While others remember the old NS or SR steam program as Summer Steam, living in Birmingham usually meant two excursions a year, at the beginning of the season (spring) and end of it (fall). Here we see 1218 on her excursion weekend running from Birmingham to Chattanooga. This would not only be the end of the season, but for 1218 the end of her retirement years pulling excursions. It was time for the required major overhaul. Into the shops she went as required, but the overhaul was never completed. A few years later NS had a new president who did not give a rip about the great steam program begun by Southern Railway, or the positive PR it created, and abruptly killed it.
While today's NS is more open to steam excursions at long last, it is doubtful we will ever see this amazing machine run again. Thanks 1218, it was awesome while it lasted!
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