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Various shots of Southern Steam Program around Birmingham, AL and Heart of Dixie equipment stored there.
Title:  Various shots of Southern Steam Program around Birmingham, AL and Heart of Dixie equipment stored there.
Description:  Photos by Glenn Marsh and part of his colcection
Photo Date:  4/4/1979  Upload Date: 11/17/2010 4:50:23 PM
Location:  Bessemer, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  SOU 2839(4-6-4)
Views:  967   Comments: 1
Various shots of Southern Steam Program around Birmingham, AL and Heart of Dixie equipment stored there.
Title:  Various shots of Southern Steam Program around Birmingham, AL and Heart of Dixie equipment stored there.
Description:  Photos by Glenn Marsh and part of his collection
Photo Date:  4/4/1979  Upload Date: 11/17/2010 4:50:18 PM
Location:  Bessemer, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  SOU 2839(4-6-4)
Views:  993   Comments: 1
SOU transfer cab moves in the middle of a local near Irondale, AL
Title:  SOU transfer cab moves in the middle of a local near Irondale, AL
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Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 8/2/2010 10:49:02 AM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  573   Comments: 1
A stranger from a strange land---Carolina and Northwestern RR lettered cab works with a GP30 in the yard at Opelika in the 1970s
Title:  A stranger from a strange land---Carolina and Northwestern RR lettered cab works with a GP30 in the yard at Opelika in the 1970s
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 10/11/2010 8:00:46 AM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  1293   Comments: 3
Leased to LW, this southern caboose works well with the also leased SW-1
Title:  Leased to LW, this southern caboose works well with the also leased SW-1
Description:  By the time the pictures were taken in this album somewhere in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the LW still represented an operational railroad with leased Southern Railway SW power and car storage. The railroad now exists as a short lead off the ex CofGA main and lends its reporting marks to a large railcar leasing entity more than as an operating railroad
Photo Date:  3/7/1980  Upload Date: 3/7/2011 11:15:29 PM
Location:  Louisville, GA
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  RollingStock
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Retired caboose being delivered to LaFayette, AL for eventual display by the depot there, which was now a county museum.
Title:  Retired caboose being delivered to LaFayette, AL for eventual display by the depot there, which was now a county museum.
Description:  In later years, the NS Opelika Swticher was cut off and replaced by a turn running out of Opelika which made the trip to Lafayette and returned a couple times per week. These later era trains were long and usually warranted what ever Columbus Yard in Columbus, GA could muster. Typical power was a pair of GPs or in this case, a single B32-8.
Photo Date:  1/1/1995  Upload Date: 6/29/2010 2:43:00 PM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  583   Comments: 1
Caboose marks THE END of service as the last train heads South to Lafa~ette, AL
Title:  Caboose marks THE END of service as the last train heads South to Lafa~ette, AL
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Photo Date:  5/15/2008  Upload Date: 5/15/2008 10:43:41 PM
Location:  Stroud, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  Action
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Views:  726   Comments: 0
PICTURE FOURTEEN--CAB X320 holds the rear markers as it ducks under US HWY 431 at Lafayette, AL
Title:  PICTURE FOURTEEN--CAB X320 holds the rear markers as it ducks under US HWY 431 at Lafayette, AL
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/3/1989  Upload Date: 7/7/2010 11:20:03 PM
Location:  Lafayette, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  516   Comments: 0
PICTURE EIGHTEEN--Depot showing age and disrepair as it watches the turn caboose pass by
Title:  PICTURE EIGHTEEN--Depot showing age and disrepair as it watches the turn caboose pass by
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/3/1989  Upload Date: 7/7/2010 11:15:38 PM
Location:  Lafayette, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  434   Comments: 1
PICTURE TWENTY SEVEN--Caboose now carries markers for a loaded southbound turn
Title:  PICTURE TWENTY SEVEN--Caboose now carries markers for a loaded southbound turn
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Photo Date:  3/3/1989  Upload Date: 7/7/2010 11:15:40 PM
Location:  Lafayette, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  447   Comments: 1
PICTURE THREE--With the train now cleared by the AWP-WofA dispatcher, the train heads north on CSX to Roanoke Jct.
Title:  PICTURE THREE--With the train now cleared by the AWP-WofA dispatcher, the train heads north on CSX to Roanoke Jct.
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/3/1989  Upload Date: 7/7/2010 11:21:13 PM
Location:  Lafayette, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  RollingStock
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SOU X320 tails up the Lafayette turn as it heads north on CSX trackage right to Roanoke Jct.
Title:  SOU X320 tails up the Lafayette turn as it heads north on CSX trackage right to Roanoke Jct.
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1995  Upload Date: 7/20/2010 9:55:14 AM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  535   Comments: 1
Roster shot of cab X320 on Lafayette Turn
Title:  Roster shot of cab X320 on Lafayette Turn
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1995  Upload Date: 7/8/2010 1:35:09 AM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  386   Comments: 1
SOU X320 ends a very short Lafayette Turn in Lafayette near the woodyard spur.
Title:  SOU X320 ends a very short Lafayette Turn in Lafayette near the woodyard spur.
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1995  Upload Date: 7/20/2010 9:56:37 AM
Location:  Lafayette, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  316   Comments: 1
Sopthern Railway in the Deep South in the 1970s
Title:  Sopthern Railway in the Deep South in the 1970s
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 7/10/2010 12:58:56 AM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  295   Comments: 0
Agent hoops up order on a ex CofGA P-line freight at the Opelika Diamond
Title:  Agent hoops up order on a ex CofGA P-line freight at the Opelika Diamond
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 8/2/2010 10:56:21 AM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  657   Comments: 1
SOU bay caboose rolls the end of a CofGA P Line train over old US HWY 280 in the 70s
Title:  SOU bay caboose rolls the end of a CofGA P Line train over old US HWY 280 in the 70s
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 8/2/2010 10:49:05 AM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  453   Comments: 1
Southern bay cab ends up an Alabama originated PRIDE coal train in the 1970s-80s era
Title:  Southern bay cab ends up an Alabama originated PRIDE coal train in the 1970s-80s era
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 8/2/2010 10:49:01 AM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  433   Comments: 1
SOU caboose tails up a rail train near Opelika
Title:  SOU caboose tails up a rail train near Opelika
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 8/2/2010 10:49:02 AM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  426   Comments: 1
SOU 34415 taken in the early 1990s used in Kaolin service. The car was taken on a NS train headed to the Mead paper mill in Cottonton, AL
Title:  SOU 34415 taken in the early 1990s used in Kaolin service. The car was taken on a NS train headed to the Mead paper mill in Cottonton, AL
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/20/2007  Upload Date: 12/22/2008 9:12:48 AM
Location:  Nuckols, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  582   Comments: 0
Older Magor Southern woodchip car with shaker plates along the top. Wet or frozen woodchips could be a problem and Southern worked to prevent stress fatigue on its cars caused by improper shake-out vibrators.
Title:  Older Magor Southern woodchip car with shaker plates along the top. Wet or frozen woodchips could be a problem and Southern worked to prevent stress fatigue on its cars caused by improper shake-out vibrators.
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/2004  Upload Date: 6/27/2010 11:12:27 PM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  436   Comments: 0
Another weary warrior in the NS legion of chip cars waits at Opelika for the PBSR train
Title:  Another weary warrior in the NS legion of chip cars waits at Opelika for the PBSR train
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/2004  Upload Date: 6/27/2010 11:12:25 PM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  354   Comments: 0
SOU 133583 is sans its billboard style logo due to years of fading and hauling woodchips. This unit is part of a cut of cars the PBSR had to run across the NS-CSX diamond to retrieve. They are now being shoved to the east side three track transfer yard
Title:  SOU 133583 is sans its billboard style logo due to years of fading and hauling woodchips. This unit is part of a cut of cars the PBSR had to run across the NS-CSX diamond to retrieve. They are now being shoved to the east side three track transfer yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/2004  Upload Date: 6/28/2010 12:13:01 AM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  368   Comments: 0
Southern Railway loved brown cars-- this scheme was the epitome of Southern Railway in the 70s and 80s.
Title:  Southern Railway loved brown cars-- this scheme was the epitome of Southern Railway in the 70s and 80s.
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/2004  Upload Date: 6/27/2010 11:12:23 PM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  360   Comments: 0
NS ex CofGA Greenville Local works the G-P mill at Durand and moves north the work Mead at Greenville, GA where the train would turn back south to Columbus, GA.
Title:  NS ex CofGA Greenville Local works the G-P mill at Durand and moves north the work Mead at Greenville, GA where the train would turn back south to Columbus, GA.
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/6/2003  Upload Date: 6/27/2010 10:22:57 PM
Location:  Durand, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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NS 141947 makes up a cut of loaded pulpwood cars on their way to the Georgia Pacific mill in Saffold, GA on the CIRR. The loads came from Opelika, off the PBSR
Title:  NS 141947 makes up a cut of loaded pulpwood cars on their way to the Georgia Pacific mill in Saffold, GA on the CIRR. The loads came from Opelika, off the PBSR
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/2004  Upload Date: 6/27/2010 11:12:26 PM
Location:  Columbus, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  881   Comments: 1
SOU 142457 on NS local A46 in Opelika in early 1990s
Title:  SOU 142457 on NS local A46 in Opelika in early 1990s
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/20/2008  Upload Date: 6/23/2009 2:25:41 PM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  818   Comments: 0
NS painted Southern era Radio Control Car on a grain train. The train ran with three units up front and one in midtrain to help with braking and coupler forces from the very heavy train
Title:  NS painted Southern era Radio Control Car on a grain train. The train ran with three units up front and one in midtrain to help with braking and coupler forces from the very heavy train
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/4/1998  Upload Date: 6/28/2010 12:44:16 PM
Location:  Commerce, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  838   Comments: 1
Picture two of two--Radio Control Car SOU 905942 leads a SD45 and SD40 on a PRIDE coal train through Birmingham in the early 1980s
Title:  Picture two of two--Radio Control Car SOU 905942 leads a SD45 and SD40 on a PRIDE coal train through Birmingham in the early 1980s
Description:  Pictures by Glenn Marsh and from his collection
Photo Date:  1/1/1981  Upload Date: 12/1/2010 12:59:43 AM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Glenn Marsh
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  763   Comments: 2

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