Courtesy of SRHA TIES Magazine.
The Carolina Special
After 53 years of running from Charleston to Asheville and beyond to the mid-west, the passenger train, "Carolina Special" made its final run up the Saluda Grade 50 years ago on December 5, 1968.
Within the extensive collection of train memorabilia, the Saluda Depot Museum has on loan from Raymond "Bo" Brown from Spartanburg, SC will return to the Depot after presenting, How "The Southern" Served the South at extensive examples of dining service including, china patterns, silver hollowware, silver flatware, linens, menus, all things used in the dining car during their 84 years of Southern Railway passenger car service.
Francis B Fishburne commissioned the painting of the "Carolina Special" by the famous American artist Howard Fogg. Howard Fogg was known to "single-handedly paint the trains of America into railroad history. His father, also named Francis. B. Fishburne, was a conductor on the Columbia to Asheville run for 40 years. He passed away in 1939.