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On June 7, 1970, beginning on Seaboard Coast Line railroad, a mile-long Tropicana Juice Train began carrying one million gallons of juice with one weekly round-trip from Bradenton, Florida to Kearny, New Jersey, in the New York City area. The trip spanned 1,250 miles (2,010 km) one way, and the 60 car train was the equivalent of 250 trucks.
The GE U36B is a four-axle 3,600 hp (2.7 MW) B-B diesel-electric locomotive produced by General Electric from 1969 to 1974. It was primarily used by the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad and its successors, although thirteen provided the power for the original Auto Train. The U36B was the last GE high-horsepower universal series locomotive.
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad: 36 8040–8066, 8087–8094, 8130 Delivered in Family Lines Paint, to Seaboard System, now in service with CSX Transportation. St. Louis–San Francisco Railway: 8 950–957 Merged with Burlington Northern in 1980, renumbered BN 6840-6847 - same numbers in BNSF. Now in service with the BNSF Railway. Soo Line ...
155 locomotives were rebuilt by the Seaboard Coast Line. The vast majority of them came from Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line and their subsidiaries (Atlanta and West Point Railroad, Charleston and Western Carolina Railway, Georgia Railroad, Western Railway of Alabama, Winston-Salem Southbound Railway); eight units came from Clinchfield Railroad (with one of them ex Nashville ...
The Seaboard System Railroad, Inc. (reporting mark SBD) was a US Class I railroad that operated from 1982 to 1986.. Since the late 1960s, Seaboard Coast Line Industries had operated the Seaboard Coast Line and its sister railroads—notably the Louisville & Nashville and Clinchfield—as the "Family Lines System".
It was the only North American locomotive powered by the 8-cylinder 7FDL engine. [2] The U18B was not a popular seller with GE only making about 150 of them, and they were mostly purchased by Maine Central and Seaboard Coast Line. [1] Railroads lost interest in specialized road units entering the 1970s. [1]
Burlington Northern Railroad: 242 5000-5141, 5500-5599 BN 5500 was the first locomotive with this model, and was built in September 1976. Remaining units went to BNSF after the BN-ATSF merger in 1996. All sold in the late 1990s to early 2000s. Many have found their way to the ALL (America Latina Logistica) Railroad in Brazil. Conrail: 60 6550-6609
To Family Lines System then to Seaboard System and now at CSX Transportation: Erie Lackawanna Railway: 13 3669-3681. To Conrail and then to Norfolk Southern and CSX Transportation, those to CSX downgraded to SD40-2 standards. Seaboard Coast Line Railroad: 15 2045-2059. To Family Lines System then to Seaboard System and now at CSX Transportation ...