That place has changed a lot in the last 100 years! Just looking around with the rail cams on the Hotel Roanoke, I don't recognize much! The hotel itself still has part of the 1924 facade and has grown a lot. In Google Earth one can still see the twin N&W office buildings, and that the street that crosses the tracks no longer does so. That one has a long history! Still seems to have its CN road number. Other than the CN upgrades (645 power assemblies and removal of spark arrestors), it's been modified for remote control (lights on either side, antenna farm) and the stacks cut short. Still earning its keep, built August 1960, 64 years ago!
I shot this in August 1983 and you can see the "new" N&W General Offices behind the old. I think the old buildings are now apartments and the new is an educational center.
The old N&W offices have a warm charm to them that only a classic masonry building does. The newer office building looks like a hospital...
A U-25C! So cool! I'm sure purist Rock fans would disagree, but I like the blue/white era. Lots of things were clean and fresh, while everything else was in an advanced state of deterioration. I'm guessing this is an interlocking, as I spy lots of red throwbars. The switch lanterns are nice too!
Man, that IS cool. I wonder if it was making its way west for delivery, fresh from GE's shop at Erie, PA? Looks like it's cut into a train. The Erie shot was taken at Dearborn Station in Chicago. Amtrak brought an end to its life as a terminal, but it survives today.
Hardcoaler is onto something... NP 2516 was delivered in April 1965... Retired in March 1981. http://archive.trainpix.com/BN/GE/U25C/INDEX.HTM
The SP depot in Beasley, Texas about the turn of the century. Beasley is on what was called the "Macaroni Line" because it was built by Italian financier Count Giuseppe Telfener who brought in Italian workers to do the construction. It was chartered as the New York, Texas and Mexican Railway but was sold to Southern Pacific interests in 1885 and eventually merged in the the GH&SA subsidiary.
From Saturday 07/27/24, I finally caught up with NS 1071, the CNJ heritage unit. She headed grain train 50V. The first shot is at Summit, SC and the other working the train at Monetta, SC. Her paint is faded and a bath is needed, but that tangerine and blue looks great to Hardcoaler. This was the CNJ's postwar scheme, first seen in 1946. Even Miss Liberty was new then, having first been applied in war year 1944. Unfortunately, these bright colors had a short history, replaced by a somber and economical Deep Sea Green by the mid-1950s.
Thank you much. At this point, the only NS HU I've never seen is the CR and I want to get better shots of the CofG, NYC and LV. Maybe someday .....
As NS's first heritage unit, the CR has escaped my viewfinder for a dozen years now and in a twist of irony, I lived in NJ in the early 1980s and have a bunch of real CR pictures. Arrrgh. Climbing the east slope, Bennington PA [07/1980]
Oh, and in another bit of weirdness, the CR is the only CSX heritage unit I've seen. [Columbia SC, 12/24/2023]
