Four SCL GP40's in the split-image paint scheme handle piggyback train No. 175 at Skelton, Va. in March 1969. All of the images seen in this photograph are now gone. CSX abandoned and removed this portion of the "S" Line in 1987. The right-of-way is now overgrown with trees. The farmhouse and outbuildings on the left no longer stand, and the bridge from which I took this photo was demolished, the cut was filled in, and the highway re-graded and re-paved. SCL GP40 1542 was wrecked in 1971.
Photos taken in the Deep South--primarily Alabama and Georgia--from the 1970s to the early 2000s. Featured railroads include the ICG, the West Point Route, SCL, Southern, Frisco, and even KCS.
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just heritage schemes, not just commemorative schemes - this album is devoted to some of the world's most interesting paint schemes, past or present.
just as the 1970s were a good era in virginia railroading, the 1950s and 1960s were just as colorful as the 1970s were. this a tribute to the days of simple railroading and why it served as a basis of what it is today.
