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Hank Stephens's Collection
 
4/17/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Wiregrass Central Railroad. Incorporated
Model:EMD GP40Built As:IC 3023 (GP40)
Serial Number:31457Order No:5697
Frame Number:5697-17Built:1/1966
Notes:Former IC unit
Other locos with this serial:  OHCR 3253(GP40) CRLX 253(GP40) IC 3023(GP40) WGCR 3023(GP40) CR 253(GP40)
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The start up of the AGLF in Albany featured a handfull of red painted units from the Wiregrass Central operation in Alabama and new secondhand GP10 units from IC still waiting on G&O decals.  This would mark a change in paint scheme from red to black and
Title:  The start up of the AGLF in Albany featured a handfull of red painted units from the Wiregrass Central operation in Alabama and new secondhand GP10 units from IC still waiting on G&O decals. This would mark a change in paint scheme from red to black and
Description:  Photos by Glenn Marsh and part of his collection
Photo Date:  6/20/1989  Upload Date: 12/1/2010 6:04:46 PM
Location:  Albany, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  WGCR 1026(GP7) WGCR 3023(GP40) AGLF 8104(GP10)
Views:  1083   Comments: 2
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)
Views:  829   Comments: 0
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)
Views:  796   Comments: 0
Wiregrass Central GP40 #3023 is on hand for the start up of the third major Claussen shortline, the Atlantic and Gulf.  G&O Railways shipped several WGCR units over from Enterprise, AL to start the former CSX branch from Thomasville, GA to Albany, GA.
Title:  Wiregrass Central GP40 #3023 is on hand for the start up of the third major Claussen shortline, the Atlantic and Gulf. G&O Railways shipped several WGCR units over from Enterprise, AL to start the former CSX branch from Thomasville, GA to Albany, GA.
Description:  Photos by Glenn Marsh and part of his collection
Photo Date:  6/20/1989  Upload Date: 12/1/2010 6:04:47 PM
Location:  Albany, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  WGCR 3023(GP40)
Views:  530   Comments: 0


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