Our new 2010 calendar is being printed as we speak and will be ready to mail in early August. Order now and we'll get your copy, or copies, on the way at once. Our price is just $12.95 plus our reasonable shipping charge. The photo lineup this year is another great one:


      

Front cover: Front Cover Photo: Three of those beautiful Seaboard Air Line green and red E units, led by E7 3045, lead a couple of Geeps and a long string of pig flats at Richmond, Virginia, in September 1961. Seaboard began using E units on fast freights in the late 1950s whenever they were not needed for the railroad’s fleet of passenger trains. —David R. Sweetland photo.
January: Southbound Seaboard local No. 5, with E8 3053 leading five cars, cuts her way through the kudzu as the train approaches Howell Tower en route to Atlanta’s Terminal Station.
February: A Seaboard Coast Line mixed team of Tom Rice’s “black racehorses” pulls freight train No. 110 through Valrico, Florida, on January 2, 1976.
March: The slant nose of Atlantic Coast Line E6 515 is even more impressive in this surreal night fog scene.
April: An EMD for everyone! Seaboard GP9 1960 leads an FT A-B set, F3, and E7 A and B units on a freight at Richmond in September 1961.
May: The paint on ACL U25C 3012 is still tacky as she sits outside her Erie, Pennsylvania, birthplace awaiting movement to the south.
June: In the early days of the Seaboard Coast Line, the railroad tested various “mother-slug” duos.
July: Thanks to pioneering railfan photographers like David Salter, we can still enjoy crisp and dramatic images of the steam era on the Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard. ACL 4-6-2 1608 rolls a mixed freight over former Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast rails near Ben Hill, Georgia, in July 1949.
August: A mixed locomotive consist heads up No. 3, the southbound Auto-Train, at Sanford, Florida, in January 1981.
September: In this September 1967 scene, we see an old tradition, shipment of “remains” by rail. Seaboard motor car 2028, with its number and lettering still unchanged two months into the merger, leads two passenger cars from its Silver Meteor connection in Tampa.
October: Atlantic Coast Line Alco S2 34, now powered by an EMD 567 prime mover, crosses U.S. 52 with a tank car at North Charleston, South Carolina, in January 1966.
November: With the exception of the large exhaust stack, this is a typical Seaboard Alco S4; 1426 was the only unit to receive this homemade rectangular stack.
December: Two former ACL GP7s clatter over the diamonds at Yemassee, South Carolina, on December 7, 1975, heading for Port Royal along former Charleston & Western Carolina rails.
Rear cover: Baby, oh baby! Three of SCL’s U18Bs, dubbed “baby boats,” lead a mixed bag of a scale test car, a loaded wheel car, a covered hopper, a switcher-slug combo in tow, camp cars, and who knows what else.


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