SAL piggyback hotshot

SAL piggyback hotshot

By Angela Cotey | August 28, 2023

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


Three GP30s make 60 mph with TT-23, a fast freight composed of 56 piggyback flatcars, at Manson, N.C., in September 1965. Though a normal service, TT-23 was not in the timetable and so ran as an extra, hence the white flags on GP30 517.
Curt Tillotson Jr. photo

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