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Updated: March 3, 2010 12:00 a.m.

Saying goodbye to the Southern Crescent

Aboard the Southern Crescent-I don't know exactly where we were. Between Spartanburg and Charlotte perhaps. Midnight approached. Four hours earlier, the Southern Crescent had pulled out of Atlanta's Peachtree Station bound for Washington with three green-and-gold engines, 13 cars and a pack of riders come to attend the funeral-on-wheels of America's last privately owned overnight luxury passenger train. "I just wanted to say goodbye in person," said a man who had boarded in Gainesville for ...

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