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Seaboard Motive Power by Warren L Calloway and Paul K Wither
Seaboard Motive Power by Warren L Calloway and Paul K Withers
Hard Cover with dust jacket. NSome very minor damage to the edges of the dust jacket.
Copyright 1988
FIRST PRINTING Three Thousand
256 pages.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Motive Power History
Switchers
ALCO Roadswitchers - RSC2,RS2,RSC3,RS3 Early EMD Roadswitchers - GP7,GP9,GP18 EMD Freight Cabs - FTA,FTB,F3
ALCO Freight Cabs - FA1,FB1
Baldwin Freight Cabs - DR12-8-3000
Late EMD Roadswitchers - GP30,GP35,GP40 Late ALCO Roadswitchers - RS11,C420 SEABOARD AIR LINE in COLOR
GE Roadswitchers - U3OB
Dual Service EMD Roadswitchers - SDP35 Early EMD Passenger Cabs - E4,E4B.E6 EMD Passenger Cabs - E7,E7B,E8,E9 Baldwin Passenger Cabs - DR6-4-1500 Motor Cars
Odds and Ends
Paint Schemes
INTRODUCTION
The SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILROAD was, at the time of the merger with the Atlantic Coast Line, a 4,122 mile road stretching from Richmond, Virginia to Miami, Florida with other major lines through Atlanta, Georgia to Birmingham, Alabama and Savannah, Georgia to Montgomery, Alabama. SAL's lines also criss-crossed Florida serving Tampa, St. Petersburg and Tallahassee as well as lines in Georgia to Macon and Columbus. The operating "Hub of the Seaboard" was Hamlet, North Carolina. With five lines radiating out of Hamlet, it was the logical point for SAL's only hump classification yard and was a major shop facility. Other major yards and shops were located at Jacksonville, Savannah, Tampa, Hialeah, Atlanta, and Portsmouth.
The Seaboard's roots reached back into the very early days of railroad construction with the most ancient forebearer being the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad, chartered in Virginia in 1832. The Portsmouth and Roanoke began to lay rails toward the Roanoke River and Weldon, N.C. in 1833 and reached that point in 1836. Also part of the SAL was Florida's first rail line, the Tallahassee Railroad completed in 1836 from Tallahassee to Port Leon, Florida, a distance of 22 miles. This road, along with the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, which began serving those North Carolina communities in 1840, would later become major parts of the SEABOARD. By 1860, Seaboard predecessors had built 325 miles of line in Florida, linking Jacksonville with the state capital in Tallahassee, the Atlantic port of Fernandina with the Gulf port of Cedar Key. The Raleigh and Gaston and the Portsmouth and Roanoke were joined to provide a through route from Portsmouth to the North Carolina capital. Also during these two decades, a 112 mile line from Wilmington to Rockingham, North Carolina was constructed by SAL predecessors. The Wilmington line included a 78.8 mile length of tangent track, which even today is the longest straight stretch of track in the United States.
At the end of the century, the Seaboard Air Line system began to come together. Initially, the system was simply an association of connecting lines, each independent, but this was the beginning of through service over their lines. The five companies that comprised the Seaboard Air Line association extended from Portsmouth to Atlanta and from Wilmington to Rutherfordton, North Carolina. Shortly after the beginning of the century, this association took on the corporate identity of the Seaboard Air Line. Additional consolidations, acquisitions and mergers extended the Seaboard's trackage into Georgia, Florida and Alabama. In all, 86 predecessor companies were joined to form what was now the Seaboard Air Line Railroad.
This book, which covers the Seaboard Air Line motive power from the first gas electrics in 1917 until the consolidation of the Seaboard and long time rival Atlantic Coast Line, on July 1, 1967, provides a view of the diesel history of the Seaboard. During the years covered, SAL slowly at first, began to replace the steam locomotive with a varied and interesting diesel fleet. From the streamline E4s on the "Meteor", "Star", "Comet" and "Orange Blossom" to the modern General Electric U3OBs and EMD GP4Os just months before the closing of the history book on SAL locomotives, the road's roster was inhabited by an interesting assortment of locomotives.
Every effort was made to thoroughly document in photographs, as much of the history of Seaboard's diesels as could be accumulated. Also roster data and disposition records were checked with many knowledgeable sources to provide as accurate a record as possible, but as we are all aware, inaccuracies do appear in railroad publications as well as "official" railroad documents.
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