last train of 2007. A oppositely numbered GP40-2 idles away the evening at the Cordele yard office in company of CSX B40-8 5937 and a linguistically confused CN hopper.
Local 61G passes the decrepit Southern Rwy freight house at Cordele behind a matched pair of ex-CR SD50s.
Ex-Georgia Northern 13 with its highly acceptable pilot. For a view of this locomotive still in Georgia Northern paint check out Martin K OToole's shot, 69797. To see it after being renumbered to ... (more)
CSX train of autoracks rolls eastbound past the water tower after getting clear signal.
Formerly Georgia Northern 13, this was, to my knowledge, the only SW-8 ever on SOU roster. Now SOU could have taken off that pilot and "standardized the fleet" as their future merger partner no d... (more)
Originally Central of Georgia.
Macon-Valdosta freight rumbles across the HOG at Cordele.
The sun sets over the Heart of Georgia RR at Cordele.
Handing up the orders to the rear end
A typical Sat morning at Cordele. The HOG train is ready to head to Americus as K981 crosses the diamond.
Behind the engine is SAM Shortline's most historic acquisition--the Samuel H. Hawkins. According to Lee Kinnamon, this observation/tavern car was built in 1939 for the Florida East Coast Railway.... (more)
