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Trainnews - volume 3 - issue 134
Author: Espee99
Date: 06-17-2010 - 20:11

Trainnews - volume 3 - issue 134 - 06/17/10

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Editors Notice- Folks I am sorry but another evening at the office. Please enjoy the photo and RR history Trainnews will return tomorrow evening.

This day in Railroad History
June 17, 1953
A ceremony at Chattanooga, Tennessee, heralds arrival of the Southern Railway's final steam-powered freight train. As Mikado No. 6330 eases to a halt at Citico yard, SR becomes first major American railroad to completely dieselize, and 123 years of Southern steam comes to an end. "After greeting ceremonies, #6330 was shunted to ash pit and the bottom folded out of her boiler, the orange-red steaming coals dumped on the ground. She had come to the very end of the line. Her bell will be given to (the town of Oakdale); her whistle to a factory. That is all that will be saved."(Chattanooga Times article)
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Tonight's Photo - Please send photos to trainnews1@yahoo.com. Thanks for sending interesting photos, please keep them comming. I am running low again, so please those who have not sent photos in a while please submit some of your work for 'Today;s Photo'
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DODX #220 – The business end of the FRA Inspection train in La Crosse WI. 6/6/10.

Jim Matuska Photo

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