After a Subway lunch, it was time for some pictures.
The train getting ready to leave.
CaterParrott caboose 638, originally Southern X638, built by the railway.
CaterParrott SW1500 3000 built by Electro-Motive Division in 1972 as Terminal Railway Association 1502. It was time to board the train for the afternoon trip to Valdosta. Elizabeth and I sat in the same seats with Bart and Sarah Jennings right behind us. There were a few of the rare mileage passengers aboard these trips.
We left Nashville five minutes early with all passengers aboard.
The train passed this CaterParrott caboose 5744, originally Seaboard Air Line, built by International Car in 1963. Now sit back and enjoy the southern Georgia scenery.
The trip to Ray City.
The trip to Moody Air Force Base where Randy Jackson was stationed from 1976 to 1978.
The train passed Moody Air Force Base.
The last picture before the train reached Valdosta. On the return trip I talked with David and Randy then Elizabeth bought two CaterParrott coffee mugs.
Owner Chris Parrott talking with a friend. The train returned us all to Nashville and we said our goodbyes to our friends and thanked the crew for two most excellent trips.
On to FloridaElizabeth and I headed back to Tifton to get petrol before we drove to Sylvester to get the steam engine that we drove past coming east.
Georgia, Ashburn, Sylvester & Camilla 2-8-2 100 at Jeffords Park in Sylvester built by Baldwin in 1930. South Georgia businessman J. N. Pidcock organised the Georgia, Ashburn, Sylvester & Camilla Railway in 1922 to buy the Ashburn-Camilla line from the Gulf Line Railway, which was owned by the Hawkinsville & Florida Southern. Founded in 1889 by the businessman G. V. Gress and others as a lumber line, the ninety-three mile H&FS had entered receivership and was being broken up. Pidcock bought the fifty one mile Ashburn to Camilla section of the line and operated the GAS&C as part of his Georgia Northern Railway system. In 1966, the Southern Railway took over the line and, in 1972, merged it and the Albany & Northern into the Georgia Northern.
I drove us to Hilton to our first covered bridge in Georgia.
The information sign about the railroad.
The Coheelee Creek Covered Bridge sign which is the southernmost covered bridge in America.
The Coheelee Creek Covered Bridge.
Fannie Askew Williams Park sign.
The Coheelee Creek Covered Bridge historical sign. We drove back to the highway but had to pull over.
Hilton and Albany SD40-2 3351, originally Burlington Northern 8036, built by Electro-Motive Division in 1979.
Columbus and Chattahoochee SD40-2 3348 ex Burlington Northern 7182, built by Electro-Motive Division in 1979. From here we drove into Alabama.
The Central of Georgia Columbia station. Our next stop was in Ashford.
The Ashford depot historical sign.
The Alabama Midland station built in 1888.
Chesapeake and Ohio caboose 3317 built by International Car Company in 1971 and painted as Atlantic Coast Line caboose 903317.
Seaboard Coast Line 50 foot box car 26897. Elizabeth then drove us the rest of the way to Marianna, Florida where we checked into the Quality Inn. I went to Arby's and got a roast beef sandwich for me and a salad for Elizabeth. We worked on the stories and called it a night.
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