Piggyback trains at Stevenson, AL in July 1977

 

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In July 1977 I was on the last day of a trip up to Louisville, KY to fix a very sick Imsai computer. I spent the night sleeping in the car at Stevenson, AL. The next morning Extra 2658 East rumbles by the station with a piggyback train a couple hours after sun up. The Southern Railway and L&N Railroad tracks join just east of the station. Clouds are building to the west.

It didn't stay clear very long. I caught this L&N piggyback train about an hour later. By using Google Maps and Street View, I think this was taken from the Tennessee Avenue bridge. I tried to chase this piggyback train, but once it cleared the junction switch, it left me in the dust. Disk 132

John Barriger picture. The Southern Railway Memphis to Charleston line joins the NC&StL (later L&N) here and uses trackage rights to Wauhatchie, TN. The tracks curving off to the right on the north side of the station go to Nashville, TN. The Southern Railway joins at the switch in the foreground and the track to Memphis runs on the south side of the station.