bama_ed
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Nerdy guys like me get excited about train t-shirts.
I got this t-shirt and ball cap from the North Carolina Transportation Museum. The shirt is an outline drawing of the Southern Railroad's 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive and tender that were its prime passenger line motive power from the early 1900's into the 1940's after WW2 (when diesels started taking over). The "PS-4" notation was the 'option package' that the Southern chose to equip these locomotives with.
The shirt is in the colors of the Southern (green and yellow).
Also is a Southern RR ballcap with its catch phrase "The Southern Serves The South" patch on front.
As fyi the Museum is in Spencer, NC just outside Charlotte where the SRR had its huge shops for locomotive refurbs, construction of box cars, reefers, and wood cabooses, and even built small loco's here. It ran from 1880s into the 1960s before closing. The location was chosen because Spencer was approximately half-way between Washington D.C. and Atlanta on the Southern main line.
Also of familial importance is this ACY box car. Never heard of the ACY? It was a short line railroad and the letters stand for Akron, Canton, and Youngstown (cities up in the northeast corner of Ohio). Of the cities in the name, it only made it to Akron and not the other two cities (go figure). It had less than 10 miles of its own track and leased another 170 miles for a few decades before buying the leased track outright.
The family connection to the ACY was that my grandfather (dad's dad) worked on the ACY loading and unloading box cars for a time at the Akron terminal. My dad is fuzzy on when he worked there and for how long (before my dad was born) but Grandpa was a railroad man at one time. Might have been the late 20s or 1930s. So I guess you can say that trains are in my blood.
The diet Coke can is in the picture for scale. The box car is 18 inches long. It is one that Aristo-Craft made and I had seen the ACY in my 2007 reference AC catalog but it rarely comes up for sale because it's a small line in a less populated area. So when I saw it on eBay I GRABBED it and it was a reasonable price.
Glad I did.
Ed
PS - the ACY line made it into the 1960s before getting bought and merged into the Norfolk & Western Railroad.
I got this t-shirt and ball cap from the North Carolina Transportation Museum. The shirt is an outline drawing of the Southern Railroad's 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive and tender that were its prime passenger line motive power from the early 1900's into the 1940's after WW2 (when diesels started taking over). The "PS-4" notation was the 'option package' that the Southern chose to equip these locomotives with.
The shirt is in the colors of the Southern (green and yellow).
Also is a Southern RR ballcap with its catch phrase "The Southern Serves The South" patch on front.
As fyi the Museum is in Spencer, NC just outside Charlotte where the SRR had its huge shops for locomotive refurbs, construction of box cars, reefers, and wood cabooses, and even built small loco's here. It ran from 1880s into the 1960s before closing. The location was chosen because Spencer was approximately half-way between Washington D.C. and Atlanta on the Southern main line.
Also of familial importance is this ACY box car. Never heard of the ACY? It was a short line railroad and the letters stand for Akron, Canton, and Youngstown (cities up in the northeast corner of Ohio). Of the cities in the name, it only made it to Akron and not the other two cities (go figure). It had less than 10 miles of its own track and leased another 170 miles for a few decades before buying the leased track outright.
The family connection to the ACY was that my grandfather (dad's dad) worked on the ACY loading and unloading box cars for a time at the Akron terminal. My dad is fuzzy on when he worked there and for how long (before my dad was born) but Grandpa was a railroad man at one time. Might have been the late 20s or 1930s. So I guess you can say that trains are in my blood.
The diet Coke can is in the picture for scale. The box car is 18 inches long. It is one that Aristo-Craft made and I had seen the ACY in my 2007 reference AC catalog but it rarely comes up for sale because it's a small line in a less populated area. So when I saw it on eBay I GRABBED it and it was a reasonable price.
Glad I did.
Ed
PS - the ACY line made it into the 1960s before getting bought and merged into the Norfolk & Western Railroad.
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