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Old Engine Retires At 77

By J.F. Whitt, D.D.S., P.A.

1018 West Dixie Avenue, Leesburg, Florida 32748

Friday evening about 10:00, June 22, 1989, we finally arrived home with the old 20 HP Fairbanks-Morse type N, hit and miss engine that was used to open the CSX Railroad bridge over the Altamaha River at Doctors Town Road, Jesup, Georgia. This culminated three years of effort on my part.

It all started while talking with a Mr. Jeffords with the then Seaboard Coastline R.R., now CSX, in Waycross, Georgia. This was in the summer of 1986. I had called him about having my name placed on their bid-list so I could bid on one of their Fairmont R.R. motor cars. He just happened to mention that he bet I would be interested in an old engine they had over at Jesup, Georgia that opened a R.R. bridge over the Altamaha River.

During hunting season, my wife and I go though Jesup almost every weekend, so on my...

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