The "Chicago & Florida Limited," an early predecessor of Southern's present Chicago-Miami train, the "Royal Palm," is shown near Valdosta, Ga. in 1907 in this picture sent to TIES by Shelby F. Lowe, clerk at the Southern's Inman Yard office, Atlanta.
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Southern Railway switch engine 531, its polished boiler plates gleaming in the sunlight, provided an appropriate backdrop for this scene shot at Hickory, N. C., sometime in 1924. The men were (left to right): S. H. Goodwin, trainmaster (deceased); W. E. Gosnold, engineer; L. D. Frye, switchman (retired); E. L. Aiken, fireman (now engineer and writer of lyrics to" 'Bye Bye Black Smoke Choo Choo") J. W. Winkler, switchman J. M. Roberts, switchman C. Seagle, ticket agent ; and J. A. Steelman, agent The man at extreme right could not not be identified by Mr. Aiken, who sent in the picture.
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