Tuesday, April 16, 2019

RAILWAY #10


Posted by Chic Silber at 4/16/2019 10:23:00 AM

3 comments:

Chic Silber said...


ACL ran both an East Coast Champion

as well as a West Coast Champion that

started out of NY as 1 train set but

split up in Jacksonville to become 2

16 April, 2019 11:18
boppabill said...

My grand father took me to see this train on its first diesel run to Florida. Great purple beast! This was prior to the change over from air horns. Pop thought it was a cow in a near by pasture.

I took the FEC "Champion" to NYC from Florida as a child. Safety was not a concern.

16 April, 2019 16:57
Chic Silber said...


I rode the East Coast Champion many

times as a kid alone from the old

NY Penn Station to Hollywood Florida

to visit my Grandparents from age 8

until 11 or 12 when there were few

if any restrictions on such travel

That was in the early 50s

16 April, 2019 21:04

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