I scanned some old negatives recently and found photos of the following:

Steam locomotive and coach in Scott, Arkansas 1970s *** Red Katy units passing New Ulm, Texas 1974 *** St Joe, Arkansas M&NA depot 1974 *** Houston, Texas Union Station train platform with streamliner 1959 *** Snowy night with Amtrak at Union Station Little Rock, Arkansas 1982 *** Southern Crescent at Birmingham, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia 1975 *** Last Amtrak through Brenham, Texas October 1981 *** Southern Railroad freight Atlanta, Georgia 1975 *** SCL in Tifton, Georgia 1974. (All photos copyright Ken Ziegenbein)




2-6-0 No. 201 (Moscow, Camden & St. Augustine Ry No. 201, http://steamlocomotive.info/vlocomotive.cfm?Display=31) with Georgia Northern coach in Scott, Arkansas in the 1970s. I can't read the tender, but have included a closeup below. I don't remember the specifics, but I assume it was being restored here for later use on the Scott & Bearskin Lake tourist line in Scott. This operation was moved to Eureka Springs, Arkansas in the 1980s, but here too I don't remember all the specifics.


Closeup of first shot.


On the Scott & Bearskin Lake in Scott, Arkansas in the 1970s. The locomotive W.T. Carter & Brother (http://steamlocomotive.info/vlocomotive.cfm?Display=39)


Katy 171 and 203 moving toward Sealy and Houston in 1974, taken at New Ulm, Texas.


St. Joe, Arkansas Missouri & North Arkansas depot in 1974.


Houston, Texas Union Station platform with a streamliner in 1959.


Snow on the ground at Union Station in Little Rock, Arkansas, January 1982.


Northbound Texas Eagle (or Inter-American?) in the fresh snow at Little Rock, Arkansas's Union Station in January 1982.


Southern Crescent in Atlanta, Georgia in 1975.


Southern Crescent, Atlanta, Georgia 1975.


Southern Railroad freight passing Atlanta, Georgia's train station in 1975.


Southern Crescent in Birmingham, Alabama in Octoberr 1975, Atlanta-bound. I had just gotten off after riding cross-country from Little Rock to Chicago on the Inter-American, Chicago to Los Anteles on the Southwest Chief, Los Angeles to New Orleans on the Sunset Limited, and finally New Orleans to Birmingham on the Southern Crescent. I then flew back to Little Rock.


Last Amtrak train through Brenham, Texas, the Houston-bound section of the Inter-American in October 1981, just after dark (the last Lone Star had stopped here in 1979, but was replaced by a Houston section of the Inter-American until this final run in 1981. The Inter-American split in Temple. This ended a hundred years of passenger train service to this city. The day before, the last northbound went through with school kids riding to Temple. Most had thought that the northbound was the final train, but this southbound was really the last train. It had started in Chicao the day before. I was listening to music from the movie "My Brilliant Career" as this last train pulled out. Many times in the late 1950s my grandfather and I would catch the Santa Fe's train at this station and ride to Houston, always around 5 in the morning. From Houston, we'd catch the Missouri Pacific's Valley Eagle to Harlingen, Texas.


Tifton, Georgia showing a Seaboard Coast Line train being readied to go east toward Waycross, Georgia in 1974. This line has been taken up.


SCL 1606, Tifton, Georgia 1974.


Heading east toward Waycross, just outside of Tifton, Georgia.


SCL caboose No. 01019.