Southern Steam Locomotive Draws Crowds (editor's title)

Crowd gathers at Salisburg, North Carolina, to see a steam locomotive arrive at night

Even late in the evening, crowds turned out to see excursion locomotive 4501, shown here at Salisbury, North Carolina. Southern's successor, Norfolk Southern, continued the program until 1994 and inaugurated its 21st Century Steam program in 2011. Many other people than those in Salisbuy saw the locomotive on this inaugural trip. They included Trains Editor Jim Wrinn (on his father’s shoulders at Asheville) and Don Phillips, a Trains columnist, then a young adult.

Alternate Title	Locomotives 4501 and 630: 16
Source	John Gruber Collection
Coverage	Spatial, Salisbury, North Carolina; Temporal, August 25, 1966
Rights	John Gruber
Date Created	1966-08-25
Creator	Gruber, John E.
Resource Type	Image (DCMI Type Vocabulary)
Format	Black and white print
Classification	Preservation (LCSH)
Extent	8 in. by 10 in.
Depicted Railroad	Southern Railway
Location	Salisbury, North Carolina
Equipment, Locomotive	No. 4501, Mikado
Builder, locomotive	Baldwin Locomotive Works, October 1911
Creator Description	John Gruber is a founder of the Center for Railroad Photography & Art and editor of its journal, Railroad Heritage. He has been a free-lance railroad photographer since 1960. He received awards from the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society in 1994 for lifetime achievement in photography and in 2010 for an article. He is author of Classic Steam: Timeless Photographs of North America Steam Railroading (2009) and co-author of four books. He photographed both the 1966 and 2011 events.
Comments	Gruber provided most of the photographs for David P. Morgan's "Locomotive 4501," Kalmbach Publishing Company, 1968.
Collection	John Gruber Collection
Institution	Private Collection

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