Family Album



CNO&TP switch engine No.504 and the men who manned it are shown in this picture snapped at Oakdale, Tenn.,in 1916. Clyde Giilespie of Oakdale, who sent in the print, is shown at extreme left. He identified the others as follows: (on train, left to right) W. C. Kries, Clyde Cooper, William Williams, Bob Jenkins, and John Neathery (on ground).

All dressed up and obviously going places is this East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railway train photographed sometime prior to 1894, the year the ETV&G became a part of Southern Railway. The picture came from the collection of H. E. Copeland, Sr.. South Pittsburg. Tenn., by permission of the owner of the original, Judge J. Fred Bibb, of Knoxville, who is the son of Engineer John Bibb shown in the cab.

Pictured at Greensboro, N. C., in 1897, this locomotive with its king-size headlight once belonged to the North Carolina Railroad, a line Southern. Railway began operating under a 99-year lease in 1896. The picture came from Shelby Lowe, clerk at Southern Inman Yard, Atlanta, Ga., who identifled the two men as Engineer L. A. Atkisson (left) and Fireman George Sasser. Both have died.