SCL
Seaboard Coast Line
This 1985 Carstens Classic is a pictoral history of the Seaboard Coast Line focused on Florida!
Black and yellow SCL locomotives arrived with the 1967 merger of Atlantic Coast Line with the Seaboard Air Line railroad. From phosphates to Florida orange juice, from long passenger runs and special circus moves to a diverse fleet of diesels; You’ll
enjoy 116 pages of quality black and white photography.
Snow Freight On the Strasburg
The Strasburg Rail Road was hostto a photo charter organized by Carl Franz on February 15, 2014. One of the first stops in the morning was at Leaman Place Junction in Paradise, Pa., where Strasburg 4-8-0 No. 475 met Amtrak AEM7 No. 905 (above). Shortly thereafter was joined by ex-Canadian National 2-6-0 No. 89 for some doubleheaded runbys (below).
THE STRASBURG RAIL ROAD in Lancaster County, Pa., has been a favorite for photo charters for several years now. With a nifty roster of four locomotives and an impressive fleet of vintage freight cars, it provides one of the best photo charter opportunities in the eastern United States. Winter charters are particular favorites, with organizers and participants hoping for falling snow or at least snow on the ground. Lancaster County usually doesn’t get significant snow fall in
the winter, so getting snow when you want it is rare, and even snow covering the ground is present for maybe ten per cent of the days in winter. Even with those odds, two excur- sions in the past few years have been held with significant accumulations on the frozen fields, with one of those occurring on Febru- ary 15 of this year. A nor’easter dumped a lot of snow on Strasburg on Thursday into Fri- day for the Saturday charter sponsored by Carl Franz. Power for the trip was ex-Nor-
PHOTOGRAPHY: STEVE BARRY
, No. 475
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