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MONON Activity Post Merger => L&N - Monon Sub => Topic started by: Joe Land on June 12, 2012, 12:18:02 pm
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SBD #4054 with Inspection Train, Campbellsburg,IN. 8-86, Lloyd Kimble collection
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Was this a normal SBD inspection train with the second car a dome? Anyone seen any side shots of the passenger cars?
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That is the only photo of the inspection train I have found in Lloyd's slides, so far......
I still have a hundred or more to scan. If another is found, I will post it.
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Still, a nice picture. Disappearing Americana. Trains passing through small towns.
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I emailed the photo to a knowlegable passenger car guy, who replied:
"The second car is some sort of heavyweight. You are seeing the air conditioning ductwork on the roof along the clerestory." It still looks like a dome to me.
Also if this is an Aug. 1986 photo, then it may be CSX. At least I've read where the CSXT was formed from the SBD in June, 1986. From Wikipedia:
"Once the ICC approved of the merger, the Seaboard System Railroad was renamed as CSX Transportation on June 1, 1986. The railroad began applying the CSX Transportation logo and paint scheme on a few of its locomotives. On April 30, 1987, the Baltimore & Ohio was merged into the Chesapeake & Ohio; with the C&O merging into CSX Transportation on August 30, 1987. All the major parts of CSX were now one company."
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"Effective July 1, 1986, the Seaboard System was merged with the Chessie System to form CSX Transportation."
Stew
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I just passed along what Lloyd wrote on the slide frame.....
It was probably really CSX at the time the photo was taken, just not yet painted in CSX livery.