CSX 5107 is the Spirit of W. Thomas Rice who Rice Yard in Waycross is named after.
CSX 2702 is named after Franklin M. Garr and is the Spirit of Atlanta.
kevin
Colonel Philip Hooper was an army officer who became a Vice President at Louisville and Nashville. He died in 2003.
Other special engines (not named after people though) include
1 - Spirit Of West Virginia 295 - Spirit of Clinchfield 356 - Spirit of Brunswick 391 - Spirit of Dante 454 - Spirit of Magnolia 500 - Spirit of Grafton 601 - Spirit of Waycross 602 - Spirit of Maryland 699, 5000, and 5001 are GE AC6000CW decorated with a "Diversity in Motion" logo on the side 700 - Spirit of Cumberland 789 - Spirit of Nashville 800 - Spirit of Benning 2304 has "Live Injury Free Everyday" Message 4685 - Spirit of Mulberry 4688 - Spirit of Tampa 4699 - Spirit of Miami 5571 has "Live Injury Free Everyday" Message
RJ
"Something hidden, Go and find it. Go and look behind the ranges, Something lost behind the ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go." The Explorers - Rudyard Kipling
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CSX 5555 is the spirit of Cartersville and 8206 is belived to be a the Spirit of Bush or something related to George W. Bush.
CSX 700 is also dubbed ''The Unlucky Engine''
oskar wrote: CSX 700 is also dubbed ''The Unlucky Engine'' kevin
Why?
First on one of its first trips down to Georgia in 1998 it was on a coal train. Nearing a town called Martinez the conductor of the train was hit with a rock thrown from somewhere near the engine. My Grandfather and I was the first one on the scene asking if they needed help. A dectective for CSX later told us that he was allright.
700 didn't get wrecked untill 2001 when the engineer took the wrong signal and ended up going into the back of another train belived to be a intermodal. A total of 2 people died and 1 is paralized one of the deaths is a drowning due to a crew member breaking his neck and drowned.
Total of 2 deaths and 2 injurys that I know of on that engine.
Pics of wreck
http://www.trainweb.org/csxphotos/photos/wrecks/0256wrk.jpg
http://www.trainweb.org/csxphotos/photos/wrecks/0700wrk.jpg
Was the L&N especially fond of naming things after their executives?
I asked because I lived for two years in Norton (Southwestern), Virginia; I was told the town had been named after a late-nineteenth century VP at said rwy.
Inquiring minds, etc.,
al-in-chgo
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