I love riding thru Pomona. When I was a young rail fan the amount of cars there was incredible. Local freights to Winston ; Mt Airy, Sanford, New Bern DURHAM AND AT LEAST 20 mainline freight and 12 to 16 passenger. I just wish I had film. There was no video.
@@leonation89 I started going to the train station in Greensboro with my grandfather who was in railroad engineering during world war 1 about. 1956. He turned me into a rail fan . We rode K2s from Winston to Roanoke. I’m a follower of the Green and white Southern Railroad. I will never forget Union Station in DC during the late fifties and early sixties. Crazy amount of trains. Southern ran F7s on freights thru the early 70s. Wish I had the money for film back then. ACL was so colorful. Never forget the purple when we would go to DC usually on the all coach Southerner. Crescent was all Pullman back then. I’m old now but I still go to Pomona and think about my Grandfather and watch the trains
My father was a Southern Railway trainman, working out of WS,NC. He started in 1948 on the Atlantic and Yadkin. Southern absorbed them in tithe corporation on January 1, 1950. He transferred to WS then. They had more and better paying jobs. The WS train master managed the A&Y.
I love riding thru Pomona. When I was a young rail fan the amount of cars there was incredible. Local freights to Winston ; Mt Airy, Sanford, New Bern DURHAM AND AT LEAST 20 mainline freight and 12 to 16 passenger. I just wish I had film. There was no video.
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@@leonation89 I started going to the train station in Greensboro with my grandfather who was in railroad engineering during world war 1 about. 1956. He turned me into a rail fan . We rode K2s from Winston to Roanoke. I’m a follower of the Green and white Southern Railroad. I will never forget Union Station in DC during the late fifties and early sixties. Crazy amount of trains. Southern ran F7s on freights thru the early 70s. Wish I had the money for film back then. ACL was so colorful. Never forget the purple when we would go to DC usually on the all coach Southerner. Crescent was all Pullman back then. I’m old now but I still go to Pomona and think about my Grandfather and watch the trains
My father was a Southern Railway trainman, working out of WS,NC. He started in 1948 on the Atlantic and Yadkin. Southern absorbed them in tithe corporation on January 1, 1950. He transferred to WS then. They had more and better paying jobs. The WS train master managed the A&Y.
The 1639 with the N&W sticker on it was in HP yard for the longest time
Looks nice
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