Sunday Evening Oldies

[Ponce de Leon]

I did a fair amount of slide scanning today for an ongoing publication project---and I also pulled out a few others, some of which I scanned and posted to Rail Pictures. These range from 1974 to 1991, so I guess you could call them all "oldies." Maybe some of you might enjoy them:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=413904&nseq=0

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=413890&nseq=1

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=413888&nseq=2

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=413887&nseq=3

[Badhorse79]

Ahhh" that's some great stuff there Ron! Hard to find a fav! But copper creek wins for me but lake Cumberland is half a point behind ( the southern units gave it the tie breaker)

[LC43]

Those are some great pictures and I appreciate you sharing those.  Look at the well-maintained track in the shot with the FP7, the Southern Railway had some great track.

I have seen the bridge in the first picture in one of the Southern Railway calendars.

[Trainman24210]

I bet one day the old shots of all those low hood units running hammerhead style will be considered particularly quaint.  But NS dropped to #2 in the "wait and see" crowd when they bought ACs before CN.

[NSMoWandS]

In 50 years... people will be saying... "Look! it's a GE Widecabe GEVO!!!"... "That's an old one!" LOL! Dan

[Southern6482]

I love the Speers Ferry Shot and that LHF SD60!!!! Great shots, Ron!

[nsrlink]

Excellent pictures Ron!
Glad you were trackside to document these scenes.

Do I sense an upcoming "radio train" article?   ;D
I noticed the Belmont Coal train & the one at Burnside as "radio."
Masters, slaves, crackerboxes. 
What was once old is new again it seems.
Looking forward to reading your article.

[Ponce de Leon]

No radio train article in the works...but definitely something Southern fans will go ga-ga over tentiavely scheduled for April 2013 Trains Magazine. EM and Butch are co-conspirators (and, I couldn't be doing it without their knowledge and assistance).