Nostalgia & History > What's in a Consist? (vol #11) GA #2

Wikipedia says the GA (aka GARR) was chartered in 1833, and charged its passengers 5¢ per mile…

GA train #2 @ Atlanta, GA on April 27, 1968.
power: 1035 and 1036.
cars: ACL 1610 and AWP 120.
(car heritage from the train indicted, unless otherwise noted)

Anyone with pics of any of these engines and/or cars feel free to add them on...
Lance Garrels (santafe 199)
Consist by El Simon, courtesy of the Gibson Collection

Lance, here is the A&WP 120, ends are cropped,  I don't know the location, it looks like it is in front of a Capital building. Unknown slide, unknown photographer, my collection, sorry about the late picture posting  KCRW287



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Here's Georgia Railroad 1035, on a local freight in 1968 - photo taken by Martin O'Toole:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3275644

Thanks for the link, Rich! I had to download a copy for the ol' file. And hey Jim... nice looking A&WP car! Thanks for posting.

Lance

added: This car looks like a diner, or maybe some kind of lounge car. Cab anyone elaborate here?



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santafe199 Wrote:
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This car looks like a diner, or maybe some
> kind of lounge car. Cab anyone elaborate here?

A&WP 120 was a 58-seat coach built by Budd in 1953 for service on the Crescent.
The Crescent was all-Pullman from New York to Atlanta, but coaches were in the consist
from Atlanta to New Orleans.

Gordon Bjoraker
Hiawatha101

A&WP #120 was built by Budd in 1953 to replace coaches #68 and #69 that were destroyed in 1951.
On 1/7/1970, A&WP sold coach #120 to the Georgia.  The car was utilized by GARR on their mainline
mixed trains until the service ended in 1983 with the formation of the Seaboard System.
They had another LTWT Coach #106 that was also used in mainline mixed train service.
ALLEN
 

Hiawatha101 Wrote: > ... A&WP 120 was a 58-seat coach ...

Ah... thanks Gordon! It was a coin flip guess for me, and of course I guessed wrong. Passenger car ID is just not my forte in this multi-faceted hobby. In the past I could always rely on fellow KS Gang bro John Arbuckle any & all psgr ID tidbits. Unfortunately he's been gone these 4 years now... 
(I do like the stainless steel look, though! :^)

Lance/199

santafe199 Wrote:
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> Hiawatha101 Wrote: > ... A&WP 120 was a 58-seat
> coach ...
>
> Ah... thanks Gordon! It was a coin flip guess for
> me, and of course I guessed wrong. Passenger car
> ID is just not my forte in this multi-faceted
> hobby. In the past I could always rely on fellow
> KS Gang bro John Arbuckle any & all psgr ID
> tidbits. Unfortunately he's been gone these 4
> years now... 
> (I do like the stainless steel look, though! :^)
>
> Lance/199

Most passenger cars can be ID'd by the window patterns.  Coaches tend to have the most uniform window patterns, as the seating is in a long unbroken room, except for divided coaches, which were almost all caused by segregation.
Hope this helps,

AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA

Credit Rick Burns for this photo.  Here is the westbound version of this train, Train 1,  within Atlanta city limits,  same coach 120, taken in  Dec, 1968.
The Atlantic Coast Line ended at Augusta, GA however it forwarded through cars into Atlanta on the Georgia RR.   By this date, no through cars were handled. 
Phil

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