Now that is a great looking consist! Thanks for sharing it.
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What a fantastic shot, Ron! Seeing the L&N in the 'right' colors sure brings back the memories. Every summer my family would go from LA to Memphis to visit relatives. One aunt lived near Wells Station Road crossing, and when I would hear the train leaving Leawood Yard I would run a block or so to get to the crossing before the train. Many times I won and got to see sights like this. Thanks so much for sharing this with us!
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Awesome! Images of the L&N in the beautiful blue and cream are much too rare. Thanks!
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Way past great...
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| Posted by FSWood on May 6, 2012 | |
Now, imagine CSX heritage units ...
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Thank you for posting this one Ron, it's awesome!
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Interesting how they spaced the RS's on that consist. Did they do that on purpose? BTW, great picture, I hate to be be a "I wish I could go back in time" guy, but that is awesome. Love the paint scheme on the FA's.
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Great shot; looks like it might be at Emerson, south of Cartersville.
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Super rare! I do wonder what possessed some master mechanic to mess with the FA's headlight.
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I do not think that the headlight has been altered, most likely the engineer has not turned on the unit's mars light (located in the upper position) or the regular headlights in the nose door. Many times I would have to make a rotating motion with my arm to get an engineer to turn on the mars light. What is strange is that there are no lights on at all. Thanks for this great posting Ron.
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A great shot
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| Posted by FSWood on May 7, 2012 | |
Would it be correct to recall reading somewhere that at that date there weren't the headlight regulations there are today?
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Headlights were not normally lit in daylight at that time. Actually, this dates to the steam-diesel transition, when the smoke from a steam locomotive was sufficient to let people know a train was approaching. Diesels, of course, were another matter. The ICC issued a directive after 1955 that required the headlight to be on at all times---but many old head engineers either ignored the order, or just forgot (since it would have made no sense, to them at least, to have the headlight burning in broad day light).
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For years I've serched for pre-1970's railroad photos for the Emerson / Cartersville, GA area and finally one surfaces! Not only do I love this photo for rail equipment, but also for seeing how the area looked way back then (I live nearby). Thank you so much for sharing this one.
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| Posted by Tim W on May 12, 2012 | |
A good friend of mine just sent me this one as a link in an Email. Beautiful pic, I love the old F-units and the RS units as well. Takes me back to the days when he, his brother, a great mutual friend, and I would meet at the tracks at a deep cut in a hillside at the South end of town to snap some photos of thru freights. We'd spend hours sometimes, and never got bored while waiting for the next one.
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Love it and all the comments of all of you reminiscing about better days gone by. Its great to see photos of railroads I never got to witness but wished I was around then to see.
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Wow! It's amazing to see the changes that have taken place at this location over the years. You can see the construction of I-75 in the background, a new bridge has been built a couple hundred feet ahead of the one he's standing on and the area has been turned into an eye sore development of new planned neighborhoods, and tourists destinations with more to come. Never again will this location be the same.
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