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Photo ID: 781476

The six-days-a-week Pine Belt Southern turn from LaFayette slides down CSX toward the downtown NS crossing.

Railroad: Pine Belt Southern Railroad
Locomotive: GE B23-7
Location: Opelika, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: PBRR 3986
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: October 21, 1998


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By: David Harris

Added: Sep 07, 2021

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Photo ID: 780847

Black and white geeps and dead winter vegetation provide little color to the scene as a healthy long-distance local pulls in to work Opelika.

Railroad: Southern Railway
Locomotive: EMD GP38
Location: Opelika, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: Sou 2837
Train ID: Sou 45
Photo Date: January, 1983


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By: David Harris

Added: Aug 31, 2021

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Photo ID: 780772

Four minutes after midnight, CSX 1 leads the office car train past the Western Railway of Alabama coaling tower in Opelika, Alabama, bound for Mobile for post-Hurricane Ida use.

Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)
Locomotive: EMD F40PH
Location: Opelika, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: CSXT 1
Train ID: p00129
Photo Date: August 30, 2021


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By: Casey Thomason

Added: Aug 30, 2021

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Photo ID: 780462

A honey-hole of sunlight hits L&N 4124 at just the right moment - the exact opposite of what usually happens to me on partly cloudy days.

Railroad: Louisville & Nashville
Locomotive: EMD GP38-2
Location: Opelika, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: LN 4124
Train ID: WA 213
Photo Date: March 12, 1974


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By: David Harris

Added: Aug 27, 2021

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Photo ID: 780216

Frequent problems restarting Atlanta-bound trains after the required stop at the Southern crossing in Opelika led to the practice shown in this photo. Crews stopped their trains on the downgrade ... (more)

Railroad: Louisville & Nashville
Locomotive: EMD GP38-2
Location: Opelika, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: LN 4107
Train ID: WA 214
Photo Date: July 27, 1973


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By: David Harris

Added: Aug 24, 2021

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Photo ID: 780125

The usual high-horsepower SP/SSW four-axle power leads CSX intermodal train 144 as it passes Roanoke Junction. The diverging line originally went to Roanoke, but by the time of the photo had been... (more)

Railroad: St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt)
Locomotive: EMD GP60
Location: Opelika, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: SSW 9706
Train ID: CSX 144
Photo Date: June, 1996


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By: David Harris

Added: Aug 23, 2021

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Photo ID: 780124

Built for San Francisco commuter service, 7602 was one of just three GP40P-2s constructed by EMD. In 1994 the rare diesel was at the head of a northbound CSX freight, coupled to slightly less rar... (more)

Railroad: Southern Pacific Railroad
Locomotive: EMD GP40P-2
Location: Opelika, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: SP 7602
Train ID: CSX 616
Photo Date: June, 1994


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By: David Harris

Added: Aug 23, 2021

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Photo ID: 779893

The daily Hamlet-NOLA run-through freight heads for Montgomery where it will move on to L&N rails.

Railroad: Seaboard Coast Line
Locomotive: EMD GP40-2
Location: Opelika, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: SCL 1655
Train ID: WofA 215
Photo Date: September 12, 1974


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By: David Harris

Added: Aug 20, 2021

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Photo ID: 779737

Hamlet-NOLA run-through train 215 - operating as Extra SCL 1610 on this day - rolls across 10th Street. Construction on an overpass has started, and in a few months this at-grade crossing will be... (more)

Railroad: Seaboard Coast Line
Locomotive: EMD GP40
Location: Opelika, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: SCL 1610
Train ID: WofA 215
Photo Date: October, 1973


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By: David Harris

Added: Aug 18, 2021

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Photo ID: 779140

Two GP40s and two first generation geeps are cresting the hill just east/north of Opelika. From this point forward they will mostly be dropping as they head for the Chattahoochee River at West Po... (more)

Railroad: Atlanta & West Point
Locomotive: EMD GP40
Location: Opelika, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: AWP 731
Train ID: WofA 208
Photo Date: August, 1975


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By: David Harris

Added: Aug 11, 2021

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Photo ID: 778961

On what I believe is one of the last runs, the GLE (or American Orient Express) heads west on the former Central of Georgia toward Birmingham. Once the route of some important midwest-Florida str... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: GE P40DC
Location: Opelika, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 817
Train ID: Grand Luxe Express
Photo Date: March 08, 2001


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By: David Harris

Added: Aug 09, 2021

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Photo ID: 777930

That lead SD40-2 may be 'foreign', but it is a much more common sight in these parts than the home road unit behind it - one of CSX's much-loved BQ23-7s.

Railroad: Union Pacific
Locomotive: EMD SD40-2
Location: Opelika, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: UP 3802
Train ID: CSX 615
Photo Date: January, 1994


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By: David Harris

Added: Jul 29, 2021

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Photo ID: 777695

SCL, L&N and Western Railway of Alabama - The Family Lines - initiated two pairs of run-through trains in 1973. One pair - 215/216 - ran between Hamlet and NOLA. The first couple years of operat... (more)

Railroad: Seaboard Coast Line
Locomotive: EMD SD35
Location: Opelika, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: SCL 1913
Train ID: WA 215
Photo Date: May, 1974


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By: David Harris

Added: Jul 26, 2021

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Photo ID: 777271

Back in the day, the procedure for Southern and Western Railway of Alabama trains passing through Opelika included a full stop at the crossing of the two lines. After a crew member ascertained th... (more)

Railroad: Western Railway of Alabama
Locomotive: EMD GP40-2
Location: Opelika, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: AWP 733
Train ID: WA 208
Photo Date: January, 1976


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By: David Harris

Added: Jul 21, 2021

Views: 7,675
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Photo ID: 776946

Southern had a big fleet of GP35s, mostly numbered in the 2600s and 2700s, with all but two in that series riding on AAR Type B trucks. There were also 5 or 6 GP35s that were bought and sublettere... (more)

Railroad: Southern Railway
Locomotive: EMD GP35
Location: Opelika, Alabama, USA
Locomotive #: Sou 211
Train ID: Sou 45
Photo Date: May 31, 1973


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By: David Harris

Added: Jul 17, 2021

Views: 2,790
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