More Southern GP50's northbound in Hixson TN. Wish I had taken a shot of that C&C boxcar right behind the power. GP50 in Chattanooga TN The only one of these I got a picture of. They were all but gone from the Southern by the time I got a camera. This one lingered in a storage line longer than most of it's kin. And there there was this. It was used with the wrecker train for a while. I never knew if it was still powered or just either a heater or generator car at this point. Either way, was cool to catch a B unit still in Southern paint and not in a museum.
Man, this is all such super cool stuff @BNSF FAN! When do you reckon these were taken? I found a battered FT-B in oxide red in Spartanburg in November 1989 marked as a scale test car. Neat that you found what looks like an FT-B in full SOU paint.
Between 1983 and 1985 on that last batch sir. The B unit was for sure 1983 as it was one of my first shots with a 35mm camera.
And it's one with the optional fifth porthole, too: That fifth porthole was used for the hostler controls on units that had the optional standard couplers on both ends. That's a neat catch.
Very interesting that it has lights for the walkway-one above the highnose, one on the dynamic brake grid, and one by the radiators. I've never seen that!
Well, I have 9 more old scans I can post. Here's the first 4. These will probably be the least interesting of them all. All in Chattanooga
These look great to me. Ah, the locomotive that started it all for the SOU steam program, the 4501. She's in Chattanooga now at TVRM?
Yes indeed, she's alive and happy at the TVRM but they painted her back to her original horrid black. I miss the green!!!!!!
Here's the last of them for now unless I uncover another lost folder. The 4501..... again Chattanooga The 611 in Lexington KY. She was getting pulled backwards by those F's down to the wye near Danville KY to be turned for a ferry move south to Chattanooga TN. A double header at the TVRM in Chattanooga TN with Southern 722 in the lead. I think she's at Spencer NC now. I think that is Southern 630 behind her. The TVRM always liked to have one of their steam engines out to greet the NS excursion trains if they were passing the museum while heading in or out of Chattanooga. It's something in hind sight I wish I'd photographed more but alas, I didn't. I know I have more pics of this day somewhere. I think what drew me in this day was knowing that TVRM had both the 722 and 630 out to meet the 611 as she rolled into Chattanooga.
