It was reported in the Sept. issue of Trains magazine that CSX had struck a deal with EMD/LLPX for a large trade (more details are posted in the CSX forum). In the article, it stated that 1 of the 17 GP40's CSX traded to EMD was #9706, which was delivered to the Seaboard Air Line in 1966 as its # 624 and was the last active SAL GP40 in use on the CSX. If so, the Jolly Green Giant has passed Chessie ------------------ Harold Hodnett Fan of NS, CSX, and their predecessors! Coming soon: The North Carolina Railfan Web Site http://www.trainweb.org/ncrail/
I hate to say "typical" but I have to. The Seaboard is not only "no more" but it seems to have been mostly erased. I've just completed several months of research to discover SAL had an old depot and a new depot in my town. The new depot was built in 1948-1949. It was torn down several years ago to make way for a Walgreens. People told me that there had only been one depot in Gville, the old one south of town. All of SAL's tracks through my town were ripped up in the early seventies. There are strip malls where steamers and ALCo RS units once rode. A lot of people don't even know SAL existed. They remember the ACL because it had tracks down the middle of Main St. But when you say Seaboard they think of SCL. It's too bad. I call myself a "railroad archaeologist." I'm digging up ancient remains.
Richard, I agree with your sentiments exactly. I recently completed a trip along the remnants of the SAL "S" line from Raleigh,N.C. to Norlina,N.C. Around 1986-7, CSX decided to abandon the line that ran north of Norlina to Petersburg/Richmond Va. and pulled up the tracks between the towns. They also went back and pulled up one of the two tracks from Raleigh to Hamlet (where it had been double tracked). Anyway, since Norlina was kind of a big "dot" on the old maps, I expected to see a lot in the way of buildings, but to my suprise, it was just a bunch of abandoned right of way and remnants of an old freight depot. In fact, virtually all of the old stations along the tracks between Raleigh and Norlina were gone, witn little to no evidence of their existence! Very sad indeed Chessie ------------------ Harold Hodnett Fan of NS, CSX, and their predecessors! Coming soon: The North Carolina Railfan Web Site http://www.trainweb.org/ncrail/
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by chessie: Richard, I agree with your sentiments exactly. I recently completed a trip along the remnants of the SAL "S" line from Raleigh,N.C. to Norlina,N.C. Around 1986-7, CSX decided to abandon the line that ran north of Norlina to Petersburg/Richmond Va. and pulled up the tracks between the towns. They also went back and pulled up one of the two tracks from Raleigh to Hamlet (where it had been double tracked). Anyway, since Norlina was kind of a big "dot" on the old maps, I expected to see a lot in the way of buildings, but to my suprise, it was just a bunch of abandoned right of way and remnants of an old freight depot. In fact, virtually all of the old stations along the tracks between Raleigh and Norlina were gone, witn little to no evidence of their existence! Very sad indeed Chessie <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Denis F. Blake: To this day CSX regrets pulling up that track. As a matter of fact they are trying to find a way to get the taxpayers of NC to pay for the reinstalling of that rail for future passenger operations and also for intermodal use. Denis <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Hey, the taxpayers of our great state have already footed the bill for the "NCRR" fiasco, and its plans for high speed service, why not the "S" line too??? I guess this is why the state has "preserved" the R-O-W from Wallace to Wilmington too... Chessie ------------------ Harold Hodnett Fan of NS, CSX, and their predecessors! Coming soon: The North Carolina Railfan Web Site http://www.trainweb.org/ncrail/
