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Sandpatch

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From October 1979 at Knoxville, TN, GE C30-7 7005 is only eight months old.

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crashton

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Great shot of a long gone railroad icon. I sure do miss seeing a caboose on the end of trains. Seeing a FRED go by on the end of a train makes me sad.
 
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March 1981 at Denville, NJ, a junction on the former Delaware, Lackawanna & Western. The train is on the Boonton line and is about to join the electrified mainline heading west. The Boonton line was a freight bypass. A lot has changed in 40 years and I'm not sure if the Boonton line remains as a through route. The 6695 is a former Erie Lackawanna SDP-45.

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Former SAL Alco C-420 1376 works at Knoxville, TN in April 1979. These aging units were flogged daily and yet muscled through. I recall seeing a C-420 throttled up shoving a heavy cut, wheels having lost adhesion and slowly spinning with smoke pouring off the wheel surfaces.

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April 1998 at the SAL's crossroads at Hamlet, NC. There was a major hump yard here until Precision Scheduled Railroading took root at CSX and it is now closed. In 2003 the enormous depot was moved across the tracks and spun 90 Deg. to place it in a more accessible spot. Hamlet is also stop for Amtrak's Silver Star.

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crashton said:
Great shot Sandpatch. What an enormous task to move that giant station building. Glad it survives. :encouragement:
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Thank you. It must have been interesting to watch and the scheduling must have been carefully set, as the move would have blocked movements of north/south trains like the one shown in the picture. I think the same construction company also moved the Cape Hatteras lighthouse on the North Carolina coast to move it back nearly 3000 FT away from the shoreline.
 
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A Union Switch & Signal PRR position light dwarf signal displays a stop indication at Hudson, OH. [Nikkormat FTn, Plus-X, July 1976] Ten years after this shot was taken, I met my wife and on our first trip into former PRR territory, she called these "Gumby" signals because their shape somewhat matched Gumby's head.
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Got trackside today to snag a shot of NS 238 at Columbia, SC. It's a daily stack train that runs from Greenville, SC to the Port of Charleston, SC. It's lead by GE AC44C6M 4003, one of Norfolk Southern's locomotives converted from DC to AC and given a special paint scheme.

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Took the car for a spin on this fine spring-like day and soon saw CSX Train F764, a puny local at the Camden, SC Amtrak station. Lighting wasn't the best, so I waited in vain for the train's return trip, but lost patience.

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Caught a light engine move on the former Southern Railway mainline at Fairforest, SC on Thursday, probably to pick up a train in Greenville.

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Trailing was another DC-to-AC locomotive in special paint.

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I stopped at the same location at sunset five days later and caught a northbound intermodal train. The light wasn't great, but I cranked off a few shots. Note that the two units are the same as in my shots from above! :eek:

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N&W 611 departs Attalla, AL for Chattanooga, TN. It's a beautiful 04/01/1989 morning and she's on her first fantrip of the season. [Kodachrome, Nikon N2020]

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