| Posted by on May 15, 2012 | |
Northbound Palmetto, Tr 90, crossing the Southern at North Charleston. That's Southern's Seven Mile Yard in the background, its main yard in the Charleston area. Southern's last passenger station was there, also, and the small building survives as a yard office. The Palmetto's baggageman is opening the east door on the small 50-foot baggage car in preparation for rounding the almost 90-degree curve at SY, the north end of former ACL's Bennett Yard, and arriving at Amtrak's Charleston station, built by ACL in the '50s, I believe, and known as North Charleston to eliminate the back-up moves for 6 or 7 miles down onto the Charleston peninsula, in downtown Charleston proper.
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