Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Would you identify the conveyance here as an airliner? Since it was an engine in the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, in a way, it was. The company's motto, 'Through the Heart of the South,' also makes it a marker of Southern culture. L.D.M.'s grave also illustrates a complementary headstone and footstone. Chesapeake Memorial Gardens. [2012]
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This engine was the "Baldwin VO-1000, a diesel-electric locomotive (switcher) built by Baldwin Locomotive Works between January, 1939 and December, 1946. Seaboard had ordered 7 units numbered 1400–1402, 1413–1416." "This engine was a small railroad locomotive intended not for moving trains over long distances but rather for assembling trains ready for a road locomotive to take over or for disassembling a train that has been brought in, and generally moving railroad cars around."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_VO-1000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switcher
Vaison, train lover.