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Date: 10/03/25 02:34
Southern 4501 rolling north at Lumberton,MS
Author: gcm

Nov 1978
Pulling fifteen cars - mostly heavyweight - on the Southern headed to Hattiesburg.
Gary

 

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Date: 10/03/25 05:45
Re: Southern 4501 rolling north at Lumberton,MS
Author: refarkas

Lots of smoke - Good-looking train.
Bob

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Date: 10/04/25 08:49
Re: Southern 4501 rolling north at Lumberton,MS
Author: ExStarlightHog

That second tender looks like some Rube Goldberg conconction of a water tank on top of an old flatcar.  

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Date: 10/04/25 12:50
Re: Southern 4501 rolling north at Lumberton,MS
Author: DRGWMark

ExStarlightHog Wrote:
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> That second tender looks like some Rube Goldberg
> conconction of a water tank on top of an old
> flatcar.  

If that's WT50, it was one of the water tenders the Norfolk & Western used behind A's and Y's in the steam days. Sadly, Norfolk Southern scrapped it sometime in the 1980s.

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