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Title: |
Great Walton Rail |
Description: |
I was fortunate to ride along with the crew on two seperate occasions. This locomotive also had a cameo role in the movie "My Cousin Vinny", which was filmed nearby. It is now preserved in its original Western Maryland paint scheme on the Georges Creek Railway in Maryland. |
Photo Date: |
8/5/1995 Upload Date: 4/13/2006 8:54:00 PM |
Location: |
Covington, GA |
Author: |
Eric Rickert |
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Locomotives: |
GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9) |
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2780 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
GRWR 6400 |
Description: |
SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen |
Photo Date: |
8/5/1995 Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:00 PM |
Location: |
Newborn, GA |
Author: |
Eric Rickert |
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Action |
Locomotives: |
GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9) |
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262 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
GRWR 6400 |
Description: |
SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen |
Photo Date: |
8/5/1995 Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:03 PM |
Location: |
Newborn, GA |
Author: |
Eric Rickert |
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Action |
Locomotives: |
GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9) |
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320 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
GRWR 6400 |
Description: |
SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen. Judging by the stray truck, it looks like this was also the site of a derailment. |
Photo Date: |
8/5/1995 Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:07 PM |
Location: |
Newborn, GA |
Author: |
Eric Rickert |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9) |
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286 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
GRWR 6400 |
Description: |
Switching the grain elevator. I still remember the pine tree scent from those chip hoppers! |
Photo Date: |
8/5/1995 Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:10 PM |
Location: |
Newborn, GA |
Author: |
Eric Rickert |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9) |
Views: |
187 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
GRWR 6400 |
Description: |
SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen and switching the grain elevator. |
Photo Date: |
8/5/1995 Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:18 PM |
Location: |
Newborn, GA |
Author: |
Eric Rickert |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9) |
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230 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Pulling upgrade from the Alcovy River crossing |
Description: |
Southbound Great Walton train heading the NS interchange at Machen |
Photo Date: |
8/5/1995 Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:09:45 PM |
Location: |
Starrsville, GA |
Author: |
Eric Rickert |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
WM 6400(GP9) GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9) |
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210 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
It's train time in Mansfield. Today, a shared-use path is in this spot. |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
8/5/1995 Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:23 PM |
Location: |
Mansfield, GA |
Author: |
Eric Rickert |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
WM 6400(GP9) GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9) |
Views: |
326 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
GRWR 6400 |
Description: |
NB Great Walton Rail train heading from the NS interchange with empty chip hoppers for Covington |
Photo Date: |
8/5/1995 Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:34 PM |
Location: |
Farrar, GA |
Author: |
Eric Rickert |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9) |
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202 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Site of an earlier derailment |
Description: |
That derailed hopper body with trucks removed stayed there for an least another 10 years |
Photo Date: |
8/5/1995 Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:38 PM |
Location: |
Newborn, GA |
Author: |
Eric Rickert |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9) |
Views: |
231 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
A quintessential southern shortline image |
Description: |
SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen |
Photo Date: |
8/5/1995 Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:42 PM |
Location: |
Farrar, GA |
Author: |
Eric Rickert |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9) |
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196 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Arriving at the NS interchange |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
8/5/1995 Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:46 PM |
Location: |
Machen, GA |
Author: |
Eric Rickert |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
WM 6400(GP9) GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9) |
Views: |
230 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Great Walton at NS interchange |
Description: |
Great Walton Rail train, having picked up the empty woodchip hoppers from NS, is preparing to return north to Covington. |
Photo Date: |
8/5/1995 Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:49 PM |
Location: |
Machen, GA |
Author: |
Eric Rickert |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9) |
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206 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Great Walton at NS interchange |
Description: |
Prior to 1959, this line, as part of the Central of Georgia Ry, continued south to Eatonton |
Photo Date: |
8/5/1995 Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:53 PM |
Location: |
Machen, GA |
Author: |
Eric Rickert |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9) |
Views: |
189 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Site of a previous derailment |
Description: |
SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen |
Photo Date: |
8/5/1995 Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:56 PM |
Location: |
Newborn, GA |
Author: |
Eric Rickert |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9) |
Views: |
242 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Great Walton Rail- I can still smell the pine aroma of those wood chips |
Description: |
Brakemen 'Buzz' is guiding chop nosed GP-9 #6400 backwards as it retrieves empty covered hoppers at the feed mill. It is now preserved in its original Western Maryland paint scheme on the Georges Creek Railway in Maryland. |
Photo Date: |
8/5/1995 Upload Date: 4/13/2006 9:14:48 PM |
Location: |
Newborn, GA |
Author: |
Eric Rickert |
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Locomotives: |
WM 6400(GP9) GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9) |
Views: |
1367 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Still in full Chessie paint, ex WM chop nosed geep works with former CNW unit as primary power this day. |
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Photo Date: |
1/1/2000 Upload Date: 9/11/2010 11:50:42 AM |
Location: |
Social Circle, GA |
Author: |
William Wes Downs |
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Locomotives: |
GRWR 6400(GP9) GRWR 6555(GP9) |
Views: |
707 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
GRWR 6400 |
Description: |
Things have changed in the three ears since this picture was taken. The 6400 has been set free to a Western Maryland museum while the former South Carolina Central #6555 has been painted into Great Walton colors. |
Photo Date: |
3/24/2004 Upload Date: 4/21/2009 3:49:02 PM |
Location: |
Social Circle, GA |
Author: |
Joseph Hinson |
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Locomotives: |
GRWR 6400(GP9) GRWR 6555(GP9) |
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654 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Worse for wear |
Description: |
This tired chop top sits inthe moring sunin Hamlet at the back shovs. I hear she's headed to Cumberland to return to her home rails. |
Photo Date: |
5/10/2008 Upload Date: 5/10/2008 4:19:52 PM |
Location: |
Hamlet, NC |
Author: |
Rick Tufts |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
GRWR 6400(GP9) |
Views: |
897 Comments: 3 |
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Title: |
GRWR geeps show their heritage as they roll by the service tracks on the Social Circle line |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
1/1/2010 Upload Date: 9/11/2010 11:50:44 AM |
Location: |
Social Circle, GA |
Author: |
William Wes Downs |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
GRWR 4537(GP9R) GRWR 6400(GP9) |
Views: |
590 Comments: 3 |
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