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A popular railroad in the southeastern United States for many years, was the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.

This photo was taken at Dunn North Carolina, on the date of July 11th, 1965.
Leading this freight train, is an EMD model F 7 cab unit diesel from the 1950's era. The ACL in the early years of their dieselization, had painted many of their diesel locomotives in a unique silver and purple color scheme. This was a unique and very colorful livery, that was too expensive and difficult to maintain in the extreme hot sunshine conditions found in the States of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and many parts of America's southern region. The ACL had began to use a basic black and yellow color scheme by the early 1960's.

By the 1960's, the first generation diesel locomotives from the 1940's and 50's era, were still in service on many North American railroads, but were begining to show their age mechanically, and sometimes physically in the case of the locomotive on the head end of this freight train.

The ACL and several other southern and southeastern railroads would eventually merge begining in the late 1960's and in to the mid 1980's. The former ACL, is now today part of CSX Transportation Company.