Southern Museum of Civil War And Locomotive History Archives & Library David W. Salter Collection Southern Railways MS2010.014 P2010.014 Photographs of Southern Railways Diesel Locomotives Provenance: The David W. Salter Collection consists of 47,021 items including railroad related photographs, negatives, slides, timetables/schedules, maps, posters, books including Official Guides, correspondence and model trains of various scales. The family of the late David W. Salter donated his collections to the Southern Museum in May 2010. Single photocopies are available for research purposes only for a nominal fee. A list of applicable fees can be found on our website www.southernmuseum.org and then click on Duplication of Services Fee Schedule. Sallie Loy, Richard Hillman, Daniel Pete and volunteer, Susanne Whitmer, processed these photographs in 2010-2012. Description: This series consists of photographs of Southern Railways Diesel Locomotives, circa 1940 1970. Descriptions are representative samples in the collection and not detailed entirely as to their contents. Box File Contents Southern Railway Diesel Locomotive Photographs 43 237 Photograph: Southern Railway Train No. 37 Crescent has an EMD A and B unit in charge of her fourteen car heavy-weight all Pullman train. Note that this unit no longer has the train name painted on the flanks of the diesel. Nearing the Jefferson Street crossing at Atlanta, Georgia on March 15, 1947. Photo # 5095 43 237 Photograph: Southern Railway Photograph made from cab of No. 48, Southerner as it passed 1
Weems, Alabama, about to go under the Seaboard with an eastbound freight overhead. Circa 1965 Photographer: Frank Ardrey Photo # 5096 43 237 Photograph: Southern Railways Southern Diesel No. 1229, Train No. 152 at Doraville in June, 1978 Photo Postcard # 5097 43 237 Photograph: Southern Railways 174 on main Southern Pacific Nos. 8783, 9008, & 7916 with Southern Train No. 189 (Atlanta-Anniston-Selma-Mobile) run with Southern Engine Nos. 2651, 2660, 2710, 2606 at Villa Rica, Georgia on July 19, 1978 Color Photo # 5098 43 237 Photograph: Southern Railways Southern Diesel No. 512 at Douglasville, Georgia in April 1954 Photo # 5099 43 237 Photograph: Southern Railways FM Power Unit No. 40 (off Train No. 25, The Vulcan ) at Birmingham, Alabama on August 25, 1946 Photographer: Frank Ardrey, Jr. Photo # 5100 43 237 Photograph: Southern Railways Southern Diesel No. 414, Birmingham Special at Washington, DC in 1948 Photo # 5101 43 238 Photograph: Southern Railways Southern Diesel No. 2003 Durham s first diesel engine, 600 horsepower GM diesel switcher - first diesel in regular service. Photo # 5102 43 238 Photograph: Southern Railways Southern Diesel at undisclosed location Photo # 5103 43 238 Photograph: Southern Railways Southern Diesel No. 2187, north bound at Murphy Branch, North Carolina on October 16, 1953 Photo Postcard # 5104 43 238 Photograph: Southern Railways Southern EMD Switcher No. 2261 at Inman Yards in Atlanta, Georgia on February 29, 1948 Photo # 5105 43 238 Photograph: Southern Railways Southern Freight Diesel No. 2645, Asheville Division, at Burgin 2
Tunnel near Old Fort, North Carolina in August 1975 Color Photo # 5106 Southern coal train No. 2760-5103-2763-2819-2817 on trestle in mountains on Jellico Branch, Tennessee on August 29, 1975 Color Photo # 5107 Southern Diesel No. 2801 at Atlanta, Georgia Photo # 5108 Southern Diesel No. 2801 The Southerner, Train No. 47 at Anniston, Alabama Photo Postcard # 5109 Southern s south bound Southerner is only a few miles from the Atlanta Terminal Station with consist almost identical to the original equipment of the train when it was inaugurated in 1941. Diesel No. 2801 (2802 on photograph) is in charge and the only change is the addition of a New York Atlanta coach to the streamliner s original seven car consists. Photo was taken at Armour, Atlanta, Georgia on March 22, 1947 at 10:00 AM with estimated speed of 60 mph. Photo # 5110 Southern Diesel No. 2802 at undisclosed location Photo # 5111 Southern Diesel No. 2802 at North Avenue Roundhouse in Atlanta, Georgia on November 18, 1945 Photo # 5112 Southern Diesel No. 2900 and 5200 at undisclosed location Stamped on reverse side of photograph: W. E McPeake of Jonesboro, Tennessee Photo # 5113 Southern Diesel No. 2900 at Bristol, Virginia Photo # 5114 Southern Diesel No. 2901 A unit and 2901 B unit, The Tennessean at Knoxville, Tennessee Photo # 5115 & 5116 3
Southern Diesel No. 2902, Train No. 38, Crescent Limited at undisclosed location Photo # 5117 Southern Diesel No. 2902 at undisclosed locations Photo # 5118 & 5119 Southern E-7 s Nos. 2905 1915 at North Avenue Yard, Atlanta, Georgia Photo # 5120 Southern Diesel Nos. 2905 2915 at North Avenue Yard, Atlanta, Georgia in June 1945 Photo # 5121 Southern Passenger Diesel Nos. 2906 2909 at North Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia in April 1947 Photo # 5122 Southern Diesel No. 2907 at undisclosed location Photo # 5123 Southern Diesel No. 2915 at undisclosed location Color Photo # 5124 Southern Royal Palm south bound Tunnel No.27 last trip No. 2916 and 3 cars Color Photo # 5125 Southern Royal Palm Train No. 4 Last trip, Chattanooga to Cincinnati, Ohio, No. 2919 and 4 cars at Oakdale, Tennessee Tunnel No. 26 Color Photo # 5126 Southern Diesel No. 2923 at undisclosed location Color Photo # 5127 Southern Diesel No. 2924, Train No. 47 at Austell, Georgia on December 14, 1952 Photo # 5128 Southern Diesel Nos. 3043 & 3104 with Conrail No. 5412 in lead 4
with two 1960 era automobiles alongside of tracks Color -Photo # 5129 Southern Diesel Nos. 3231 & 3219 with blue Conrail No. 6411 Southern Conrail run thru Southern 16 at Chattahoochee, Georgia in August 1978 Color Photo # 5130 Southern Diesel No. 3232 with Southern Pacific No. 7623 in lead with Nos. 7622 & 7631 switching at East Douglasville, Georgia in October 1978 Color Photo # 5131 Southern Diesel No. 3251, GP-38-2, snow plow job at Inman Yards, Atlanta, Georgia in August 1975 Color Photo # 5132 & 5133 Southern and B&O Run-thru No. 172, Unit 3039, B&O No. 3765 and B&O No. 4202 north bound near Spring City, Tennessee on CNO&TP (Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific) in October 1976 Color Photo# 5134 Southern and B&O Run-thru at Dallas, Georgia, south bound, Southern Nos. 3117, 3141, 3147 and B&O No. 7592 in April 1975 Color Photo # 5135 Southern Diesel No. 3811 at Inman yards, Atlanta, Georgia in November 1972 Color Photo # 5136 Southern Diesel No. 3813 stored at Army Depot in August 1975 Color Photo # 5137 Southern, B&0 No. 172 northbound at Rockmart, Georgia in May 1974 with Southern Diesel No. 3814 - GE, C&O No. 7503 EMD, B&O No. 7592 EMD, and Southern No. 3045 EMD with Braswell Tunnel one mile around curve Color Photo # 5138 5
Southern Diesel No. 3901 at Inman Yards, Atlanta, Georgia in November 1972 Color Photo # 5139 Southern Diesel No. 3931 at Inman Yard, Atlanta, Georgia in August 1975 Color Photo # 5140 Southern Diesel No. 3970 at Inman Yards, Atlanta, Georgia in August 1978 Color Photo # 5141 Southern Diesel No. 4113 (A, B & C Units) freight at Inman Yards, Atlanta, Georgia in February 1946 Color Photo # 5142 Southern Diesel No. 4140 at undisclosed location Photo # 5143 Southern Diesel No. 4176 crossing Yadkin River bridge, April 17, 1952 with 17 dead steam engines for Baltimore, Maryland to be scrapped. Steam engines to be scrapped: 4890, 1387, 4872, 4902, 4809, 4818, 4811, 6317, 4872, 1395, 6288, 4843, 4813, 4812, 4773, 4837 and 1406. Initials on the reverse side of the photograph are CBK. Photo Postcard # 5144 Southern Eastbound freight at Murphy Branch, North Carolina Diesel Nos. 4199 4266 at Nantahala River, October 1964 Photo # 5145 Southern Diesel No. 4199 at Murphy Branch, North Carolina Color Photo Nos. 5146, 5147 & 5148 (2 different views) Southern Diesel No. 4203 B-B-A southbound freight south of Duluth, Georgia in December 1958 Photo # 5149 Southern Southbound Freight with the 4203 plus 2 B s and another A unit south of Duluth, Georgia. December, 1958 6
Photo # 5150 Southern Diesel No. 4257-4438-4439-4256 (new 4151 Electro Motive), Train No. 54, northbound above Austell, Georgia in May, 1951. Note by David W. Salter: This is one 4 unit set of 4 sets of new diesels on Atlanta Chattanooga Line. They pull 80 to 200 cars. This one after picking up at Rom & Dalton had 190 cars into Chattanooga. Condt. Nation. Engineer Mills. Photographer: Dick Sharpless Photo # 5151 View No. 1 Dead Engine Train Southern Railway Diesels 4259 4422-4423 44258 leaving north Inman Yards with 25 dead engines sold to Granit City Steel Company at East St. Louis, Illinois. March 19, 1952 Photo Postcard # 5152 Southern Diesel No. 4265 at undisclosed location Photo # 5153 Southern Diesel No. 4265 in lead at undisclosed location Color Photo # 5154 Southern Diesel No. 4265 in lead passing mowed field on one side and road on the other side. Undisclosed location. Color Photo # 5155 Southern Diesel No. 4265 at undisclosed location Color Photo # 5156 Southern Diesel No. 4387 at undisclosed location Color Photo # 5157 Southern Diesel No. 5033, Train No. 168 approaching Douglasville in 1972 Photo # 5158 Southern Diesel Nos. 6401 6425 6426, Train No. 1 Ponce De Leon near Atlanta, Georgia in August, 1946 Photo Postcard # 5159 7
Southern Diesel No. 6902 on point a few miles east of Anniston, Alabama, August, 1959 Power: ALCO PA s Color Photo # 5160 Southern Diesel No. 6903, Train No. 35, Passenger, Mail & Express (Chattanooga Memphis) north of Whiteside, Tennessee in August, 1957 Photo # 5161 Southern Diesel No. 4116 4316 4114 Freight No. 52 near Austell, Georgia on December 25, 1946 Photo # 5162 Southern Diesel No. 4118 4306 4107 freight train passing through Reidsville, North Carolina at 12:25 p.m. on April 11, 1945 Photographer: Driscoll s Photos Photo # 5163 Southern Diesel No. 6050, Class F, at Cincinnati, Ohio in September, 1945 Photographer: R. H. Payne Photo # 5164 Southern Diesel No. 6115 with 9 units on the train west of Chattahoochee, Georgia in January, 1954. Photo # 5165 Southern Diesel No. 6123 at undisclosed location Photo # 5166 Southern Diesel No. 6132 stored at Army Depot in August, 1975 Photo # 5167 Southern Diesel No. 6307 southbound Train No. 143 near Dallas, Georgia in July, 1972. This is new trade line old trade line is other side of left bank and tress down in hold. Map drawn of new and old lines with curves and grades. Color Photo # 5168 Southern Diesel No. 6400 A&B Units at Cincinnati, Ohio 8
Photo # 5169 Southern Diesel No. 6400 6401 at Terminal Station, Atlanta, Georgia in 1942 Power: ALCO DL-109 s Photo # 5170 Southern Diesel No. 6401 also DL-109 at Cincinnati, Ohio in 1943 Color Photo # 5171 Southern Diesel No. 6401, ALCO passenger unit at Ludlow, Kentucky, getting ready to leave on No. 3 in February, 1944 in snow Color Photo # 5172 Southern Diesel No. 6401 at Cincinnati, Ohio in 1942 in snow Color Photo # 5173 Southern Diesel No. 6704 on No. 29 (in hole) at Austell, Georgia Engineer Reeves meeting 2/30 Hot Shot freight engineer A. Newman in August, 1953 Photo Postcard # 5174 Southern Diesel No. 6708 at undisclosed location Photo # 5175 Southern Diesel No. 6719 4420, The Royal Palm north bound near Federal Prison at South Yard on in July, 1968. Color Photo # 5176 Southern Diesel No. 6905, 6901, 6911 and 6914. The Crescent at Douglasville, Georgia in October, 1978 Color Photo # 5177 Southern Diesel No. 6902 on point Train No. 7, Kansas City Florida Special, a few miles east of Anniston, Alabama in August, 1959 Color Photo # 5178 Southern Diesel No. 6705 & 6907 at undisclosed location Color Photo # 5179 Southern Diesel No. 6903 at undisclosed location 9
Photo # 5180 Southern Diesel No. 6904, Train No. 2 The Crescent in Rev- Curve at Muscadine, Alabama in 1975 Color Photo # 5181 Southern Diesel No. 6910 passenger train at undisclosed location Photo # 5182 Southern Diesel No. 6912 passenger train crossing over low trestle across large body of water at undisclosed location Photo # 5183 Southern Diesel No. 6912 at undisclosed location Photo # 5184 Southern Diesel No. 6913 passenger train at undisclosed location Photo # 5185 Southern Diesel No. 6914, 6911 and 6908 at Pegram Shop, Atlanta, Georgia in August, 1976 Note: 6908, 6914 & 6911 sold to New Jersey D.O.T. in November, 1949 gone but not forgotten per Shelby Lowe Color Photo # 5186 Southern Diesel No. 6914 at undisclosed location Color Photo # 5187 Unidentified Locomotive Southern Diesel passenger train at undisclosed location Photo # 5188 Unidentified Locomotive SCL (Seaboard Coast Lines) East bound freight (Run-thru) near Hanlon, Georgia in February, 1973. Seaboard Coast Line Diesel with three Frisco s. Note by Shelby Lowe: Hanlon Tunnel just around curve in background at end of passenger truck. Color Photo # 5189 Southern Diesel No. 159 from East Inman Yards Norfolk Southern Nos. 2003 & 2005 Southern Nos. 2554 2550 188 cars was pulling down to double over in Class Yard 10
Color Photo # 5190 Southern Diesel No. 171 Run Thru with Southern Nos. 3280, 3255, PC Nos. 6172 & 6394 at undisclosed location in June, 1978 made from office window Color Photo # 5191 Ponce De Leon at Howell Yard in Atlanta, Georgia with 3 ALCO s DL-109s (1-A, 2-B Units) Note by Shelby F. Lowe: Remember these babies Photo # 5192 Southerner at Anniston, Alabama Photo # 5193 Southerner and unidentified streamliner at Flowery Branch, Georgia in 1942 and 1943 Photo #s 5194, 5195, 5196, 5197, 5198, 5199, 5200, 5201, 5202, 5203, 5204 and 5205 Unidentified Locomotives and Undisclosed Locations Photo #s 5206, 5207, 5208, 5209, 5210, 5211, 5212, 5213, 5214, 5215, 5216, 5217, 5218, 5219, 5220, 5221, 5222, 5223, 5224 and 5225 Diesel Engine The Tennessean at undisclosed location W. E. McPeake stamped on reverse side of photograph Photo # 5226 Southern Diesel Freight on Asheville Division near Drendon, North Carolina in August, 1975 Note by Shelby Lowe: Diesels thru spot between trees at right. Photo # 5227 Southern train, part of a long office-car special near Bryson City, North Carolina in November, 1965 Color Photo # 5228 Southern train shot from tail-end Last car to pass over trestle is business car named Virginia. Train is part of a long office-car special near Bryson City, North Carolina in November, 1965. See enclosed copy of Tie Magazine article re: this train when D. W. Brosnan was president of Southern Railways. 11
Color Photo #s 5229 & 5230 Train No. 1, Ponce de Leon with ALCO DL-109 s (A&B) south bound at Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia on June 26, 1947 Photographer: Richard A. Sharpless, Jr. Photo # 5231 Diesel Engine No. 2, Train No. 34 Piedmont whisked northward by two E units near Flowery Branch, Georgia in November, 1958 Photo # 5232 Diesel Engine No. 38 eastbound Crescent stopped just around curve from Wells Viaduct just south of Toccoa, Georgia. Supposed to be first east bound trip with new equipment. Photo # 5233 Diesel Engine No. 38, The Crescent Rear view showing PS Observation Car From Lenox Road overpass, Atlanta, Georgia in July, 1950 Photographer: Richard A. Sharpless, Jr. Photo # 5234 & 5235 Photo made from cab of No. 48, Southerner as it passed Weems, Alabama, about to go under the Seaboard with eastbound freight overhead. Circa 1965 Photographer: Frank Ardrey Photo # 5236 Train No. 48, The Southerner Rear view of observation car after taking orders Passing Weems, Alabama on March 28,1948 Photographer: Frank E. Ardrey, Jr. Photo # 5237 Train No. 51, southbound on New River trestle, New River, Tennessee on C.N.O.&T.P. Southern Diesel Engines: 2548, 2584, 2511 and 2604 Color Photo # 5238 12