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From a stop |
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After waiting on a westbound to clear Big Bend Tunnel, These two GE's are in notch 8, and laying the sand down to get their loads back up to speed on this .3% grade. |
| Photo Date: |
3/1/2007 Upload Date: 3/18/2007 7:04:00 PM |
| Location: |
Hilldale, WV |
| Author: |
Loyd Lowry |
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CSX 2(AC44CW) CSX 112(AC44CW) |
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| Title: |
Wave as you go by |
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The eastbound loads are in notch 8 and sanding hard as the reason they were stopped passes by with unit 329 going solo on empty gons. |
| Photo Date: |
3/1/2007 Upload Date: 3/18/2007 7:02:09 PM |
| Location: |
Hilldale, WV |
| Author: |
Loyd Lowry |
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CSX 329(AC44CW) CSX 112(AC44CW) CSX 2(AC44CW) |
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1075 Comments: 0 |
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West Portals |
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A very rarely seen location, this is the western portals of the old and new Big Bend Tunnels. |
| Photo Date: |
3/1/2007 Upload Date: 3/11/2007 5:28:46 PM |
| Location: |
Hilldale, WV |
| Author: |
Loyd Lowry |
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| Title: |
Westbound Portal Train |
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Only a handful of photographs have been taken here, and here's the first one from this vantage point. A westbound coal empty emerges at track speed from the west portal of Big Bend Tunnel. |
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3/1/2007 Upload Date: 3/13/2007 2:56:32 PM |
| Location: |
Talcott, WV |
| Author: |
Loyd Lowry |
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CSX 671(AC60CW) |
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752 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
A different perspective |
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No photographers were harmed in the making of this shot. Eastbound coal grinding along at 10mph. |
| Photo Date: |
5/6/2007 Upload Date: 5/6/2007 11:45:23 PM |
| Location: |
Talcott, WV |
| Author: |
Loyd Lowry |
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| Title: |
Casting Shadows |
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After waiting for the always late AMTK 51, 2 GE's throttle up for an assault on the grade upto Big Bend Tunnel. |
| Photo Date: |
5/6/2007 Upload Date: 5/6/2007 11:44:31 PM |
| Location: |
Talcott, WV |
| Author: |
Loyd Lowry |
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| Locomotives: |
CSX 225(AC44CW) CSX 218(AC44CW) |
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580 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Old portal Big Bend |
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Looking out the western portal of the original Big Bend Tunnel. There's not much left of the ventilation factory. |
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6/17/2007 Upload Date: 6/18/2007 1:24:50 AM |
| Location: |
Hilldale, WV |
| Author: |
Loyd Lowry |
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