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Owner: Southern
Type: Other/Not Listed
Plate:   C
User Notes:   Built 5/1953 as SOU 60683

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Southern Railway's steam program was so well organized that they even had the shop design a car to load coal from a gondola into the coal tender, as is taking place just east of the depot
Title:  Southern Railway's steam program was so well organized that they even had the shop design a car to load coal from a gondola into the coal tender, as is taking place just east of the depot
Description:  2-8-4 getting a topping of coal in the tender prior to the unit turning the Wye and heading back up the "P" line for Birmingham
Photo Date:  11/14/1981  Upload Date: 6/28/2009 6:37:26 PM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Bernie Feltman
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  SOU 2716(2-8-4) CO 2716(2-8-4)
Views:  3584   Comments: 5
Southern Railway #2716 (K-4 class 2-8-4 aka C&O "Kanawha type" 2716) being coaled mid-excursion
Title:  Southern Railway #2716 (K-4 class 2-8-4 aka C&O "Kanawha type" 2716) being coaled mid-excursion
Description:  Southern Railway 2-8-4 #2716, after being having its tender loaded with coal, will back around the east leg of the Opeika wye and rejoin its train for the return trip to Birmingham
Photo Date:  11/14/1981  Upload Date: 6/28/2009 7:15:40 PM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Bernie Feltman
Categories:  Roster,Steam,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 2716(2-8-4) CO 2716(2-8-4)
Views:  1944   Comments: 5
Specially equipped coal gondola Southern Railway #900096 has topped off 2716's tender and the operator is retracting the loading boom
Title:  Specially equipped coal gondola Southern Railway #900096 has topped off 2716's tender and the operator is retracting the loading boom
Description:  2716 will ease forward a few feet to clear the wye switch and begin the process of backing around the Opelika Wye. After turning the power the crew will rejoin the train's consist, wyed during the coaling operation, and sitting directly behind the tender on the main track. 2716 will make an early evening arrival back at Birmingham's Terminal Station
Photo Date:  11/14/1981  Upload Date: 6/28/2009 7:39:42 PM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Bernie Feltman
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  SOU 2716(2-8-4) CO 2716(2-8-4)
Views:  1772   Comments: 4
Southern Railway 2-8-4#2716 has been serviced (coal was loaded from specially designed car to the right - SOU 900096) and is in the process of being wyed to rejoin its Birmingham bound excursion train
Title:  Southern Railway 2-8-4#2716 has been serviced (coal was loaded from specially designed car to the right - SOU 900096) and is in the process of being wyed to rejoin its Birmingham bound excursion train
Description:  Southern Railway "Kanawha type" 2-8-4 #2716, a 1944 product of ALCO built for Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad as C&O 2716
Photo Date:  11/14/1981  Upload Date: 6/28/2009 6:49:49 PM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Bernie Feltman
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 2716(2-8-4) CO 2716(2-8-4)
Views:  1395   Comments: 3


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