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Shipping Watermelons on the Coast Line and Se The Publication of the Atlantic Coast Line and Vol. 30, No. 3 Seaboard Air Line Railroads Historical Society, Inc. 3rd Quarter 2013 $8.95 In this Issue: LINES • ACL and SAL Second-Generation Diesels SOUTH • Watermelon Season — Shipping Watermelons on the Coast Line and Seaboard, Part 2 • Jack Freed’s ACL Passenger Service Career, Part 1: Washington Union Station 1941-1954 • ACL’s Eastern North Carolina Branchlines, Part 1: New Bern Branch Membership Classes Regular: $35 for one year or $65 for two years. Sustaining: $60 for one year or $115 for two years. These amounts in- LINES clude $25 and $50, respectively, in tax-deductible contributions. Century Club: $135 for one year, which includes a complimentary calen- dar and a tax-deductible contribution of $87. We gladly accept other contributions, either financial or historical SOUTH materials for our archives, all of which are tax-deductible to the extent Volume 30, No. 3, 3rd Quarter 2013 provided by law. Your membership dues include quarterly issues of Lines south, participa- The Publication of the Atlantic Coast Line and tion in Society-sponsored events and projects, voting rights on issues brought Seaboard Air Line Railroads Historical Society, Inc. before the membership, and research assistance on members’ questions. Please remit to: ACL & SAL HS LINES SOUTH STAFF (note new address) P.O. Box 490563 Leesburg, FL 34749-0563 Editor Make all checks payable to “ACL & SAL H. S.” Or, use your MasterCard, Larry Goolsby Visa or Discover; or use our PayPal option via our web site. Associate Editor Foreign: Membership with delivery via surface mail is $60 per year or William C. Dusenbury $120 for two years. For sustaining foreign memberships, add $25 for one year and $50 for two years. We can accept foreign memberships only by Editor Emeritus Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or PayPal. Joseph L. Oates Renewals and Address Changes: Please send all renewals and address Circulation Manager & Membership Chairman changes to (note new address): Circulation, ACL & SAL H. S., P.O. Box A. B. “Buck” Dean 490563, Leesburg, FL 34749-0563. Please notify us well in advance if you move; the Postal Service charges us a substantial fee for issues sent to an old Design and Production address, and we cannot cover the cost of remailing your issue. Please help White River Productions us and yourself by letting us know where you are! Don’t forget to add the 4 PO Box 9580, Kansas City, MO 64133 digit extension on your zip code, required now by the Postal Service. 816-285-6560 [email protected] On the Web at: http://www.aclsal.org Available Back Issues Certain back issues of Lines south are available through our Product Sales department; please see our catalog in the “Lines for Members” newsletter inserted into the middle of this magazine or on our web site. BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Atlantic Coast Line & Seaboard Air Line Warren Calloway, Vice President Railroads Historical Society 7413 Glenharden Drive, Raleigh, NC 27613 The society was formed in July 1983 as the Southeastern Railroad Techni- A. B. “Buck” Dean cal Society, and in 1993 was formally organized as the ACL & SAL Rail- 8390 Hedgewood Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32216 roads Historical Society to better reflect the railroads covered.The Society is incorporated in Florida as a nonprofit corporation and is recognized by the Larry Denton, Treasurer IRS as a 501 (c) (3) educational group. The Society’s mission is to preserve 6516 Hwy. 903, Roanoke Rapids, NC 27870-8535 and disseminate the history of the Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line, William C. Dusenbury, Secretary and Seaboard Coast Line railroads and their subsidiaries, affiliates, and pre- decessors (including the Georgia Railroad, Atlanta & West Point Rail Road, 1006 Griffin Road, Leesburg, FL 34748 Western Railway of Alabama, and Clinchfield). We welcome memberships Larry Goolsby and donations; see the enclosed “Lines for Members” insert or our web site 10503 Meredith Avenue, Kensington, MD 20895-2922 for more details, or contact us by mail. Joseph L. Oates, President Printed in the United States of America 509 Cocoplum Drive, Seffner, FL 33584-4613 Gary Riccio Don’t Miss Your renewal! 21 Velock Drive, Little Ferry, NJ 07643-2032 If the last line of your mailing label has: The Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line, and Expires 3rd Quarter, 2013 Seaboard Coast Line marks are the property of You need to renew now! CSX Corporation and are used under license from CSX © 2013, ACL & SAL HS See details at the top right portion of this page. Please consider a tax-deductible contribution to us through a sustaining membership or the Century Club! 2 LINES 3rd Quarter 2013 SOUTH TABLE OF CONTENTS lines… froM the eDitor 4 ACL And sAL sECond-gEnErAtion I’m going to bet that at least some of you are asking the same question diEsELs we have here at Lines South … can it really be almost 30 years since the first issue came out??! Well, yes; the next issue, Third Quarter, will • by Warren Calloway mark our official 30th anniversary edition. And of course we’re going to celebrate with some special features in that issue, but why wait to begin? We think this issue itself is pretty special. We first commend your attention 16 wAtErmELon sEAson — shiPPing to two more recollections by former employees, one on summer work on wAtErmELons on thE CoAst LinE And a Seaboard signal gang by Henry Sheldon and the other on ACL engine sEABoArd, PArt 2 service by Wise Hardin. We always find articles like these to be rich in • by Russell Tedder details, insights and understanding of the railroad business that just aren’t available anywhere else. 25 JACk FrEEd’s ACL PAssEngEr sErviCE This issue also has a great lineup of operations and equipment history, CArEEr, PArt 1: wAshington Union including another deep dive into Florida’s early rail history by Ken Murdock and Warren McFarland. And don t miss the feature on Lulu Belle, the stAtion, 1941-1954 ’ “ ” boxy purple diesel invader that must have struck the citizens of Wilmington • by Alan Freed as partly bizarre, partly amusing back in 1939. Unbeknownst to them 30 ACL’s EAstErn north CAroLinA at the time, this curious locomotive paved the way for ACL’s complete BrAnChLinEs, PArt 1: dieselization just 16 years later. NEw BErn BrAnCh Another way we’re celebrating our three decades is to begin some changes in the magazine. You may have already noticed this issue has • by Michael Dunn 40 pages of article content. This costs us more to produce of course, so to help keep costs down we’ve decided to streamline the “Lines for Members” CoLUmns And departmEnts: newsletter and provide it as a separate insert. Full details on newsletter LinEs… From thE Editor . 3 features are available on our website. We’d like to keep up this increased EditoriAL PoLiCy And sUBmissions gUidELinEs . 3 page count, but we’ll need your ongoing support and that of many others out there who may not know about Lines South or who have neglected to hoBBy shoP List . 39 renew. We need your help to spread the word and keep our membership numbers up. As always, let us hear your opinion about our efforts or if you d like to contribute an article or other materials. Larry Goolsby Front cover: Three Seaboard GP40s ’ — led by 643 and 605 strike an elegant pose on a curve at Apex, North Carolina, on May 28, 1967. Further back and out lines south EditoriAL And of sight in No. 75’s train, the situation was not so attractive; a sun kink had just sUBmissions PoLiCiEs derailed several cars at the south end Lines south makes every reasonable effort to check the accuracy of of the south siding on newly installed articles that appear in the magazine. We welcome corrections and additions welded rail. —Warren Calloway photo to published content. Opinions and conclusions expressed in articles are those of the author and not necessarily of the Lines south staff or of the ACL & SAL Back cover top: NS 1612, a Baldwin AS-416, and a 70-tonner Historical Society. are crossing the Neuse River with a southbound freight in We welcome submissions of articles and photographs for publication. Our 1959, and are about to arrive at New Bern. The railroad’s preferred formats are Word documents and “raw” tiff scans of photographs and illustrations. Please contact the editor for details and for other methods of line to New Bern left the NS main at submitting photos. If you do send any items of value to us, particularly original Marsden. — Michael Dunn photo photos or other historic items, please always use a securely packaged, insured method with delivery tracking; Lines south cannot assume any responsibility for Back cover bottom: ACL SD35 1009 loss or damage to materials sent to us. Please submit materials and inquiries leads a mixed group of C-C units to the editor: including U25C 3013, a C-628, and a Larry Goolsby second SD35 with an F unit thrown in Editor, Lines south for spice. The train is at Richmond’s 10503 Meredith Avenue Acca Yard on November 30. 1966. Kensington, MD 20895 —Warren Calloway collection [email protected] Contents 3 ACL and SAL Second-Generation Diesels by Warren Calloway road switcher as its freight diesel of choice. Arrival of Four-Axle Likewise, the ACL passenger locomotive Second-Generation Units As long-time rivals Atlantic Coast Line fleet was all-EMD, and Seaboard’s was The first true second-generation diesel and Seaboard Air Line entered the 1960s, nearly so. locomotives came to SAL and ACL with their motive power purchases had followed During the latter half of the 1950s, neither their purchases of the turbo-charged 2250 somewhat the same general policy.
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