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A Dozen Views from the Crescent.

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Exploring the train, gazing out at the rolling panorama and nipping off for moments during station stops allows for snapshots of our journey.

Below are just a few of many views exposed on the way to New Orleans on Amtrak’s Crescent.

Gainesville, Georgia.

Gainesville, Georgia.
Breakfast in the diner.
Georgia-Alabama border.

Station stop at Anniston, Alabama.

Near Anniston, Alabama.

Rolling south on the old Southern Railway toward Birmingham.

Frisco 2-8-2 displayed near Birmingham, Alabama.

Baldwin switcher near Birmingham.

Birmingham, Alabama.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Meridian, Mississippi.

Meridian, Mississippi.

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One comment on “A Dozen Views from the Crescent.”

  1. Anonymous on said:

    By coincidence, I passed through Anniston, Birmingham and Tuscaloosa on 26 December 1978 on the Southern Crescent, in its final weeks of operation by the Southern Railway. Amtrak took over from 1 February 1979. I recall it as still a pretty good quality service, even it in that last period of private ownership.

    Hard to believe that 40 years have passed since that memorable trip.

    Michael Walsh

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