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Hank Stephens's Collection
 
5/3/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Wiregrass Central Railroad. Incorporated
Model:Rebuilt EMD GP9RBuilt As:SP 5818 (GP9)
Serial Number:25118Order No:5595
Frame Number:5595-19Built:4/1959
Notes:Later chop-nosed.
Other locos with this serial:  AF 3832(GP9) SP 3832(GP9R) WGCR 3832(GP9R)
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Start up power on the Wiregrass Central included a newly painted and very red ex IC GP40 and several ex SP and Chessie GP units.
Title:  Start up power on the Wiregrass Central included a newly painted and very red ex IC GP40 and several ex SP and Chessie GP units.
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Photo Date:  6/20/1989  Upload Date: 8/18/2010 2:26:16 PM
Location:  Enterprise, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  WGCR 3023(GP40) WGCR 3832(GP9R)
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Even I manage a classic shot once in every hundred or so exposures.  WGCR start up power has tied down for the day at the old block agency on the west side of town.  The old semaphores are still in place.
Title:  Even I manage a classic shot once in every hundred or so exposures. WGCR start up power has tied down for the day at the old block agency on the west side of town. The old semaphores are still in place.
Description:  The units are sitting about a mile east of the end of the line.
Photo Date:  6/20/1989  Upload Date: 8/18/2010 2:26:05 PM
Location:  Enterprise, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  WGCR 3832(GP9R) WGCR 3023(GP40)
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Roster shot of the ex SP Geep soon after start up.
Title:  Roster shot of the ex SP Geep soon after start up.
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Photo Date:  6/20/1989  Upload Date: 8/18/2010 2:26:05 PM
Location:  Enterprise, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  WGCR 3832(GP9R)
Views:  249   Comments: 0
WGCR 3832 at Albany GA in 2000.  This ex SP GP9E was the last unit in to orginial red scheme and had a chop nose by this time. --Felix Brunot picture
Title:  WGCR 3832 at Albany GA in 2000. This ex SP GP9E was the last unit in to orginial red scheme and had a chop nose by this time. --Felix Brunot picture
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Photo Date:  1/1/1996  Upload Date: 1/4/2009 2:04:19 AM
Location:  Albany, GA
Author:  Felix Brunot
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Locomotives:  WGCR 3832(GP9R)
Views:  315   Comments: 0
The WGCR kept a stable roster of these three units during several lean years due to drought.  The contrast of paint mixes shows the "pink lady" on the end and one of the original units now nore oxide than red.
Title:  The WGCR kept a stable roster of these three units during several lean years due to drought. The contrast of paint mixes shows the "pink lady" on the end and one of the original units now nore oxide than red.
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Photo Date:  6/20/1996  Upload Date: 8/18/2010 2:26:06 PM
Location:  Enterprise, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  WGCR 3832(GP9R) WGCR 8056(GP10) WGCR 1026(GP7)
Views:  605   Comments: 1
Daleville was the location of the back gate into Ft Rucker and a long pass track turned storage track.  Wiregrass Central began storing boxcars, grain hoppers and out of service locomotives here in the late 1990s and early 2000s.  By 2006 the railroad was
Title:  Daleville was the location of the back gate into Ft Rucker and a long pass track turned storage track. Wiregrass Central began storing boxcars, grain hoppers and out of service locomotives here in the late 1990s and early 2000s. By 2006 the railroad was
Description:  The former South Alabama RR GP18 behind the WGCR unit was in for disposition after G&O Railways bought the Troy branchline and created the Conecuh Valley RR
Photo Date:  6/20/2001  Upload Date: 8/18/2010 2:26:00 PM
Location:  Daleville, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  SA 9424(GP18) WGCR 3832(GP9R)
Views:  918   Comments: 0


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