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NS 141947 makes up a cut of loaded pulpwood cars on their way to the Georgia Pacific mill in Saffold, GA on the CIRR. The loads came from Opelika, off the PBSR |
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1/1/2004 Upload Date: 6/27/2010 11:12:26 PM |
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Columbus, GA |
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Hank Stephens |
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Older Magor Southern woodchip car with shaker plates along the top. Wet or frozen woodchips could be a problem and Southern worked to prevent stress fatigue on its cars caused by improper shake-out vibrators. |
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1/1/2004 Upload Date: 6/27/2010 11:12:27 PM |
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Opelika, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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I took pictures of examples of typical NS woodchip cars used in the PBSR operation on the LaFayette Branch. |
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1/1/2004 Upload Date: 6/27/2010 11:12:28 PM |
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Opelika, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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184 Comments: 0 |
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Typical NS painted ex SOU Greenville built woodchip hopper shuttled back and forth to the sawmill at Lafayette by the PBSR |
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1/1/2004 Upload Date: 6/27/2010 11:12:29 PM |
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Opelika, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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189 Comments: 0 |
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PBSR train is headed out of the transfer and to the CSX mainline for the short trip to the actual Lafayette Branch. The wait for CSX trains could at times take hours, as this was not a dispatcher priority on the AWP-WofA sub on the right of the picture. |
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1/1/2004 Upload Date: 6/28/2010 12:26:37 AM |
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Opelika, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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PBRR 3986(B23-7) |
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488 Comments: 0 |
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PBSR working the Opelika transfer swapping loads for empties in the harsh shadows of a mid summer sun. |
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1/1/2004 Upload Date: 6/27/2010 11:44:50 PM |
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Opelika, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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PBRR 3986(B23-7) |
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327 Comments: 0 |
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PBSR 3986 waits at the Opelika transfer for the NS local to drop empties for it to move back to LaFayette. I watched for the handover of operations from NS to PBSR and only after seeing this unit and knowing NS had long completed a roster purge of B23-7 |
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1/1/2004 Upload Date: 6/27/2010 11:12:30 PM |
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Opelika, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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PBRR 3986(B23-7) |
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388 Comments: 1 |
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Prior to the start of the "Lafayette Branch" operation of the PBSR, the ex NS GE that became synonomus with the operation worked on the "Hurtsboro line". Here it sits with hoppers full of glass making grade silica (sand) at Seale, AL |
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1/1/2004 Upload Date: 6/27/2010 11:12:31 PM |
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Seale, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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PBRR 3986(B23-7) |
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711 Comments: 1 |
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PBSR 3059 sits at Nuchols, AL on the PBSR "Hurtsboro Line" It would soon end up working on the Troy, AL based Southern Alabama RR (SUAB), another Abernathy operation. |
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1/1/2004 Upload Date: 6/27/2010 11:12:32 PM |
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Nuckols, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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PBRR 3059(GP30) |
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1057 Comments: 1 |
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PBSR 2676 is a former WLE unit (note American Flag on short hood) of obvious Southern Railway heritage with its tuxedo paint and ALCO trade in trucks. The unit rests at the Georgia Pacific log yard to the west of Hurtsboro where the line physically ende |
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1/1/2004 Upload Date: 6/27/2010 11:12:33 PM |
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Hurtsboro, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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PBRR 2676(GP35) |
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896 Comments: 0 |
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PBSR 2676 is an old Alco trucked Southern unit that came home one last time under third-hand ownership on trackage it likely once travelled in its original owner colors. This time it is the PBSR Hurtboro Branch instead of the Union Springs Subdivision o |
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1/1/2004 Upload Date: 6/27/2010 11:12:22 PM |
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Opelika, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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PBRR 2676(GP35) |
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562 Comments: 2 |
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PBSR is moving the empty woodchip cars around the inside track of the transfer, headed toward the CSX side. After dropping the cars, he will then shove out the loads and swap them for the woodracks in the storage track |
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1/1/2004 Upload Date: 6/28/2010 12:26:30 AM |
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Opelika, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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PBRR 3986(B23-7) |
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346 Comments: 0 |
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The GE shoves over the CSX-NS diamond. Signal work on CSX has seen the SOU signal protecting nrothbound CSX movements replaced by new signals at the end of the newly installed "pushbutton" signalled siding. |
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1/1/2004 Upload Date: 6/28/2010 12:21:32 AM |
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Opelika, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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PBRR 3986(B23-7) |
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741 Comments: 1 |
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Two things are gone forever, and two things remain. PBSR has shoved its cut of empty woodchips across the diamond and prepares to gather the empty woodrack in the storage track. These will then be swapped for the load in the transfer to the left and the |
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1/1/2004 Upload Date: 6/28/2010 12:26:34 AM |
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Opelika, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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122 Comments: 0 |
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Trainman Ronnie Reaves flags the rear of the PBSR train as it has to make a quick trip over the NS-CSX diamond to pick up empties in the west transfer. Tie and surface work has Opelika full of tie gondolas, making storage track for normal operations a pr |
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1/1/2004 Upload Date: 6/28/2010 12:10:15 AM |
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Opelika, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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167 Comments: 0 |
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Smoking it up in Opelika--the PBSR has made its swap and is now making a short heated run to Roanoke Jct on CSX trackage rights. The train is coming out of the transfer through the switch on the bottom left and will run a little over a mile to the physic |
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1/1/2004 Upload Date: 6/27/2010 11:45:13 PM |
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Opelika, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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114 Comments: 0 |
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Southern Railway loved brown cars-- this scheme was the epitome of Southern Railway in the 70s and 80s. |
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1/1/2004 Upload Date: 6/27/2010 11:12:23 PM |
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Opelika, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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102 Comments: 0 |
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SOU 133583 is sans its billboard style logo due to years of fading and hauling woodchips. This unit is part of a cut of cars the PBSR had to run across the NS-CSX diamond to retrieve. They are now being shoved to the east side three track transfer yard |
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1/1/2004 Upload Date: 6/28/2010 12:13:01 AM |
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Opelika, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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117 Comments: 0 |
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NS 199498 is a NS black out of a Southern Railway Greenville type hopper. |
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1/1/2004 Upload Date: 6/27/2010 11:12:24 PM |
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Opelika, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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Another weary warrior in the NS legion of chip cars waits at Opelika for the PBSR train |
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1/1/2004 Upload Date: 6/27/2010 11:12:25 PM |
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Opelika, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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SUAB 9424 is a former IC GP18 complete with the factory slant nose and single windshield. The Southern Alabama RR was an Abernathy owned railroad that took over a remnant of the former CofGA Andalusia Branch. Abernathy's railroads were not known for loo |
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6/20/2007 Upload Date: 6/21/2007 1:29:12 PM |
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Troy, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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SA 9424(GP18) |
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SUAB 9424 roster shot at Troy. AL in the early 1990s. This was start up power for the shortline, which now is owned by Pete Claussen and called the Conecuh Valley RR. |
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6/20/2007 Upload Date: 6/21/2007 1:28:50 PM |
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Troy, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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SA 9424(GP18) |
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CLSL 3059 is still in its worn SBD paint on the Southern Alabama RR shortline in Troy, AL in 1996. This unit worked on the Pinebelt Southern RR Hurtsboro line for a time also. |
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6/20/2007 Upload Date: 6/21/2007 1:29:31 PM |
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Troy, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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CLSL 3059(GP30) |
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1159 Comments: 3 |
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Southern woodchip hopper makes up part of the Pinebelt Southern RR train as it heads into the NS transfer in downtown Opelika. |
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6/20/2007 Upload Date: 6/21/2007 1:29:56 PM |
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Opelika, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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464 Comments: 0 |
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PBSR 3986 works its interchange cars and NS tie gons at the Opelika intechange in the early 1990s |
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8/20/2007 Upload Date: 10/17/2009 2:49:31 PM |
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Opelika, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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PBRR 3986(B23-7) |
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PBSR 3986 works NS tie gons at Opelika as it prepares to switch out interchange cars. |
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8/20/2007 Upload Date: 10/17/2009 2:49:14 PM |
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Opelika, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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PBRR 3986(B23-7) |
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PBSR 3986 leads a twenty car train of woodchip cars and typical Southern pulpwood cars on its way to interchange with NS at Opelika. Pinebelt Southern RR never bothered to even add correct reporting marks to this unit nor alter its NS livery. |
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6/20/2008 Upload Date: 6/21/2007 1:07:28 AM |
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Opelika, AL |
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Hank Stephens |
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PBRR 3986(B23-7) |
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651 Comments: 0 |
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