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Joe, great memories!  Have you ever thought about doing an article?  The ACL/SAL Historical Society puts out a quarterly magazine LINES SOUTH, and could probably use a couple.

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The ACL line coming into Portsmouth VA was a bit over a stones throw behind my house, but I was so scared of those huge things back then I can't recall if I saw any purple engines or not.  There was a small trestle between my house and the little league baseball fields that I would walk on sometimes but it was scary to look down between the ties and see nothing but water.  Within eyesight of my house there was an ACL swing bridge over the southern branch of the Elizabeth River, back in 1905 an excursion train plunged into the river due to the bridge being open, killing between 15-27 people depending on the reports.

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