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Here we have the CSX-6000, one of Robert's GE commissions. This is brand new technology. The location is a generic between Nashville, Tennessee and Northern Alabama. In this view there are two back-to-back AC-6000's pulling a Mitsui double-stack train which is a dedicated train. This particular train is known as #120 on the CSX Railroad. It represents one of the hottest trains the CSX has today, even despite the merger with Conrail. This train originates in Atlanta, Georgia and terminates in Los Angeles, California and runs by way of Chicago. It originates in Atlanta at a brand new piggyback facility. It picks-up additional cars in Chicago, then hightails it to the west coast by way of the CSX Railroad and exchanging with the Southern-Pacific Railroad in New Orleans.

This is a lineup of passenger trains that you would see in Jacksonville, Florida in the early to mid 40's. Starting from the left you have a Seaboard Air Lines Streamlined Pacific Locomotive. There is an interesting story behind this locomotive. When Seaboard Air Lines received its new Passenger Diesels painted in the citrus paint scheme, the diesels were utilized between Washington, DC and Miami Florida. The mayors of St. Petersburg and Clearwater, Florida were upset that they didn't get the opportunity to get those brand new passenger streamlined diesel locomotives into their respective cities. Seaboard Air Lines Management had the shops in West Jacksonville streamline two of the Pacific's Locomotives with Streamline shrouding on them and paint them in the citrus colors to give them the appearance of the new diesel locomotives. To see this locomotive sitting in Jacksonville terminal is a very rare scene, so Robert took a bit of artistic license to put it in a somewhat realistic setting, because it was only in Jacksonville for one time unless they had to return to the Jacksonville shops for service. The next three locomotives are Atlantic Coast Line Locomotives. A R1 Northern 4-8-4 Passenger Locomotive and two T5A and T5B Pacific Locomotives used for local passenger service out of Jacksonville. The very next locomotive is a Florida East Coast Mountain Passenger Locomotive used for high speed passenger service. After that is a venerable Southern Railway PS-4 that came in probably off of the Ponce De Leon passenger train. Then in the background you see the oil fired 0-4-0 terminal switcher and in the far background you see an Illinois Central diesel locomotive which was the very first Diesel Locomotive to operate on the "City of Miami". Also significant about this print is that it is dedicated to the soldiers of World War II, you see the sailor in uniform and the military police in uniform. If you look next to the Atlantic Coast Line R1 Northern you will see the conductor waiving, well that happens to be Robert's Grandfather who operated out of the Jacksonville terminal.

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