• Preorder HO Scale here: https://www.scaletrains.com/ho-scale/ho-scale-freight-cars/operator-ho-scale-pullman-standard-silverside-coal-gondola.html • Preorder N Scale here: https://www.scaletrains.com/n-scale/n-scale-freight-cars/operator-n-scale-pullman-standard-silverside-coal-gondola.html Our own Drayton Blackgrove recently sat down with noted railroad historian – and friend of ScaleTrains – Ed Painter, to talk about one of the most iconic unit train cars of the southeast: the Pullman-Standa

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Heading up the famous Saluda Grade. These locomotives are "tripling" their train to make it up the 4.24% grade. Sometime in the 1970s. EDIT: After some helpful posts pinning down some dates, I suspect this must have been right around merger time, 1982/83. From "Southern Memoires" by Main Line Motion Pictures. Get it here: http://rfd.video/SouthernMemories | Railfan Depot

Here's part 2 of a Southern Railway (NS) freight making a trip over the Saluda grade. The first part of the train has been stashed near the summit at Saluda, North Carolina, and the power now returns to the rest of the train where it will grab more cars and haul them up a nearly 5% grade. Part 3, same time next week! From the Main Line Motion Pictures show "Southern Railway Memories" https://rfd.video/SouthernMemories | Railfan Depot

With two sections of their train resting at the top of the Saluda grade in southwest North Carolina, a trio of diesels makes one final run at the nearly 5% hill with the last section. From the Main Line Motion Pictures show "Southern Memories" https://rfd.video/SouthernMemories | Railfan Depot

Norfolk Western 611 Saluda Grade 1994