Family Lines System 5039 (EMD MP15DC) @ Dolton IL (1983)

            The Family Lines System was never actually an operating railroad, it was a marketing tactic which brought together the allying lines of the Louisville & Nashville, Clinchfield, Seaboard Coast Line, and a number of other smaller road (such as the Georgia Railroad, Atlanta & West Point Railroad, and Western Railway of Alabama otherwise referred to as the West Point Route). With this came a new livery (not unlike the later Seaboard scheme) applied to all with sub-lettering stenciled under locomotive cabs identifying the specific company. This marketing scheme was also short-lived, lasting only from 1972 until 1982 when these railroads merged together formally to create the Seaboard System (itself operating for only a few years). 

What is interesting is that No. 5039, an ex-L&N unit, which I have seen a couple times passing through Dolton, IL in the early 1980's had no sub-letter stenciling applied.

Taken in: United States / Illinois / Thornton Township / Dolton (show map)

Taken on: August 28, 1983

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Family Lines 5039

EMD MP15DC

Autos

Dolton IL

8-28-1983

Family Lines System

black & white

Kodak Plus-X

scanned negative « less

Sets appears in: • Seaboard System • Illinois Trains more » • Black and White « less

Groups appears in: • Trains in Black and White • Railfanning the Chicagoland Suburbs

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