N&W/Southern thru passenger service

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Charlie (et all):
 
The Piedmont went up the (old) WNC to Asheville.  In contrast to the  
Southern Crescent, which used those beautiful E-8s, the Piedmont used  FP-7s.
 
Dave Phelps
 
 
In a message dated 11/27/2012 7:03:44 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

Not to  be forgotten, my list friends, is that the Southern ran their three 
Lynchburg  trains well after Amtrak started. Without looking up dates, the 
Lynchburg  Special (the remnant of the Birmingham Special or Tennessean) was 
cancelled  first. The Piedmont, an SR Washington/Atlanta (?) only train was 
next. The  Southern Crescent survived by becoming part of AMTRAK in the 
fall of '78. The  D&RGW was the only (I think)other RR to keep their regularly 
scheduled  passenger trains after AMTRAK.
Charlie Long
Lynchburg, VA  


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>Subject: Re:  N&W/Southern thru passenger service

>

>Thanks for the  answers.  I reason I asked was a photo in the new Southern 

in color V3  was captioned as a southbound train that would be going over 
the N&W. It  was dated for after Amtrak day.  So I say the caption is  wrong!

>

>James Wall

>Rural Hall,  NC

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