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Seaboard Air Line: 1910
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 12/28/2010 - 5:16pm.
Savannah, Georgia, circa 1910. "Seaboard Air Line Railway docks." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Granddad the RR Cop
Submitted by Tom Moye on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 11:26pm.
My grandfather worked for the Seaboard Air Line. He was a railroad policeman and was killed in a depot robbery at Esom Hill, Georgia, in 1931.
Along with his picture, there is a picture of his Seaboard Air Line badge.
No Hunting?
Submitted by nowhine on Wed, 12/29/2010 - 12:48am.
If there is no hunting on the island, what are the coon dogs for? Or,again, they may be sea dogs.
No Doubt
Submitted by JJB on Tue, 12/28/2010 - 10:20pm.
That this is a good Sailor view. Great prop wash from the ship, a narrow channel. What else could a great seaman want.
Just beautiful!
Seaboard Line
Submitted by Phaedrus on Tue, 12/28/2010 - 8:41pm.
Seaboard Air Line operated trains all over the Southeast including a run to Miami. After mergers and remergers, the tracks are still there.
"Air Line" was a common metaphor for the shortest distance between two points -- a more direct route than the competition.
The marshy dead.
Submitted by Sean Ryan on Tue, 12/28/2010 - 7:56pm.
That looks like a view from the rear of City Hall towards Hutchinson Island and S.C. beyond. Now home to the Convention Center and Westin Golf resort (also once a garbage dump & cemetery).
The big boat
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 12/28/2010 - 6:27pm.
is the U.S.S. City of Montgomery, launched in 1910 at Newport News.
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