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Southern Crescent
Title:  Southern Crescent
Description:  The northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT was being inspected and service on what had once been Track 10 of Birmingham's Terminal Station, before continuing on its journey from New Orleans to New York City. Between 1909 and 1969 the vacant land on the left had been occupied by the station and most of its platforms. Today's Train No. 2 consisted of E8A's 6902, 6910, 6908 and 6914 with 10 cars: baggage-dormitory car 706 SOUTH CAROLINA, coaches 837, 840, 819 and Amtrak 5680, sleepers 2023 WARRIOR RIVER, Amtrak 2619 PACIFIC MEADOW and 3499 ROYAL PALM, diner 3306 and dome car 1613. In less than a year, Amtrak would take over the operation of the train and it would begin using the Louisville & Nashville station, so scenes like this would not last for much longer.
Photo Date:  3/17/1978  Upload Date: 8/13/2015 10:48:29 AM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Paul H. Oliver, Jr.
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6902(E8A)
Views:  565   Comments: 0
Southern Crescent
Title:  Southern Crescent
Description:  The northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT pulls out of the last remnant of Birmingham's Terminal Station as it continued its journey from New Orleans to New York City. The train consisted of E8A's 6902, 6910, 6908 and 6914 with 10 cars: baggage-dormitory car 706 SOUTH CAROLINA, coaches 837, 840, 819 and Amtrak 5680, sleepers 2023 WARRIOR RIVER, Amtrak 2619 PACIFIC MEADOW and 3499 ROYAL PALM, diner 3306 and dome car 1613. In less than a year, Amtrak would take over the operation of the train and it would begin using the Louisville & Nashville station, so scenes like this would not last for much longer.
Photo Date:  3/17/1978  Upload Date: 8/13/2015 10:49:48 AM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Paul H. Oliver, Jr.
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6902(E8A)
Views:  450   Comments: 1
Engine change for No !
Title:  Engine change for No !
Description:  New E-8 power for the trip to New Orleans
Photo Date:  4/24/1978  Upload Date: 7/23/2010 12:30:38 AM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  James Gillin
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6902(E8A)
Views:  658   Comments: 4
TR #2
Title:  TR #2
Description:  Equipment for TR 2 "Southern Crescent" waiting for boarding and departure
Photo Date:  4/28/1978  Upload Date: 8/6/2011 3:50:09 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  James Gillin
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6902(E8A)
Views:  411   Comments: 1
SR 610 backed out of Alexandria while the Southern Crescent awaits departure
Title:  SR 610 backed out of Alexandria while the Southern Crescent awaits departure
Description:  SR 610 backed out of Alexandria while the Southern Crescent awaits departure
Photo Date:  7/22/1978  Upload Date: 2/22/2016 7:40:38 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6902(E8A)
Views:  265   Comments: 0
SR 610 backed out of Alexandria while the Southern Crescent awaits departure
Title:  SR 610 backed out of Alexandria while the Southern Crescent awaits departure
Description:  SR 610 backed out of Alexandria while the Southern Crescent awaits departure
Photo Date:  7/22/1978  Upload Date: 2/22/2016 7:42:29 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Station,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 610(2-10-4) SOU 6902(E8A)
Views:  307   Comments: 0
SR E-8A 6902
Title:  SR E-8A 6902
Description:  SR E-8A 6902 leads the Southern Crescent at Alexandria Union Station
Photo Date:  7/22/1978  Upload Date: 2/22/2016 7:43:47 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6902(E8A)
Views:  248   Comments: 0
SR E-8A 6902
Title:  SR E-8A 6902
Description:  SR E-8A 6902 leads the Southern Crescent out of Alexandria Union Station
Photo Date:  7/22/1978  Upload Date: 2/22/2016 7:44:56 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6902(E8A)
Views:  267   Comments: 0
SR E-8A 6902
Title:  SR E-8A 6902
Description:  SR E-8A 6902 leads the Southern Crescent out of Alexandria Union Station
Photo Date:  7/22/1978  Upload Date: 2/22/2016 7:46:26 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6902(E8A)
Views:  236   Comments: 0
SR E-8A 6902
Title:  SR E-8A 6902
Description:  SR E-8A 6902 leads the Southern Crescent out of Alexandria Union Station
Photo Date:  7/22/1978  Upload Date: 2/22/2016 7:47:46 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6902(E8A)
Views:  254   Comments: 0
SR E-8A 6902 leads the Southern Crescent past SR 610
Title:  SR E-8A 6902 leads the Southern Crescent past SR 610
Description:  SR E-8A 6902 leads the Southern Crescent past SR 610
Photo Date:  7/22/1978  Upload Date: 2/22/2016 7:50:25 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6902(E8A) SOU 610(2-10-4)
Views:  411   Comments: 0
SR E-8A 6902 leads the Southern Crescent past SR 610
Title:  SR E-8A 6902 leads the Southern Crescent past SR 610
Description:  SR E-8A 6902 leads the Southern Crescent past SR 610
Photo Date:  7/22/1978  Upload Date: 2/22/2016 7:51:26 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6902(E8A) SOU 610(2-10-4)
Views:  334   Comments: 0
Southern Crescent, southbound, July, 1978
Title:  Southern Crescent, southbound, July, 1978
Description:  I think it was late and was moving fast this day. It was due at 5:22 p.m. and there isn't much light left.
Photo Date:  12/31/2005  Upload Date: 1/3/2006 2:12:09 PM
Location:  Purvis, MS
Author:  John Sita
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6902(E8A)
Views:  439   Comments: 1
SR 6903
Title:  SR 6903
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/13/1973  Upload Date: 2/4/2012 6:08:03 PM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  458   Comments: 2
SOU 6903 Button Gwinnett of Georgia
Title:  SOU 6903 Button Gwinnett of Georgia
Description:  In 1976, the Southern paid tribute to the American Bicentennial with banners for the signers of the Declaration of Independence from the Southern's territory.
Photo Date:  5/1/1976  Upload Date: 1/24/2006 7:14:39 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Frank Greene
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  728   Comments: 0
SOU 6904
Title:  SOU 6904
Description:  SR power awaits Crescent assignments.
Photo Date:  4/1/1977  Upload Date: 4/23/2020 10:38:04 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A) SOU 6903(E8A) WATC 62(RS1)
Views:  368   Comments: 1
SOU 6904
Title:  SOU 6904
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/1/1977  Upload Date: 4/23/2020 10:38:06 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A) SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  401   Comments: 2
SOU 6903
Title:  SOU 6903
Description:  Four miles after leaving New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, Southern passenger trains reached home rails at East City Junction. Here, NOUPT's Eastern Connection connected with a Southern subsidiary, the New Orleans Terminal Co. In this view, the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT in on the NOTCO, passing under the southbound home signal protecting East City Junction. The train has E8A's 6903, 6901, 6912 and 6907 with eight cars: baggage-dormitory 706; coaches 834, 833 and Amtrak 5667; 10-6 sleepers 2008 PACOLET RIVER and Amtrak 2603 PACIFIC BEND, diner 3869, and dome coach 1613.
Photo Date:  4/8/1977  Upload Date: 6/4/2009 11:52:46 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  1904   Comments: 0
Southern Railway E-8A 6903
Title:  Southern Railway E-8A 6903
Description:  Southern Railway E-8A 6903 in a quartet of E-8's ready to lead the Southern Crescent at Washington Union Station.
Photo Date:  4/1/1978  Upload Date: 1/5/2016 5:07:50 PM
Location:  Washington Union Sta, DC
Author:  Andrew J. Erlichman
Categories:  Roster,Station
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  369   Comments: 0
Train #2 Southern Crescent at speed
Title:  Train #2 Southern Crescent at speed
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1978  Upload Date: 1/23/2006 6:43:48 PM
Location:  Duluth, GA
Author:  Frank Greene
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  1992   Comments: 1
Southern E8A 6903
Title:  Southern E8A 6903
Description:  Taken circa 1980.
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 11/20/2022 3:16:17 PM
Location:  Elizabethport, NJ
Author:  Tom Gallo
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  170   Comments: 0
SOU 6903
Title:  SOU 6903
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/10/1980  Upload Date: 5/23/2015 5:52:13 PM
Location:  Elizabethport Yard, NJ
Author:  andrew koenigsberg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  311   Comments: 0
SOU 6903
Title:  SOU 6903
Description:  NJ Transit locomotive 4333 in it's original Southern paint to star in the movie "Angel Heart".
Photo Date:  9/6/1985  Upload Date: 1/27/2008 10:52:48 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tony Krslovic
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  704   Comments: 1
SOU 6903x Looking real good
Title:  SOU 6903x Looking real good
Description:  Southern E-8 visiting Hoboken to be part of a Robert Denero movie. The coach behind it recieved a Southern sticker by the vestibule.
Photo Date:  4/1/2005  Upload Date: 5/29/2005 9:25:51 PM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tony Krslovic
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  840   Comments: 1
Southern Crescent, April, 1978
Title:  Southern Crescent, April, 1978
Description:  Look how clean those E-8s were - Southern was trying to discontinue the train at the time, too.
Photo Date:  12/31/2005  Upload Date: 1/1/2006 12:28:36 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  John Sita
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  907   Comments: 0
Southern Crescent, southbound, April, 1978
Title:  Southern Crescent, southbound, April, 1978
Description:  It was really flying low - at least 80 mph.
Photo Date:  12/31/2005  Upload Date: 1/1/2006 12:33:10 AM
Location:  Purvis, MS
Author:  John Sita
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6903(E8A)
Views:  782   Comments: 1
SOU 6904
Title:  SOU 6904
Description:  SOU 6904 is seen at a station stop
Photo Date:  12/28/1972  Upload Date: 12/12/2020 7:01:20 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  John Beach
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  310   Comments: 0
SOU 6904
Title:  SOU 6904
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/11/1973  Upload Date: 5/10/2009 10:33:20 PM
Location:  Meridian, MS
Author:  Jack Smith
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  731   Comments: 1
SOU 6904 (RF)
Title:  SOU 6904 (RF)
Description:  The Crescent Limited makes a station stop at Alexandria.
Photo Date:  10/29/1975  Upload Date: 7/7/2007 5:30:34 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  616   Comments: 2
Southern Railway Train No. 2
Title:  Southern Railway Train No. 2
Description:  The second floor of the Slidell depot provided this vantage point as the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT rolled into town, about one hour into its journey from New Orleans to New York. (year OK, date approximate)
Photo Date:  1/1/1976  Upload Date: 5/19/2009 5:23:51 PM
Location:  Slidell, LA
Author:  James H. Slezer, Jr.
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  1626   Comments: 1
Train #2 Southern Crescent
Title:  Train #2 Southern Crescent
Description:  During the Summer of 1976, the Southern Crescent frequently ran in two sections between Atlanta and Washington, D. C. Here we see #2 approaching Peachtree Station from New Orleans with the section that will become 2nd #2. The red banners are Southern's Bicentennial tribute.
Photo Date:  7/1/1976  Upload Date: 1/23/2006 6:43:50 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Frank Greene
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  1362   Comments: 1
Southern 6916 AND 6904
Title:  Southern 6916 AND 6904
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/1/1977  Upload Date: 2/17/2023 9:22:33 AM
Location:  Arlington, VA
Author:  Dick Leonhardt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6916(E8A) SOU 6904(E8A) AMTK 417(E9A)
Views:  216   Comments: 0
Southern 6904
Title:  Southern 6904
Description:  EMD E8s on the Southern Crescent at Birmingham, AL, in February 1978
Photo Date:  2/27/1978  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 11:00:28 AM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  314   Comments: 0
Southern Railway Train No. 2
Title:  Southern Railway Train No. 2
Description:  Just after sunup, Southern Railway Train No. 2 – the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT – was preparing to leave New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal behind E8A 6904 and three other units. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  4/1/1978  Upload Date: 9/24/2021 11:22:25 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  342   Comments: 1
Train #1 Southern Crescent
Title:  Train #1 Southern Crescent
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/1/1978  Upload Date: 1/23/2006 6:43:48 PM
Location:  Buford, GA
Author:  Frank Greene
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  1691   Comments: 2
SR Tr 1 at Terminal Station
Title:  SR Tr 1 at Terminal Station
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/24/1978  Upload Date: 7/23/2010 12:50:14 AM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  James Gillin
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  587   Comments: 1
Northbound Southen Railway Crescent Arrives in Alexandria
Title:  Northbound Southen Railway Crescent Arrives in Alexandria
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/11/1978  Upload Date: 4/5/2012 10:31:43 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Frank A. Phillips Jr.
Categories:  Roster,Model,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  399   Comments: 0
SOU 6904
Title:  SOU 6904
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/28/1978  Upload Date: 5/3/2007 4:03:03 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  444   Comments: 1
SOU 6904
Title:  SOU 6904
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/28/1978  Upload Date: 5/3/2007 4:03:04 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  449   Comments: 0
Southern Railway (SOU) EMD E8A No. 6904
Title:  Southern Railway (SOU) EMD E8A No. 6904
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/13/1980  Upload Date: 1/31/2009 5:39:40 PM
Location:  Elizabethport, NJ
Author: 
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  595   Comments: 1
SOU 6904
Title:  SOU 6904
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/1987  Upload Date: 5/28/2004 4:07:30 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Uncle Joe Oates
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  1055   Comments: 1
SR 6905
Title:  SR 6905
Description:  (Date approximate)
Photo Date:  7/7/1973  Upload Date: 1/9/2012 12:10:20 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:  809   Comments: 3
Southern 6905
Title:  Southern 6905
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/7/1973  Upload Date: 4/21/2020 12:44:51 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:  417   Comments: 1
SR 6905
Title:  SR 6905
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/7/1973  Upload Date: 7/1/2013 10:34:42 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:  710   Comments: 5
Southern Railway Train No. 2
Title:  Southern Railway Train No. 2
Description:  Southern Railway train No. 2 – the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT – was at the station in Slidell, Louisiana with E8A 6905, FP7A’s 6147, 6145 and 6148, and nine cars: baggage-dormitory 710, coaches 843, 828 and SCL 5467, diner 3306, 10-6 sleeping cars 2012 SALUDA RIVER, 3401 FRENCH BROAD RIVER and un-named Amtrak 2695; and dome parlor 1602. During 1974 FP7’s were often used on Nos. 1 and 2, but not this many!
Photo Date:  4/26/1974  Upload Date: 4/30/2021 5:34:58 PM
Location:  Slidell, LA
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. image
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:  503   Comments: 0
SOU 6905
Title:  SOU 6905
Description:  A colorful assortment of power sits at the Ivy City Engine Terminal in Washington DC on a September day in 1975. Front and center is Southern Railway E8A 6905 (ex-SOU 2928, built 9/51), still in passenger service for the Southern Railway (which did not initially join the Amtrak system when it was formed in 1971). Hiding behind the E-unit is Baltimore & Ohio 6606, a steam-generator equipped GP9 used on Washington to Baltimore commuter trains. And behind that is an assortment of Amtrak SDP40F diesels (582 and, behind that, 609, with others not visible).
Photo Date:  9/1/1975  Upload Date: 2/3/2013 9:49:08 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Douglas G. Walker
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A) BO 6606(GP9) AMTK 582(SDP40F) AMTK 609(SDP40F)
Views:  960   Comments: 0
SOU 6905 Thomas Nelson, Jr. of Virginia
Title:  SOU 6905 Thomas Nelson, Jr. of Virginia
Description:  In 1976, the Southern paid tribute to the American Bicentennial with banners for the signers of the Declaration of Independence from the Southern's territory.
Photo Date:  5/1/1976  Upload Date: 1/24/2006 7:14:39 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Frank Greene
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:  886   Comments: 0
Southern Railway Train No. 2
Title:  Southern Railway Train No. 2
Description:  Southern Railway Train No. 2 – the northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT – was heading into the morning sun as it made its way out of New Orleans at the Canal Boulevard Underpass. The 12-car train consisted of E8A units 6905, 6902 and 6914, baggage-dormitory car 711, coaches 840, 844, 835, 834 and 3789, 10-roomette/6-double-bedroom sleeping cars 2016 ST. JOHNS RIVER and 2006 OCMULGEE RIVER, diner 3311, dome coach 1613, coach 837 and 11-bedroom sleeper 2301 ROYAL COURT.
Photo Date:  6/3/1977  Upload Date: 10/18/2021 9:38:01 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:  628   Comments: 0
Southern E8 and SCL GP40-2
Title:  Southern E8 and SCL GP40-2
Description:  While the northbound Southern Crescent waits at the former sight of Birmingham Terminal Station a few SCL units pass on the way to Atlanta.
Photo Date:  9/10/1978  Upload Date: 11/2/2008 3:36:46 PM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Gary Morris
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A) SCL 1646(GP40-2)
Views:  997   Comments: 4
Southern Crescent power at Ivy City
Title:  Southern Crescent power at Ivy City
Description:  Southern Railway E8A's lay over during the day at the Ivy City engine terminal
Photo Date:  10/22/1978  Upload Date: 1/11/2010 6:08:15 PM
Location:  Washington, DC
Author:  Bill Wilcox
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6907(E8A) SOU 6905(E8A) SOU 6912(E8A) SOU 6914(E8A)
Views:  1402   Comments: 2


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