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Pictures of SOU 6905
Owner:
Southern
Model:
EMD E8A
Built As:
CNOTP 2928 (E8A)
Serial Number:
14177
Order No:
2049
Frame Number:
2049-A2
Built:
9/1951
Notes:
ex-CNOTP 2928, re# SOU 6905
Other locos with this serial:
SOU 6905(E8A)
SOU 2928(E8A)
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Title:
SR 6905
Description:
(Date approximate)
Photo Date:
7/7/1973
Upload Date:
1/9/2012 12:10:20 PM
Location:
Alexandria, VA
Author:
Robert Farkas
Categories:
Passenger
Locomotives:
SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:
864
Comments:
3
Title:
Southern 6905
Description:
Photo Date:
7/7/1973
Upload Date:
4/21/2020 12:44:51 PM
Location:
Alexandria, VA
Author:
Robert Farkas
Categories:
Roster
Locomotives:
SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:
468
Comments:
1
Title:
SR 6905
Description:
Photo Date:
7/7/1973
Upload Date:
7/1/2013 10:34:42 PM
Location:
Alexandria, VA
Author:
Robert Farkas
Categories:
Passenger
Locomotives:
SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:
769
Comments:
5
Title:
Southern Railway Train No. 2
Description:
Southern Railway train No. 2 – the northbound
SOUTHERN CRESCENT
– was at the station in Slidell, Louisiana with E8A 6905, FP7A’s 6147, 6145 and 6148, and nine cars: baggage-dormitory 710, coaches 843, 828 and SCL 5467, diner 3306, 10-6 sleeping cars 2012
SALUDA RIVER
, 3401
FRENCH BROAD RIVER
and un-named Amtrak 2695; and dome parlor 1602. During 1974 FP7’s were often used on Nos. 1 and 2, but not this many!
Photo Date:
4/26/1974
Upload Date:
4/30/2021 5:34:58 PM
Location:
Slidell, LA
Author:
JAMES H. SELZER, JR. image
Categories:
Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:
588
Comments:
0
Title:
SOU 6905
Description:
A colorful assortment of power sits at the Ivy City Engine Terminal in Washington DC on a September day in 1975. Front and center is Southern Railway E8A 6905 (ex-SOU 2928, built 9/51), still in passenger service for the Southern Railway (which did not initially join the Amtrak system when it was formed in 1971). Hiding behind the E-unit is Baltimore & Ohio 6606, a steam-generator equipped GP9 used on Washington to Baltimore commuter trains. And behind that is an assortment of Amtrak SDP40F diesels (582 and, behind that, 609, with others not visible).
Photo Date:
9/1/1975
Upload Date:
2/3/2013 9:49:08 PM
Location:
Ivy City, DC
Author:
Douglas G. Walker
Categories:
Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:
SOU 6905(E8A)
BO 6606(GP9)
AMTK 582(SDP40F)
AMTK 609(SDP40F)
Views:
1075
Comments:
0
Title:
SOU 6905 Thomas Nelson, Jr. of Virginia
Description:
In 1976, the Southern paid tribute to the American Bicentennial with banners for the signers of the Declaration of Independence from the Southern's territory.
Photo Date:
5/1/1976
Upload Date:
1/24/2006 7:14:39 PM
Location:
Atlanta, GA
Author:
Frank Greene
Categories:
Locomotives:
SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:
971
Comments:
0
Title:
Southern Railway Train No. 2
Description:
Southern Railway Train No. 2 – the northbound
SOUTHERN CRESCENT
– was heading into the morning sun as it made its way out of New Orleans at the Canal Boulevard Underpass. The 12-car train consisted of E8A units 6905, 6902 and 6914, baggage-dormitory car 711, coaches 840, 844, 835, 834 and 3789, 10-roomette/6-double-bedroom sleeping cars 2016
ST. JOHNS RIVER
and 2006
OCMULGEE RIVER
, diner 3311, dome coach 1613, coach 837 and 11-bedroom sleeper 2301
ROYAL COURT
.
Photo Date:
6/3/1977
Upload Date:
10/18/2021 9:38:01 AM
Location:
New Orleans, LA
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:
712
Comments:
0
Title:
Southern E8 and SCL GP40-2
Description:
While the northbound Southern Crescent waits at the former sight of Birmingham Terminal Station a few SCL units pass on the way to Atlanta.
Photo Date:
9/10/1978
Upload Date:
11/2/2008 3:36:46 PM
Location:
Birmingham, AL
Author:
Gary Morris
Categories:
Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
SOU 6905(E8A)
SCL 1646(GP40-2)
Views:
1074
Comments:
4
Title:
Southern Crescent power at Ivy City
Description:
Southern Railway E8A's lay over during the day at the Ivy City engine terminal
Photo Date:
10/22/1978
Upload Date:
1/11/2010 6:08:15 PM
Location:
Washington, DC
Author:
Bill Wilcox
Categories:
Roster,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:
SOU 6907(E8A)
SOU 6905(E8A)
SOU 6912(E8A)
SOU 6914(E8A)
Views:
1510
Comments:
2
Title:
NB CRESCENT
Description:
Just 10 days after Amtrak took over operation of the CRESCENT, train 20 was making its station stop at Meridian. The trains cosisted of E8A's 6909, 6913 and 6905 and nine cars: baggage-dormitory car 1406, coaches 817, 5285 and 844, coach-lounge 3850, diner 8382, and 10-6 sleepers 2002 DAN RIVER, 2860 TYE RIVER and 2862 FRENCH BROAD RIVER. Except for the Amtrak baggage-dormitory car and the ex-Southern coach-lounge, the train looks much as it did when it was the SOUTHERN CRESCENT. Cars 5285, 3850, 8382, 2860 and 2862 were lettered SOUTHERN but wore Amtrak numbers, while car 817, 844 and 2002 still had their Southern lettering and numbers.
Photo Date:
2/10/1979
Upload Date:
10/21/2007 3:39:34 PM
Location:
Meridian, MS
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Station,Passenger
Locomotives:
SOU 6909(E8A)
SOU 6913(E8A)
SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:
2311
Comments:
4
Title:
SOU E8A 6905
Description:
Southern Railway E8A 6905 was being watered on the northbound
CRESCENT
at Meridian, Mississippi while on a 6-month lease to Amtrak. The locomotive was built in September 1951 as the 2928, and it was modified with dynamic brakes and roof-mounted air tanks in 1958. It was renumbered 6905 in 1972, was leased to Amtrak on 1 February 1979, and was shipped to Precision National Corp. on 3 November 1979.
Photo Date:
2/10/1979
Upload Date:
10/23/2017 4:52:12 PM
Location:
Meridian, MS
Author:
Michael Palmieri
Categories:
Roster
Locomotives:
SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:
963
Comments:
1
Title:
Amtrak Crescent, southbound, April, 1979
Description:
Photo Date:
12/31/2005
Upload Date:
1/4/2006 10:05:54 AM
Location:
Purvis, MS
Author:
John Sita
Categories:
Locomotives:
SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:
804
Comments:
0
Title:
Southern Crescent, northbound, July, 1978 [2]
Description:
Photo Date:
12/31/2005
Upload Date:
1/3/2006 2:09:16 PM
Location:
Hattiesburg, MS
Author:
John Sita
Categories:
Locomotives:
SOU 6910(E8A)
SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:
1512
Comments:
0
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