"Hammerhead" might be a fitting nickname. Unfortunately this is not as ugly as they got when they were turned into B-units. I wonder if one may be mouldering away somewhere but suspect... (more)
Battle scars, neglect, the ravages of time show on this one. I hear about how great things were in the "good old days" but I suspect one would be hard pressed to to find a CSX unit this... (more)
Somehow my usual expert labelling went awry, and I'm too lazy to dig thru all those slides but offhand I'd guess this is R460, the joint CSX/NS train to Winston Salem running ostensibly as a WSSB ... (more)
Former Conrail GP38-2 8235 on her new home for 20 years now was on LC 16 when I caught her in action back in SeptemberIn 2006, CSXT #2419 and slug is at the north end of the Hamlet, North Carolina... (more)
CSX I037 leads a short stack train off the Monroe Sub toward Hamlet Yard.
Amtrak's northbound Silver Star makes its station stop at the historic Hamlet station. The station was built in 1900 for the Seaboard Air Line railroad.
CSX P001 enters Hamlet as they prepare to make a stop before continuing to Wilmington.
Apparently the "Silver Star" came to grief at some point and the damaged units have been set out for transport to the shops for repair. From my collection. Photo by Jim Phipps.
Hundreds of locomotives in the Hamlet deadlines... but one really stands out. CSX 2773, a YN2 GP38-2, sits amongst the many other retired locomotives in the deadline. This rail veteran is definite... (more)
A Huntington overhauled SD70MAC leads an ethanal train south out of Hamlet Yard to go westbound on the Monroe Sub.
Early in the Seaboard System merger we got some "exotics" before some idiot took a spray can to them.
A pair of YN2 painted GE's depart Hamlet as they lead their train for Wilmington.
We were hearing a train coming toward Hamlet from the Wilmington side, but weren't sure of it's symbol. Seeing that it was led by two spartan cab Dash 8s, I hated to see it cross the diamonds with... (more)
EX L&N in a short-lived but nice modern paint scheme.
