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Sep 26, 2015: Copperhill, TN |
| Description: |
Copperhill, Tennessee, September 26, 2016, 2:43pm: GP38-2s GMTX 2675 and 2005 are shut down at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum yard in Copperhill. The locomotives are owned by GATX Rail Locomotive Group and leased to the TVRM. |
| Photo Date: |
9/26/2015 Upload Date: 9/27/2015 9:43:33 PM |
| Location: |
Copperhill, TN |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
GMTX 2005(GP38-2) GMTX 2675(GP38-2) |
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382 Comments: 1 |
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May 2, 2011: Yard work |
| Description: |
9:42 am. A morning yard job. CSX GP38-2 is labeled on the side as a SD38-2. |
| Photo Date: |
5/2/2011 Upload Date: 5/14/2011 5:10:00 PM |
| Location: |
Kingsport, TN |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 2609(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
507 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CSX Local shoving south |
| Description: |
12:20pm: CSXT GP38-2 2655 pushes a local train of 4 tank cars and a shoving platform south past the old Southern Railway freight depot. |
| Photo Date: |
12/27/2013 Upload Date: 12/31/2013 7:58:12 PM |
| Location: |
Dalton, GA |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 2655(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
109 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
May 28, 2012, Yard moving, Kingsport, TN |
| Description: |
Under late Memorial Day afternoon clouds, CSXT 139 is at the front of a train that is being moved around the CSXT yard at Kingsport, TN, next to the old Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio freight depot. The Kingsport Chamber of Commerce was located in this building until May 25, 2012. |
| Photo Date: |
5/28/2012 Upload Date: 5/29/2012 8:34:14 AM |
| Location: |
Kingsport, TN |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 139(AC44CW) CSX 2733(GP38-2) CSX 7759(C40-8W) |
| Views: |
524 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Around the curve |
| Description: |
10:49am: A CSX freight train follows the curve in front of the Hamlet depot as it heads for the CSX yard. Power is all CSX: ES44AH 711 leads SD40-2s 8143 and 8129, and GP38-2 2755. |
| Photo Date: |
12/26/2014 Upload Date: 12/31/2014 9:11:17 AM |
| Location: |
Hamlet, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 711(ES44AC-H) CSX 8134(SD40-2) CSX 8129(SD40-2) CSX 2775(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
193 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
April 1, 2013, Yard job PA01 |
| Description: |
12:32pm, April 1, 2013: Local and yard job PA01, with four empty plastic pellet hoppers, leads the Silverline Pipe job along Riverside Drive on its way back to the Asheville yard. |
| Photo Date: |
4/1/2013 Upload Date: 4/7/2013 9:56:44 AM |
| Location: |
Asheville, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 5043(GP38-2) NS 3531(B32-8) |
| Views: |
517 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
July 2, 2009 |
| Description: |
A pair of westbound GPs blast through Sylva at 10 mph while my wife Jann watches. They are just a few hundred feet from the Southern Concrete Products plant where they will couple to empty sand hoppers and return to Canton, NC. Just beyond the SCM plant is the interchange for the Great Smokey Mountain Railroad. |
| Photo Date: |
7/2/2009 Upload Date: 12/27/2009 5:00:18 PM |
| Location: |
Sylva, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Roster,Scenic,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 5065(GP38-2) NS 7083(GP50) |
| Views: |
1074 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Jan 19, 2010: Returning to Asheville |
| Description: |
Local PA-01 starts the return to Asheville after swapping pellet cars at the Silverline Plastics pipe plant in Woodfin, NC. The silos in the background are for the storage of the plastic pellets. The plant is about 3 miles north of the Asheville yard, and is the only industry left on the old Craggy line. This run is made three times a week. |
| Photo Date: |
1/19/2010 Upload Date: 1/20/2010 3:41:57 PM |
| Location: |
Woodfin, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 5065(GP38-2) NS 2381(MP15DC) |
| Views: |
1073 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Jan 19, 2010: Run-around |
| Description: |
NS local PA-01 runs around an empty LPG spacer and an empty covered hopper after switching plastic pellet hoppers at the Silverline Plastics pipe plant. The plant, about 3 miles north of the Asheville NS yard, is the only customer left on the old Southern Craggy line which once extended to Merrimon Avenue in Woodfin. This local run is made three time a week. |
| Photo Date: |
1/19/2010 Upload Date: 1/20/2010 3:46:58 PM |
| Location: |
Woodfin, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 5065(GP38-2) NS 2381(MP15DC) |
| Views: |
1132 Comments: 3 |
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Apr 27, 2010: NS local P-59 at the end of the Balsam grade |
| Description: |
NS local P-59 is slowing down as it enters the east side of Sylva. About 500 feet away is a LPG distribution center where the train's 5 LPG tank cars will be dropped and the empty tank cars picked up. 4 boxcars on the train will be taken another mile to the Jackson Paper Products plant in Sylva, where other box cars will be picked up for the return trip to the NS yard in Canton, N.C. |
| Photo Date: |
4/5/2010 Upload Date: 4/29/2010 10:31:22 PM |
| Location: |
Sylva, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 5065(GP38-2) NS 5558(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
811 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Apr 27, 2010: Local P-59 to Sylva |
| Description: |
Westbound local P-59 enters Balsam and stops for inspection before starting down the grade to Sylva |
| Photo Date: |
4/27/2010 Upload Date: 4/29/2010 10:18:24 PM |
| Location: |
Balsam, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Roster,Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 5065(GP38-2) NS 5558(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
944 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Apr 27, 2010: Inspection before starting down the Balsam grade |
| Description: |
The conductor walks down the left side of train P-59 and checks the air hose connections before starting down the grade to Balsam. He will walk up the right side on his way back to the locomotive. |
| Photo Date: |
4/27/2010 Upload Date: 4/29/2010 10:21:32 PM |
| Location: |
Balsam, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 5065(GP38-2) NS 5558(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
962 Comments: 3 |
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Apr 27, 2010: Bridge on the Balsam grade |
| Description: |
Local P-59 crosses over Dark Ridge Road while going down the Balsam grade to Sylva |
| Photo Date: |
4/27/2010 Upload Date: 4/29/2010 10:28:16 PM |
| Location: |
Balsam, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 5065(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
884 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Apr 27, 2010: P-59 in Willets community |
| Description: |
Westbound local P-59rolls through the Willets community on its way to Sylva. |
| Photo Date: |
4/27/2010 Upload Date: 4/29/2010 10:29:39 PM |
| Location: |
Sylva, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 5065(GP38-2) NS 5558(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
839 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Asheville yard |
| Description: |
March 16, 2013, 12:30 pm: Yard job PA01 works the hump track next to the yard tower while a westbound empty coal train waits to leave. |
| Photo Date: |
3/16/2013 Upload Date: 3/17/2013 9:20:49 PM |
| Location: |
Asheville, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NS 7597(ES40DC) NS 7069(GP50) NS 5079(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
465 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Local PA01 and a Lady on an Anchor |
| Description: |
March 21, 2014, Asheville, NC, 12:04pm: Yard job and local PA01 GP38-2 NS 5116 and MP15E NS 2356 pull three empty pellet hoppers past “A Lady on an Anchor”. PA01 has just finished working the Silverline Plastic Pipe plant on the old Craggy line and is now entering the west end of Norfolk Southern’s Asheville yard. |
| Photo Date: |
3/21/2014 Upload Date: 3/30/2014 3:54:19 PM |
| Location: |
Asheville, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 5116(GP38-2) NS 2356(MP15DC) |
| Views: |
337 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS 5116 EMD GP38-2 |
| Description: |
Asheville, NC, Jan 17, 2016, 10:58am: NS 5116, EMD GP38-2, High short hood. 2,000 horse power. Built January, 1974. Former Southern Railroad SOU 5116. |
| Photo Date: |
1/17/2016 Upload Date: 1/23/2016 4:53:32 PM |
| Location: |
Asheville, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 5116(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
248 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Train 65D empty ethanol |
| Description: |
Asheville, NC, April 8, 2016, 12:17pm: Norfolk Southern train 65D, empty ethanol, heads west out of the Norfolk Southern yard in Asheville past the yard job power and the now unused west end yard tower. |
| Photo Date: |
4/8/2016 Upload Date: 4/23/2016 10:32:03 PM |
| Location: |
Asheville, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 2696(SD70M-2) NS 7211(SD80MAC) NS 8040(ES44AC) NS 5116(GP38-2) NS 5156(GP38-2) |
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251 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS local P31 |
| Description: |
April 15, 2013, 12:58pm, Asheville, NC: GP38-2 NS 5122 leads local P31 into the Asheville yard on the first part of its daily Canton-Asheville-Canton run. |
| Photo Date: |
4/15/2013 Upload Date: 6/25/2013 9:10:01 AM |
| Location: |
Asheville, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 5122(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
392 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
May 25, 2012, Yard job PA01 |
| Description: |
May 25, 2012, 1:08pm: Norfolk Southern yard job PA01 has just hit the west limits of the Asheville yard, and is starting to push a cut of cars back into the yard. |
| Photo Date: |
5/25/2012 Upload Date: 6/3/2012 12:50:01 PM |
| Location: |
Asheville, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3541(B32-8) NS 5131(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
253 Comments: 0 |
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Mar 12, 2011: NS Local P31 |
| Description: |
Local P31 enters Asheville from Canton, NC. |
| Photo Date: |
3/12/2011 Upload Date: 3/15/2011 9:00:11 PM |
| Location: |
Asheville, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 5135(GP38-2) CITX 3087(SD40-2) CITX 3096(SD40-2) NS 3220(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
952 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Oops |
| Description: |
Asheville, North Carolina, June 18, 2016, 12:53pm: The yard job, EMD GP38-2 NS 5156 and GP40-2 3023, at Norfolk Southern’s Asheville yard is parked, but closer inspection shows the rear truck on the 5156 in not where it’s supposed to be. The high sun and shadows make it hard to see that one of the wheel sets is off the tracks. |
| Photo Date: |
6/18/2016 Upload Date: 7/2/2016 10:31:03 PM |
| Location: |
Asheville, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3023(GP40-2) NS 5156(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
249 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Yard job PA01 |
| Description: |
8:57am: Asheville yard job PA01 moves a long cut of covered hoppers around the west end of Norfolk Southern’s Asheville yard. |
| Photo Date: |
2/24/2014 Upload Date: 3/7/2014 9:14:28 AM |
| Location: |
Asheville, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 6645(SD60) NS 5157(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
235 Comments: 0 |
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March 21, 2010: Train 134 |
| Description: |
Eastbound NS train 134 crosses Stoner Road just after leaving the Asheville yard |
| Photo Date: |
3/21/2010 Upload Date: 3/24/2010 7:22:29 AM |
| Location: |
Asheville, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9001(C40-9W) NS 9126(C40-9W) NS 9231(C40-9W) NS 5191(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
463 Comments: 0 |
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Jul 30, 2010: Local P31 |
| Description: |
A quartet of EMDs brings NS train P31 from Canton, NC, into the west end of the NS yard at Asheville, NC, with mostly empty coal and wood chip cars. This train is based in Canton, NC, next to the Evergreen Packaging paper plant. The train makes the daily round trip from Canton to Asheville on the NS Murphy Branch which ends in Andrews, NC. |
| Photo Date: |
7/30/2010 Upload Date: 8/1/2010 8:34:42 PM |
| Location: |
Asheville, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 3203(SD40-2) NS 7018(GP50) NS 7069(GP50) NS 5261(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
963 Comments: 3 |
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Oct 13, 2011: Switching work at New Line |
| Description: |
2:23 pm. Under dark skies with rain ready to fall, NS GP60 7106 pulls east while doing some switching work, activating the crossing lights and gate at New Line, in Morristown, TN. The double track is the Norfolk Southern “A” line (Bristol line) that runs from Knoxville to Bristol, VA. The set of tracks coming off the A line through the crossing is the start of the “S” line that goes to Linwood, NC. |
| Photo Date: |
10/13/2011 Upload Date: 10/14/2011 8:28:09 PM |
| Location: |
Morristown, TN |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 7106(GP60) NS 5331(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
564 Comments: 0 |
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Apr 6, 2012: CEFX 7115 |
| Description: |
Apr 6, 2012, 11:58 am: A west-facing local sits on the siding beside the NS “A” line just east of the depot in Greeneville. |
| Photo Date: |
4/6/2012 Upload Date: 4/22/2012 8:05:17 AM |
| Location: |
Greeneville, TN |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CEFX 7115(SD40-2) NS 5577(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
179 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
First responder train power |
| Description: |
Asheville, North Carolina, August 1, 2017, 6:37pm: NS 5642 EMD GP38-2 is painted in a special scheme and is used to pull the Norfolk Southern safety train to different locations in the NS system. Unfortunately, while the train was at the NS yard in Asheville it was blocked from view by a cut of plastic pellet covered hoppers, and there was no way to get any pictures of the train itself. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/2017 Upload Date: 9/3/2017 8:12:20 PM |
| Location: |
Asheville, NC |
| Author: |
Jimmie Fisher |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NS 5642(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
141 Comments: 0 |
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