The Southern's yard and station at Danville, Ky., looked like this in 1907. Milton J. Durham of Danville sent TIES the picture.
This remarkably clear photograph of a Southern engine was taken at the railway's South Richmond (Va.) yard sometime during 1894 or 1895. The fashionably dressed engineer was William C. Fear.
Birmingham division derrick and crew in 1910. Engineer A. C. Carroll is on the derrick. The others, left to right, are: T. L. Mauldin, foreman; Ed Askew, fireman; Ben Robinson, cook; and ground men Gus Johnson, Ed Robinson, Ed Johnson, and Arthur Robinson. The photograph was loaned to TIES by W. T. Harper, who retired recently as yardmaster for the Southern at Birmingham, Ala. |
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