The purple and aluminum ACL E6AA sets 511 & 519 leading the southbound "West Coast Champion" has stopped at Winter Park, Fla., station on April 10, 1952. ACL E6 511 received a new EMD E8 nose after a wreck in 1950. ACL 511 was wrecked at Screven, Georgia on November 27, 1950 ACL Photo Al Chione, from my collection.
What did passenger trains look like before Amtrak in America, and Via Rail in Canada? Find out in this album with 2,700+ Historical Photos from early passenger trains of North America from the 1900's up until the early years of Government passenger trains
A colorful and diverse group of railroads operated passenger trains in the South that ranged from speedy limiteds like the Panama Limited and Silver Meteor to regional and branchline services.