SAL engine

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I am looking for a picture and any info on the engine that pulled a passenger train from Cuthbert, Ga. to Tallahassee , Fla. in the 1940’s & early 1950’s I rode it as a young boy, but don’t remember much about it. It was gasoline powered,I think. the engineer sat right up front and it had a mail & baggage compartment in the engine. Thanks CrosstieBill

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This would be the same model that powered the Hamlet-Charleston-Savannah trains, and the Tampa-Venice connection to the Silver Meteor (that one was last used, by the SCL, for the Lakeland-Naples section of the West Coast Champion). I imagine that Crosstie Bill would prefer a picture with the engine in SAL, rather than SCL, colors.

Johnny

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Is this along the lines of what you had in mind?

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2027 & 2028 were built in 1936 by St. Louis Car Co. with 600 HP Winton engines. Here’s some more pictures and an article about Seaboard in Montgomery.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1264377

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=566727

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/sal2027a.jpg

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/sal2027d.jpg

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/sal2027b.jpg

http://pics2.spoonfeeder.com/AieFTPFiles/AIEUser/JCV22J3X6YM7/9SBZLCGSBVUM.jpg

http://pics2.spoonfeeder.com/AieFTPFiles/AIEUser/JCV22J3X6YM7/BAMEJAFSB2A9.jpg

http://trainweb.org/seaboard/SAL/sal2028.jpg

http://www.oldalabamarails.org/history7.html

Mike

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SAL 2028 later became SCL 4900 and lasted in passenger service until April 30, 1971. It may have been the last motor car on a scheduled service.

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BaltACD and MIke, I thank you, belatedly, for the pictures you posted.

Johnny

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I enjoyed the pictures!

FWIW, I remember hearing that Hamlet-Charleston-Savannah train (which ran right behind my house when I was 4-5 y.o.) referred to as the “Boll Weevil”

/Lone