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Locomotives of the Seaboard System Railroad of the South by Paul Carleton w/ DJ
Locomotives of the Seaboard System Railroad of the South by Paul Carleton
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 1987 FIRST PRINTING TEAR in the back dust jacket
207 pages
LESS than four years is not a long time for a railroad to exist. The Seaboard System was born from the Family Lines confederation of roads on January 1, 1983 and then merged with CSX Corporation's Chessie System on July 1, 1986 to become the rail arm of a multi-mode transportation conglomerate.
Four years, however, is just the tip of this rail iceberg, or, better said, the icing on a cake that goes back to the golden railroad age with its Atlantic Coast Lines and Louisville & Nash-vines and so on. Looking over such a rail picture in the light of the merger developments of the 1980's shows the subject from a new perspective.
Our work is mainly locomotive oriented in nature with the emphasis on pictures to tell the story. We first travel back to get an idea of what roads like the Clinchfield and Seaboard Air Line were like in steam days and then watch the transition to diesel. The road by road individuality of steam power is replaced by the sameness of stock diesel power right out of the builder's catalog. Here, a certain unifying process was initiated which today sees some of these earliest units working together in unity in their common grey livery. Why grey? It is a very old tradition in the south.
A look at the steam of these several roads shows a road by road uniqueness tailored to fit axle loadings and grades and the like. Then there is a bit of styling flair to top things off that forever makes, for example, a NC&StL "yellow jacket" 4-8-4 unmistakable.
Contents
INTRODUCTION Page 7
ATLANTIC COAST LINEPages 9 - 20
MapPage 6
Atlanta, Birmingham & CoastPage 8
CLINCHFIELDPages 21 - 29
MapPage 21
GEORGIA RAILROAD
WEST POINT ROUTEPages 30 - 35
MapPage 31
LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLEPages 37 - 53
MapPage 36
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Pages 54 - 57
MapPage 55
MononPages 58 - 61
MapsPage 59
SEABOARD AIR LINEPages 63 - 81
MapPage 62
SEABOARD COAST LINEPages 83 - 117
MapPage 82
Durham & Southern
Piedmont & Northern
Winston-Salem SouthboundPages 118 - 119
MapPage 119
FAMILY LINESPages 121 - 142
MapPage 120
Richmond, Fredricksburg & PotomacPages 143 - 148
MapPage 143
SEABOARD SYSTEMPages 149 - 183
Auto-trainPages 184 - 185
AmtrakPages 186 - 193
Florida CentralPages 194 - 195
CSX CORPORATIONPages 196 - 198
CHESSIE SYSTEMPages 199 - 205
SEABOARD SYSTEM ROSTERSPages 206 - 207
ACKNOWLEDGMENTSPage 208
ABBREVIATIONSPage 208
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