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Date: 11/26/15 17:48
1975 Baseball Special and surprise
Author: milfordgap

Lexington, KY to Cincinnati, OH and return on the Southern and maybe Conrail.

Picture 1) Southern switch engines pulling the train along Mehring Way after coming off the loop from the Southern bridge.
Picture 2) The 4501 at the end of the train being towed towards Riverfront Stadium.
Picture 3) Sitting down in front of the vegetable markets along Mehring Way.



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Date: 11/26/15 17:54
Re: 1975 Baseball Special and surprise
Author: milfordgap

Picture 4) A truck on the tender was derailed and rerailed by a Southern crew of two while a Conrail crew of roughly ten stood around off to the side. Notice how beautiful the 4501 is in green.
Picture 5) The front of the 4501 with the Cincinnati skyline in the background and the surprise.


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Date: 11/26/15 18:23
Re: 1975 Baseball Special and surprise
Author: krm152

Thanks for posting these interesting photos.
When I was a kid backin the 1950s, I remember hearing people talk about having gone from Louisville to Cincinnati on an L&N baseball special.  Doubt if these specials lasted into the 1960s.
ALLEN

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Date: 11/26/15 20:33
Re: 1975 Baseball Special and surprise
Author: railstiesballast

Is that the American Freedom Train in the background of the last photo?

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Date: 11/27/15 05:16
Re: 1975 Baseball Special and surprise
Author: mopacrr

Is any of the trackage the  4501 on still around?

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Date: 11/27/15 08:03
Re: 1975 Baseball Special and surprise
Author: milfordgap

mopacrr Wrote:
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> Is any of the trackage the  4501 on still around?

I believe most of this is gone. Much of this area was torn up to make way for the new Bengals stadium.

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Date: 11/28/15 18:33
Re: 1975 Baseball Special and surprise
Author: knotch8

Wonderful photos.  Thanks for posting them.

In photo 4, the tall man in the coveralls with the white hair is Bill Purdie, Master Mechanic-Steam for Southern. His wife Sara was in charge of official Southern Railway memorabilia sold in the commissary car by the various sponsoring organizations.

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