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Nostalgia & History > Southern Royal Palm Chattanooga about 1968, an F & an EDate: 07/12/20 09:36 Southern Royal Palm Chattanooga about 1968, an F & an E Author: KCRW287 This posting has 3 photos of the Southern #3, the Royal Palm at Chattanooga. Slides were taken by Paul Revitt, no dates were given, slides do have info as to location and time.
1st pic is Royal Palm waiting to depart at 5:20 pm. 2nd is #3 leaving Chatanooga, 9 minutes late, for Jacksonville 3rd is passenger units getting fueled at Chattanooge Station interlocking. All 3 slides have a processed date of April 68.    Date: 07/12/20 11:43 Re: Southern Royal Palm Chattanooga about 1968, an F & an E Author: RodneyZona Old Southern Railway Atlanta based passenger train and engine crews worked to and from Chattanooga, TN.
Date: 07/12/20 12:59 Re: Southern Royal Palm Chattanooga about 1968, an F & an E Author: ctillnc I believe 1968 was the last year for Southern's E6 units.
Date: 07/12/20 16:16 Re: Southern Royal Palm Chattanooga about 1968, an F & an E Author: cabsignaldrop Nice! It was still running all the way to Jacksonville? I believe it was cut later that year to either Rome, Ga or Atlanta.
Date: 07/12/20 21:10 Re: Southern Royal Palm Chattanooga about 1968, an F & an E Author: ts1457 cabsignaldrop Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Nice! It was still running all the way to > Jacksonville? I believe it was cut later that > year to either Rome, Ga or Atlanta. August 1968 PTT had it running only to Atlanta. When the Tennessee middle part was cut out, Southern briefly ran an Atlanta-Dalton GA stub with a baggage and a coach. Each end had an F-unit because of no turning facilities at Dalton. |