On a SB CRR train. We had been on the loops that day.

Plain old nose on this one. I guess this was the first Hamlet trip. I was wrong on previous slides.

Rebuilt, deturbo'd, de d/b'd SD-35 finished its working days with #3 at Hamlet.

On my first trip to Hamlet, a little motivation. We sure didn't see these on the West Coast.

Nice little rebuilt GP-7. The 4700-4800s didn't have alignment draft gear, while the 4600s did.

These were nice looking units. The strobe lights were intensely disliked and didn't last long.

One of my first trips to Hamlet. I found I liked the place and the ready track was great when the sun was shining.

Hostlers are moving this unit from the servicing area to the ready track. In those days as I recall this included a pass thru the wash rack..

Ex-Durham and Southern unit has a homecoming and looks very nice even if it is in the new owner's paint job.

Inbound coal train nearing the yard. Unusual for them to come into the yard.

Here it is again, the face only a mother could love leading a couple of decent looking units inbound. It was common to run all the way to the north end, then back into the yard.

I had seen that FL scheme splashed (poorly) all over the L&N but this this was the first old repainted SCL unit I saw.

Specially modified SD-35 with no turbo, no d/b for service on the hump and this new yard, as I recall the last or next to last hump yard built in America.

In the days before CSX wisely severed the old SAL north of Norlina.

Leading the SB train off the WSSB from Winston Salem. It almost always had an NW unit. I had come from CA recently and decided NC was liveable, after a trip to Hamlet.