Southern Railroad locomotive 1401 (photo)

The 1401 was assigned for most of its operating life (1926-1952) to the Charlotte Division for the Southern Railway, hence the name “Charlotte” painted in small letters on the side of the 1401’s cab. The Charlotte Division was part of the Southern’s Washington-Atlanta mainline, with extension of the mainline to Birmingham and New Orleans on trackage leased by Southern. The Charlotte Division included the line between Greenville, South Carolina and Salisbury/Spencer, North Carolina. The 1401 was one of eight Ps-4s used to haul President Franklin Roosevelt’s funeral train from Warm Springs, Georgia to Washington in mid-April 1945. The locomotive was retired from service in 1952.