Starting to look a little frayed into the Bi-centennial year, the E-8s still sound great. Southbound.
Running long hood forward as good taste (and safety) intended, this Southbound passes the doomed Stockbridge station. The Southern sign has already vanished.
The trim ex-FEC Pacific lifts a good sized train out of Macon. My pace car, a 1950 Buick Special, awaits to join the chase on the right.
The job is not over yet... Hostler Randy Ridgely works on cleaning up the Pacific after a run to Gainesville.
Passenger train rep and conductor try to work things out as the Crescent gets ready to depart northbound.
A pleasing sight was this matched set of four green E8s as the Claytor retro-paint brightened the new era of the Southern.
A black E8 still holds the point on the Crescent as it slides into the Brookwood Station in Atlanta. To the left and rear is Atlantic Steel's siding leading to the Atlantic Steel complex - now ra... (more)
We are now almost a year into Amtrak, but there is little evidence on the ready track for Washington Union Station. B&O, RF&P, SCL are all in Amtrak while the Southern continues to hold out.
Former C of Ga RS-3 144 has now been marked for the Southern. 144 was a frequent caller on the Macon-Athens line.
Another view of the dissolution of the magnificent, if tired Atlanta Terminal Station. In better days such civic vandalism would have been a hiss and a byword, but Atlanta's leadership has always... (more)
Headed up to Gainesville.
The Gainesville Midland crew has parked their own personal box seat to watch the S&A Pacific dig its way out of Gainesville back to Atlanta.