RailPictures.Net Photo: Sou 2602 Southern Railway EMD GP30 at Opelika, Alabama by David Harris

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» EMD GP30 (more..)

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» Opelika, Alabama, USA (more..)
» June 16, 1973

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The long-range local has completed its work in Opelika and is about to head west behind a pair of GP30s. Just a few months earlier power likely would have been GP7/9/18. A few months before that, it would have typically been RS-3s. Timing.

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