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By:Paul Koprowski
Dates:5/29/2014 - 6/1/2014
Album Info:A special album for a very special and rare event. Pictures from the main event at the old Southern Railway shops in Spencer, NC as well as the C&O Railway Heritage Center at Clifton Forge, VA, the VMT at Roanoke, VA, and B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, MD.
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Old Freight House
Title:  Old Freight House
Description:  The old C&O freight station at Clifton Forge. We were told that it is the only building standing on the property original to the yard. Now it houses many displays relating to the C&O Railway, including a large model layout.
Photo Date:  5/29/2014  Upload Date: 6/4/2014 11:46:14 PM
Location:  Clifton Forge, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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CSX 165114
Title:  CSX 165114
Description:  A former Conrail boxcar, now converted to some sort of work train, rests in the CSX yard right next to the museum property.
Photo Date:  5/29/2014  Upload Date: 6/4/2014 11:50:28 PM
Location:  Clifton Forge, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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CO 614
Title:  CO 614
Description:  One of the main attractions of the museum, Greenbrier 614 rests in the afternoon alongside her auxiliary tender awaiting the day she will pull fast mainline excursions once again.
Photo Date:  5/29/2014  Upload Date: 6/4/2014 11:53:26 PM
Location:  Clifton Forge, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  CO 614(4-8-4)
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The Greenbrier
Title:  The Greenbrier
Description:  Part of the advertising for the stillborn Greenbrier Express luxury train that would have carried passengers between Washington DC and the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulpher Springs, WV.
Photo Date:  5/29/2014  Upload Date: 6/4/2014 11:57:45 PM
Location:  Clifton Forge, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  CO 614(4-8-4)
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Staring Down
Title:  Staring Down
Description:  The great beast gazes across the museum yard at the replacement locomotive that felled so many steamers many decades ago.
Photo Date:  5/29/2014  Upload Date: 6/4/2014 11:58:40 PM
Location:  Clifton Forge, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  CO 614(4-8-4) CO 5828(GP7)
Views:  272   Comments: 0
Different Markings
Title:  Different Markings
Description:  Markings of the Pennsylvania shortline New Hope & Ivyland Railroad adorn the sides of 614's cab, the reporting marks under which this engine moves on the national rail network.
Photo Date:  5/29/2014  Upload Date: 6/4/2014 11:59:22 PM
Location:  Clifton Forge, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  CO 614(4-8-4)
Views:  267   Comments: 0
CSX 912262
Title:  CSX 912262
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Photo Date:  5/29/2014  Upload Date: 2/21/2015 12:57:42 AM
Location:  Clifton Forge, VA
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CO 458
Title:  CO 458
Description:  Nicely restored former C&O combine, both inside and out.
Photo Date:  5/29/2014  Upload Date: 6/15/2014 11:22:24 PM
Location:  Clifton Forge, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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CO 3168
Title:  CO 3168
Description:  This caboose is fully restored inside and out, now part of the tour through the train of former C&O equipment that 614 sits at the head of.
Photo Date:  5/29/2014  Upload Date: 6/6/2014 12:05:00 AM
Location:  Clifton Forge, VA
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CO 90219
Title:  CO 90219
Description:  One of the three former C&O cabooses on the property, this one dating back to the late 1940s.
Photo Date:  5/29/2014  Upload Date: 6/15/2014 11:27:40 PM
Location:  Clifton Forge, VA
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CO 90382
Title:  CO 90382
Description:  Acquired a few years ago from the B&O Railroad Museum, the C&O Railway Historical Society has recently given this old wooden caboose a fresh coat of paint. Note the old C&O lettering still faintly visable underneath.
Photo Date:  5/29/2014  Upload Date: 2/26/2015 9:30:08 PM
Location:  Clifton Forge, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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CO 5828
Title:  CO 5828
Description:  On loan from the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke. We were told by our tour guide that this particular Geep was once assigned to this yard while on the C&O.
Photo Date:  5/29/2014  Upload Date: 6/5/2014 12:08:51 AM
Location:  Clifton Forge, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  CO 5828(GP7)
Views:  246   Comments: 0
NW 1118
Title:  NW 1118
Description:  One of the former Lost Engines of Roanoke sits minus tender at the Roanoke Chapter NRHS storage yard. Built in 1910 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works.
Photo Date:  5/29/2014  Upload Date: 2/21/2015 1:02:03 AM
Location:  Roanoke, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  NW 1118(4-8-0)
Views:  638   Comments: 0
NW 515105
Title:  NW 515105
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Photo Date:  5/29/2014  Upload Date: 2/21/2015 1:06:15 AM
Location:  Roanoke, VA
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CHW 663
Title:  CHW 663
Description:  Former Chesapeake Western Railway unit awaiting a cosmetic restoration like her sister unit over at the Virginia Museum of Transportation. Built by Baldwin in 1946, this unit sat at the Virginia Scrap Iron & Metal Company for many years before being saved along with CHW 662 and four former N&W steam locomotives.
Photo Date:  5/29/2014  Upload Date: 2/21/2015 1:10:57 AM
Location:  Roanoke, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  CHW 663(DS44-660)
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EJL 34
Title:  EJL 34
Description:  A former EJ Lavino & Company tank switcher rests at the back of the NRHS yard in Roanoke. Originally built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1923 for the Utah Copper Company as their number 5, it came east to Pennsylvania in 1946. The Roanoke Chapter NRHS acquired the little locomotive in 1970.
Photo Date:  5/29/2014  Upload Date: 2/21/2015 1:18:22 AM
Location:  Roanoke, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  EJL 34(0-6-0)
Views:  486   Comments: 0
NW 1151
Title:  NW 1151
Description:  One of the Lost Engines of Roanoke, this one destined for eventual restoration and inclusion inside the fence of the Virginia Museum of Transportation, just behind the photographer.
Photo Date:  5/29/2014  Upload Date: 6/5/2014 12:10:13 AM
Location:  Roanoke, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  NW 1151(4-8-0)
Views:  369   Comments: 0
CR 6670
Title:  CR 6670
Description:  Still in faded Conrail blue, former Erie Lackawanna 3639 sits silently with some other non restored equipment owned by the VMT. This is the last unrebuilt unit to survive from the EL SDP45 fleet.
Photo Date:  5/29/2014  Upload Date: 6/15/2014 11:32:02 PM
Location:  Roanoke, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  CR 6670(SDP45)
Views:  356   Comments: 0
RFP 1002
Title:  RFP 1002
Description:  The first Streamliner of the weekend, in storage with some other VMT equipment along the NS tracks through the city.
Photo Date:  5/29/2014  Upload Date: 6/5/2014 12:15:18 AM
Location:  Roanoke, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  RFP 1002(E8A)
Views:  454   Comments: 0
NW 1776
Title:  NW 1776
Description:  A very patriotic locomotive indeed, recently restored by Norfolk Southern.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 6/5/2014 12:19:04 AM
Location:  Roanoke, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  NW 1776(SD45)
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CHW 662
Title:  CHW 662
Description:  Built by Baldwin in 1946, this unit was one of three that would dieselize the Chesapeake Western. Retired in 1964, it would call the yard of Virginia Scrap Iron & Metal Company home for at least forty years, surviving floods and the elements alike, before being donated to VMT along with other rail equipment. The Roanoke Chapter NRHS restored it back to its beautiful CHW paint scheme in 2012, proving that anything in railroad preservation is possible. Here it sits on display, coincidently alongside former CHW 10, the Alco T-6 replacement that sent it and its sisters to the scrapyards back in the 1960s.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 6/15/2014 11:40:56 PM
Location:  Roanoke, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  CHW 662(DS44-660) CHW 10(T6)
Views:  441   Comments: 0
CHW 10
Title:  CHW 10
Description:  Originally built for the N&W, this Alco T-6 is one of only a few to survive today. It sits here on display at the VMT's outdoor yard right next to a Baldwin switcher that it was originally purchased to replace back in 1964.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 6/15/2014 11:44:06 PM
Location:  Roanoke, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  CHW 10(T6)
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WE D-3
Title:  WE D-3
Description:  A former yard switcher from the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway on display in the yard at the Virginia Museum of Transportation. Built in 1941 by EMD, this little switcher eventually made it to the roster of the Norfolk & Western Railway, who would later donate it to the museum.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 2/21/2015 1:26:20 AM
Location:  Roanoke, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  WE D3(NW2)
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NW 1135
Title:  NW 1135
Description:  One out of three of the last surviving Alco C-630s.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 1:00:40 PM
Location:  Roanoke, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  NW 1135(C630)
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NW 522
Title:  NW 522
Description:  A fine example of 1960s N&W freight power. Restored both inside and out by the Roanoke Chapter NRHS and leased to the VMT for display alongside other former roster mates.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 6/15/2014 11:58:52 PM
Location:  Roanoke, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  NW 522(GP30)
Views:  296   Comments: 0
RFP 2305
Title:  RFP 2305
Description:  One of 100 boxcars built by Pullman Standard for the RF&P in 1963.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 2/21/2015 1:30:18 AM
Location:  Roanoke, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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NS 6123
Title:  NS 6123
Description:  Originally N&W 6123, built in 1975 by EMD.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 2/21/2015 1:47:08 AM
Location:  Roanoke, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  NS 6123(SD40-2)
Views:  97   Comments: 0
NW 518409
Title:  NW 518409
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Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 1:06:06 PM
Location:  Roanoke, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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VGN 321
Title:  VGN 321
Description:  Built for the Virginian Railway in 1949 by the St. Louis Car Company, this caboose became part of the Norfolk & Western Railway fleet in 1959 when they absorbed the VGN.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 2/21/2015 1:32:56 AM
Location:  Roanoke, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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SOU 1070
Title:  SOU 1070
Description:  Constructed by Pullman, this coach is named after one of the Southern Railway's presidents. Rebuilt into its current configuration as an open air car for use on excursions during the former steam program era on Southern Railway and successor Norfolk Southern.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 2/21/2015 1:37:43 AM
Location:  Roanoke, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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NW 6
Title:  NW 6
Description:  The oldest locomotive at VMT, this N&W Consolidation was constructed by Baldwin in 1897 and originally numbered 352. Sold to the Virginia Carolina Railroad as their number 6 in 1917, it was reacquired by its original owner a few years later as part of the Norfolk & Western acquisition of the Virginia Carolina.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 2/21/2015 1:42:05 AM
Location:  Roanoke, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  NW 6(2-8-0)
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NW 1218
Title:  NW 1218
Description:  The only Class A to survive, it is quite fitting that this great beast of a machine is preserved and proudly displayed in the city where it was born many years ago. Indeed a fitting tribute to the skilled staff that worked in the N&W Roanoke shops.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 6/16/2014 12:03:22 AM
Location:  Roanoke, VA
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  NW 1218(NW Type A 2-6-6-4)
Views:  333   Comments: 0
AMTK 406
Title:  AMTK 406
Description:  While not as vintage as some of the other units running around the property this weekend, Amtrak 406 is still a cab unit. Built in 1988 for hauling long passenger trains across the US, it was restored to Phase III paint and converted to an NPCU for display with the Amtrak 40th Anniversary train in 2011. It now sees service on the Amtrak Exhibit Train as well as the occasional stint in revenue passenger service on Amtrak trains requiring an NPCU on one end. This weekend it was also one of two Amtrak F40s to appear in this image in the same yard.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 6/6/2014 12:37:03 AM
Location:  Spencer, NC
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  AMTK 406(NPCU)
Views:  169   Comments: 0
CO 8016
Title:  CO 8016
Description:  Built in 1948 by EMD, this unit started life working freight trains as Clinchfield Railroad 800. When the CRR became a part of CSX, the unit was assigned to business trains and other excursions before it was retired and donated to the C&O Railway Historical Society of Clifton Forge, VA. Restored to resemble a C&O cab unit of the 1950s, it has been on lease to the Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad in West Virginia for the past twenty years where it sees regular excursion service.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 6/16/2014 1:53:26 PM
Location:  Spencer, NC
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  CO 8016(F3A)
Views:  203   Comments: 0
Vintage Meets Modern
Title:  Vintage Meets Modern
Description:  C&O 8016 and Amtrak 406 pose together in the Spencer yard as the museum prepares for the Friday night photo shoot.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 6/6/2014 12:11:47 AM
Location:  Spencer, NC
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  CO 8016(F3A) AMTK 406(NPCU)
Views:  169   Comments: 0
NW 611
Title:  NW 611
Description:  One of the more popular locomotives in attendence, N&W 611 poses in the yard with a train of matched coaches courtesy of Norfolk Southern.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 6/6/2014 12:13:09 AM
Location:  Spencer, NC
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  NW 611(4-8-4)
Views:  172   Comments: 0
The Face of 611
Title:  The Face of 611
Description:  Soon the headlight will be showing the way across the NS system on 21st Century Steam excursions.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 6/16/2014 10:35:05 AM
Location:  Spencer, NC
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  NW 611(4-8-4)
Views:  160   Comments: 0
PC 74214
Title:  PC 74214
Description:  A former resident from up north shows off both Penn Central and pre merger PRR markings.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 2/21/2015 1:54:49 AM
Location:  Spencer, NC
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Views:  165   Comments: 0
SOU 200116
Title:  SOU 200116
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Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 2/26/2015 8:41:02 PM
Location:  Spencer, NC
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Views:  135   Comments: 1
SOU 900241
Title:  SOU 900241
Description:  Former MofW boxcar on the outskirts of the North Carolina Transportation Museum.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 2/21/2015 1:52:40 AM
Location:  Spencer, NC
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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SOU 2601
Title:  SOU 2601
Description:  Looking like a short freight parked on a rural branch line, the museum's two vintage Geeps sit parked on the edge of the property for the weekend while the visiting Streamliners get most of the spotlight.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 6/16/2014 10:40:54 AM
Location:  Spencer, NC
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  SOU 2601(GP30) NW 620(GP9)
Views:  165   Comments: 0
Nice Faces
Title:  Nice Faces
Description:  Streamlined cab units from all over the country line up for photos in front of the old Southern Railway roundhouse. What a wonderful sight.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 6/6/2014 12:14:32 AM
Location:  Spencer, NC
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  NKP 190(PA1) RDG 284(F7A) WAB 1009(E8A) UP 949(E9A) NS 4271(F9A) ERIE 833(E8A) NAUG 2019(FL9) WAB 1189(F7A)
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In the Roundhouse
Title:  In the Roundhouse
Description:  ACL 501 poses with some of the visitors as it gets ready for the night photo session.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 6/16/2014 10:45:11 AM
Location:  Spencer, NC
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  ACL 501(E3A) CN 6789(FPA4) PRR 5711(E8A)
Views:  343   Comments: 0
AMTK 307
Title:  AMTK 307
Description:  Largely ignored due to all the festivities but still an interesting piece of equipment none the less. Built in 1979 as part of a large order of passenger locomotives, Amtrak 307 served for many years in long distance service before being purchased by NCTM for future restoration and display. One of the two Amtrak Phase III F40s in the yard this weekend as Amtrak 406 was visiting with the Amtrak Exhibit Train.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 6/6/2014 12:47:43 AM
Location:  Spencer, NC
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  AMTK 307(F40PH)
Views:  372   Comments: 0
DLW 664
Title:  DLW 664
Description:  A late night extra freight stops at a lone station along the Lackawanna Railroad's mainline through the Poconos on its way west. The DL&W A-B-A F unit set was one of the main highlights of the Friday night photo session.
Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 6/6/2014 12:35:48 AM
Location:  Spencer, NC
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  DLW 664(F3A)
Views:  139   Comments: 0
Gathering
Title:  Gathering
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Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 6/16/2014 10:54:46 AM
Location:  Spencer, NC
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  AMTK 406(NPCU) RDG 284(F7A) UP 949(E9A) WAB 1009(E8A) NS 4271(F9A) ERIE 833(E8A) NAUG 2019(FL9)
Views:  470   Comments: 0
Nice Lineup
Title:  Nice Lineup
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Photo Date:  5/30/2014  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 1:09:29 PM
Location:  Spencer, NC
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  SOU 6133(FP7A) PRR 5711(E8A) BO 722(F7A) CO 8016(F3A)
Views:  528   Comments: 0
NW 620
Title:  NW 620
Description:  A one time workhorse of the Norfolk & Western Railway.
Photo Date:  5/31/2014  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 1:12:02 PM
Location:  Spencer, NC
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  NW 620(GP9)
Views:  135   Comments: 0
EMDX 103
Title:  EMDX 103
Description:  The one that started it all, GM 103 was built in 1939 by Electro Motive as an attempt to sell the railroads of the US on the idea of diesel power. No stranger to this yard as this locomotive had visited Spencer to demonstrate to the Southern Railway a diesel at work, later becoming a Southern unit itself. It is now owned by the Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood, MO which has restored it back to its original look while out on demonstration runs. Behind it is one of its B units, also of Southern Railway heritage and now under the ownership of VMT at Roanoke,VA.
Photo Date:  5/31/2014  Upload Date: 6/6/2014 12:15:22 AM
Location:  Spencer, NC
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  EMDX 103(FTA) EMDX 103B(FTB)
Views:  335   Comments: 0
SOO 2500
Title:  SOO 2500
Description:  Built by EMD in 1949 as demonstrator unit 7001. Purchased by the Soo Line for subsidiary Wisconsin Central, it now calls the Lake Superior Railroad Museum home.
Photo Date:  5/31/2014  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 1:14:08 PM
Location:  Spencer, NC
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  SOO 2500(FP7A)
Views:  129   Comments: 0


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