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[QUOTE]Originally posted by notelvis: [QB] Hi Tarheelman, (and apologies to Henry for hijacking your thread with tales of another #5) Thanks for posting your own Southern passenger memories. Don't you love the restoration work on the stations in High Point and Greensboro? Hamlet is pretty incredible too though that was not originally a Southern depot. I absolutely was thrilled by the way the FP7's looked in their CLEAN black and white attire. The only thing better was catching a glimpse of the lovely green and gold southbound 'Crescent' when the northbound 'Piedmont' would meet it in Northern Virginia. After the 'Piedmont' was discontinued south of Charlotte and trains #3 & #4 went away, my father would still drive my mother and I to Salisbury to catch #6 to Washington. With the new schedule the 'Piedmont' would actually arrive at Union Station just minutes before the 'Crescent' departed......gave me a few more minutes to admire those green and gold E8's. In retrospect now, the thing which I liked most about Southern's passenger services in the 1970's though is that I, just barely a teen-ager at the time, had the opportunity to experience pre-Amtrak passenger railroading. Something that I could not have done had I been growing up in most other areas of the country at that time. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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