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Owner: Southern
Model:EMD E8ABuilt As:AGS 6909 (E8A)
Serial Number:19007Order No:2063
Frame Number:2063-A4Built:12/1953
Notes:ex-AGS
Other locos with this serial:  SOU 6909(E8A)
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Southern E8s 6906 and 6909
Title:  Southern E8s 6906 and 6909
Description:  The tracks in the foreground are the Northeast Corridor tracks.
Photo Date:  1/11/1969  Upload Date: 5/3/2007 4:03:13 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6906(E8A) SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  1096   Comments: 1
SCL 523
Title:  SCL 523
Description:  SCL 523 and SOU 6909 rest at Ivy City.
Photo Date:  1/26/1969  Upload Date: 8/30/2010 11:50:30 PM
Location:  Washington, DC
Author:  Henry Frick
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A) SCL 523(E6A)
Views:  1236   Comments: 0
SOU #1
Title:  SOU #1
Description:  -6909-2928(E-8As)
Photo Date:  12/31/1971  Upload Date: 9/13/2011 10:05:55 AM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Gil Ford
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  282   Comments: 0
SOU 6909
Title:  SOU 6909
Description:  The northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT is about 20 minutes out of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, and the fireman is in position to get his orders at N.E. Tower. Back in the train, the baggage man and the conductor are prepared to do the same thing. Todal's train has green E8A's 6909 and 6912 bracketing black FP7A's 6132 and 6147. During 1974 and early 1975, various combinations of E- and FP-units were not uncommon on the train south of Atlanta. The signals protect a crossing with the L&N main line, and the track in the foregrmund was an L&N branch to the Mississippi River.
Photo Date:  7/10/1974  Upload Date: 6/6/2009 6:13:13 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  1563   Comments: 3
Southern Railway TMain No. 2
Title:  Southern Railway TMain No. 2
Description:  An hour after leaving New Orleans, Southern Railway’s northbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT was pulling up to the station in Slidell, Louisiana for its first stot. The train had its usual motive power, four green E8A units, along with a couple of deadheading cars on the head end. Sleeper 2012 SALUDA RIVER wasn’t unusual; but combine 727 FORT MITCHELL was, as this may have been the only time that the 727 had been on this end of the railroad. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  11/1/1975  Upload Date: 3/2/2021 12:07:53 PM
Location:  Slidell, LA
Author:  JAMDS H. SELZER, JR. image
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  442   Comments: 0
SOU E8A!6909
Title:  SOU E8A!6909
Description:  While many railroads gave locomitves special paint schemes to celebrate the nation's bicentennial, the Southern Railway applied decals to its passenger units hmnoring Southern Signers of the Declaration of Independence. This shot of the 6909 outside of the New Arleans Union Passenger Terminal diesel shop includes all sorts of details, including the General Electric alternators on each axle which wewe a part of the wheel-slip control system. (date approximate(
Photo Date:  5/1/1976  Upload Date: 6/6/2010 10:47:00 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Paul H. Oliver, Jr.
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  1354   Comments: 1
SOU 6909 George Wythe of Virginia
Title:  SOU 6909 George Wythe of Virginia
Description:  In 1976, the Southern paid tribute to the American Bicentennial with banners for the signers of the Declaration of Independence from the Southern's territory.
Photo Date:  5/1/1976  Upload Date: 1/24/2006 7:14:41 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Frank Greene
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  617   Comments: 0
The Southbound <I>SOUTHERN CRESCENT</I>
Title:  The Southbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT
Description:  Southern Railway GP7 8300 was beginning to switch train No. 1 - the southbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT - in the Atlanta station by removing the locomotives which had brought the train in from Washington: E8A units 6910, 6909, 6906 and 6901. In the distance were the units which would power the train to New Orleans - the 6911, 6902 and 6913 - along with freshly-stocked diner 3869 and dome car 1613. After replacing the power, the 8300 would remove the last five cars which had come in from Washington and then add these two cars to the rear of the train. This was a regular procedure on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, when No. 1 ran all the way from Washington to New Orleans. Dome cars did not run north of Atlanta because there wasn't enough clearance in the tunnel leading into Washington Union Station.
Photo Date:  5/17/1977  Upload Date: 6/23/2020 6:03:37 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. photo
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  436   Comments: 0
SOU 6909
Title:  SOU 6909
Description:  The Southern Crescent prepares to make her station stop at Alexandria just after sunset. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1977  Upload Date: 8/7/2009 10:14:58 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  610   Comments: 1
Southern 6909
Title:  Southern 6909
Description:  The second unit (of four) on the Southern Crescent at New Orleans on February 28,1978.
Photo Date:  2/28/1978  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 10:56:36 AM
Location:  New Orleans - NOUPT, LA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  241   Comments: 0
Southern Railway E8A 6913 & 6909
Title:  Southern Railway E8A 6913 & 6909
Description:  Power for Southern Crescent
Photo Date:  12/29/1978  Upload Date: 4/6/2012 3:13:35 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Frank A. Phillips Jr.
Categories:  Roster,Model
Locomotives:  SOU 6913(E8A) SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  907   Comments: 1
Southern Railway E8A 6913 - 6909
Title:  Southern Railway E8A 6913 - 6909
Description:  Power for Crescent
Photo Date:  12/29/1978  Upload Date: 4/6/2012 3:10:53 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Frank A. Phillips Jr.
Categories:  Roster,Model
Locomotives:  SOU 6913(E8A) SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  563   Comments: 0
NB CRESCENT
Title:  NB CRESCENT
Description:  Just 10 days after Amtrak took over operation of the CRESCENT, train 20 was making its station stop at Meridian. The trains cosisted of E8A's 6909, 6913 and 6905 and nine cars: baggage-dormitory car 1406, coaches 817, 5285 and 844, coach-lounge 3850, diner 8382, and 10-6 sleepers 2002 DAN RIVER, 2860 TYE RIVER and 2862 FRENCH BROAD RIVER. Except for the Amtrak baggage-dormitory car and the ex-Southern coach-lounge, the train looks much as it did when it was the SOUTHERN CRESCENT. Cars 5285, 3850, 8382, 2860 and 2862 were lettered SOUTHERN but wore Amtrak numbers, while car 817, 844 and 2002 still had their Southern lettering and numbers.
Photo Date:  2/10/1979  Upload Date: 10/21/2007 3:39:34 PM
Location:  Meridian, MS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A) SOU 6913(E8A) SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:  2112   Comments: 4
Southern 6909
Title:  Southern 6909
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/1/1979  Upload Date: 2/17/2023 9:39:13 AM
Location:  Arlington, VA
Author:  Dick Leonhardt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  99   Comments: 0
Amtrak Crescent, southbound, April, 1979
Title:  Amtrak Crescent, southbound, April, 1979
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2005  Upload Date: 1/4/2006 10:06:35 AM
Location:  Purvis, MS
Author:  John Sita
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  684   Comments: 1
Southern Crescent, NOUPT, July, 1978
Title:  Southern Crescent, NOUPT, July, 1978
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2005  Upload Date: 1/3/2006 2:07:51 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  John Sita
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  743   Comments: 2
Southern Crescent, northbound, summer of 1974
Title:  Southern Crescent, northbound, summer of 1974
Description:  That little boy is my cousin. I think the train stopped in town.
Photo Date:  12/31/2005  Upload Date: 1/1/2006 12:31:17 AM
Location:  Purvis, MS
Author:  John Sita
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  1209   Comments: 3
Southern Crescent, northbound, July, 1978
Title:  Southern Crescent, northbound, July, 1978
Description:  We chased the train up to Slidell - it's a good thing the RR trestle across the lake had a low speed limit.
Photo Date:  12/31/2005  Upload Date: 1/3/2006 2:11:18 PM
Location:  Slidell, LA
Author:  John Sita
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  1016   Comments: 1


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