a program testing soybean oil-based fuel, which has reportedly cut emissions by 20%.
The Florida Northern is seen switching its yard in Ocala, Florida on former Atlantic Coast Line rails. The power is #1802, a former Illinois Central GP11 which was previously owned by the LIRC, and #60, a chopped-nose ex-N&W GP9. The FNOR and its affiliates, FCEN and FMID, were owned by the Pinsly Railroad Company of Massachusetts since the late 1980s. All three railroads were sold to Regional Rail LLC in 2019.
Atlantic Coast Line R-1 class Baldwin 4-8-4 steam locomotive # 1808 is seen in the yard at Richmond, Virginia, 1939. These large modern steam locomotives built by Baldwin in 1938, had some counter balance weight problems, but after a re-balancing task was accomplished by removing weight from each driver, the problem was solved. These locomotives proved to be very fast and powerful after all of the balancing problems were solved. They were capable of maintaining track speed and more with up to 21 heavyweight friction bearing equipped passenger cars. Notice too that these locomotives did utilize the Baldwin Disc Drivers. Also notice the large tender with a capacity for 24,000 gallons of water and 27 tons of coal all riding on the huge 8 wheel trucks required to carry this tremendous weight. In the background behind the R-1 locomotive's smoke box is seen a portion of an old ACL Baldwin built 1911, P class Pacific, once first class main line passenger train power.
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This mural on a former general merchandise store built in 1912 in Yemassee commemorates the wartime railroad that marked the beginning of life as a United States marine for more than 500,000 recruits. The railroad was owned by Atlantic Coast Line, and the Marine Corps ended its lease with the transportation company in 1965. Amtrak and CSX now utilize the railway.
The vibrant storefront now serves as a local church and boasts with artistic pride the historic rite-of-passage that took place outside its doors.
CSX Q409-18 crossing over the Ashley River (milepost A. 394.7) in Charleston, SC with 1776 (Honoring Our Veterans) and 3194 (Honoring Our Law Enforcement) leading
ROCKY MOUNT NC: Actually, this old gal got a fantastic $10,000,000 facelift and was rededicated in 2004 on her 100th birthday. Wadda gem!
Saint John Parish Church Cemetery in Saint John was the preferred burial place of the early Barbados sugar plantation owners. St. John built in 1836 is a Barbadian version of the Gothic parish church and a semi-rural Parish high above the East (windward) Coast of Barbados on top of Hackleton's Cliff. The plaque on the bench reads: "In Loving Memory of Raymond Glen Barker From England 23.12.52 - 13.07.86, He Loved This Place" Print Size 13x19 inches. Happy Bench Monday
This grand building used to be the passenger depot for the Southern Railway and the Atlantic Coast Line in Columbia, South Carolina. There were at least four tracks through here and various platforms for the passenger trains. A walkway set out from where the staircase is that took you above the railroad tracks. This was all before my time before the number of passenger trains in Columbia dwindled down to two total at the "new" Amtrak station on the CSX.
It is now a California Dreaming Restaurant and Bar