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Viewing Album:  CSXT A&WP Tie Renewal 2007
 
By:Hank Stephens
Dates:7/21/2007 - 8/21/2007
Album Info:Miscellaneous Pictures of tie gang working around West Point, GA
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W0048 Ballast Train sorting cars at West Point, Ga getting ready to spread ballast
Title:  W0048 Ballast Train sorting cars at West Point, Ga getting ready to spread ballast
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 7/30/2007 1:47:07 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  162   Comments: 1
Trackman unloading spikes from a bad order spiker with tie gang support truck. Spiker would be sent by truck to a repair shop soon after
Title:  Trackman unloading spikes from a bad order spiker with tie gang support truck. Spiker would be sent by truck to a repair shop soon after
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 8/27/2007 1:34:55 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  163   Comments: 0
Plasser Theurer Dyna CAT (Dynamic Continuous Action Tamper and Aligner) at West Point. This unit works with several "chase" tampers to do surfacing behind the tie renewal gang.
Title:  Plasser Theurer Dyna CAT (Dynamic Continuous Action Tamper and Aligner) at West Point. This unit works with several "chase" tampers to do surfacing behind the tie renewal gang.
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 4/16/2008 11:12:06 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  822   Comments: 0
Front of Dyna CAT tamper- aligner
Title:  Front of Dyna CAT tamper- aligner
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 4/16/2008 11:12:27 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  115   Comments: 0
Another view of Dyna CAT tamper-aligner. This unit is actually a stabilizer outfitted with tamping and aligning trailer, making an all-in-one Dynamic Continuous Action Tamper-Aligner-Stabilizer
Title:  Another view of Dyna CAT tamper-aligner. This unit is actually a stabilizer outfitted with tamping and aligning trailer, making an all-in-one Dynamic Continuous Action Tamper-Aligner-Stabilizer
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 4/16/2008 11:12:45 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  137   Comments: 0
Pyke Ballast Regulator at West Point--this was the lead plow ahead of the tie gang
Title:  Pyke Ballast Regulator at West Point--this was the lead plow ahead of the tie gang
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 8/27/2007 1:36:00 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  124   Comments: 0
Materials staged for crossing replacement at HWY 29 crossing in West Point
Title:  Materials staged for crossing replacement at HWY 29 crossing in West Point
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 8/27/2007 1:36:34 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  122   Comments: 0
W0048 sorting ballast cars in preparation to drop ballast ahead of the tie gang in West Point
Title:  W0048 sorting ballast cars in preparation to drop ballast ahead of the tie gang in West Point
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 7/30/2007 1:47:45 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  131   Comments: 0
Equipment used to replace Hwy 29 crossing CSX dump truck and backhoe trailer with tool box, slightly worse for wear.
Title:  Equipment used to replace Hwy 29 crossing CSX dump truck and backhoe trailer with tool box, slightly worse for wear.
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 8/27/2007 1:37:09 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  117   Comments: 0
View of brand new solar powered remote dumping ballast cars
Title:  View of brand new solar powered remote dumping ballast cars
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 12/21/2007 5:10:36 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  188   Comments: 0
CSXT 966005 solar powered remote ballast car side view at LaGrange
Title:  CSXT 966005 solar powered remote ballast car side view at LaGrange
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 12/21/2007 5:11:05 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  157   Comments: 0
CSX 966099
Title:  CSX 966099
Description:  Newer solar powered remote dumping ballast hopper on ballast train tied down at LaGrange over Christmas
Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 12/21/2007 5:11:28 PM
Location:  LaGrange, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  196   Comments: 0
CSX 966041 solar powered remote dump ballast car
Title:  CSX 966041 solar powered remote dump ballast car
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 12/21/2007 5:09:57 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  669   Comments: 0
CSX W032 ballast train tied down on old transfer yard at LaGrange. This train sports new remote controlled ballast rebuilds.
Title:  CSX W032 ballast train tied down on old transfer yard at LaGrange. This train sports new remote controlled ballast rebuilds.
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 12/21/2007 5:09:35 PM
Location:  LaGrange, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  CSX 7669(C40-8W)
Views:  372   Comments: 1
Detail of Solar panel and remote equipment control box of ballast car
Title:  Detail of Solar panel and remote equipment control box of ballast car
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 12/21/2007 5:11:49 PM
Location:  LaGrange, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  184   Comments: 0
CSX Tie gang T-3 crew bus
Title:  CSX Tie gang T-3 crew bus
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 8/27/2007 1:37:49 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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CSX 964228 is a former wet rock hopper cleaned up for ballast service over the CSX system in 2007. Bone Valley was in the middle of phosphate mining rationalization, seeing some plants merged and closed, orphaning the old cars
Title:  CSX 964228 is a former wet rock hopper cleaned up for ballast service over the CSX system in 2007. Bone Valley was in the middle of phosphate mining rationalization, seeing some plants merged and closed, orphaning the old cars
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 1/6/2009 9:25:48 PM
Location:  LaGrange, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  344   Comments: 0
Another view of former phosphate hoppers now in ballast service at LaGrange, GA
Title:  Another view of former phosphate hoppers now in ballast service at LaGrange, GA
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 12/16/2007 2:35:38 AM
Location:  LaGrange, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  118   Comments: 0
Untitled
Title:  Untitled
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 7/30/2007 1:48:30 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  99   Comments: 1
CSX 5970 with full out shot of W0048 ballast train at West Point in early 2008
Title:  CSX 5970 with full out shot of W0048 ballast train at West Point in early 2008
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 7/30/2007 1:49:44 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 5970(B40-8)
Views:  290   Comments: 1
W0048 in siding at West Point, GA waiting for dispatcher to clear it for a day of dumping ballast
Title:  W0048 in siding at West Point, GA waiting for dispatcher to clear it for a day of dumping ballast
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 7/30/2007 1:48:54 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  141   Comments: 1
Second Shot of Trackman pulling spike off a bad order spiker soon to be sent to home shop for repairs
Title:  Second Shot of Trackman pulling spike off a bad order spiker soon to be sent to home shop for repairs
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 8/27/2007 1:38:22 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  97   Comments: 0
Brand new John Deere 80C track hoe outfitted as tie handler on transport flat
Title:  Brand new John Deere 80C track hoe outfitted as tie handler on transport flat
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 12/16/2007 2:36:10 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  841   Comments: 0
CSX 5226 waits inold AWP transfer yard at LaGrange over Christmas. The unit was being used to test new CTC operation around LaGrange and to haul ballast into the Kia Assembly plant as the leads were being built
Title:  CSX 5226 waits inold AWP transfer yard at LaGrange over Christmas. The unit was being used to test new CTC operation around LaGrange and to haul ballast into the Kia Assembly plant as the leads were being built
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 12/30/2008 8:37:29 AM
Location:  LaGrange, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  CSX 5226(ES44DC)
Views:  272   Comments: 1
CSX 5226 rear view as it waits in old AWP transfer yard at LaGrange over Christmas. The unit was being used to test new CTC operation around LaGrange and to haul ballast into the Kia Assembly plant as the leads were being built
Title:  CSX 5226 rear view as it waits in old AWP transfer yard at LaGrange over Christmas. The unit was being used to test new CTC operation around LaGrange and to haul ballast into the Kia Assembly plant as the leads were being built
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 12/30/2008 8:38:00 AM
Location:  LaGrange, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 5226(ES44DC)
Views:  226   Comments: 1
CSX 5970 ex CR B40-8 on ballast Train W0048. These units have been bumped down to locals and MofW service during 2007-2008, replacing the last of the four and six axle Dash Seven units being retired and sold/scrapped
Title:  CSX 5970 ex CR B40-8 on ballast Train W0048. These units have been bumped down to locals and MofW service during 2007-2008, replacing the last of the four and six axle Dash Seven units being retired and sold/scrapped
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 7/30/2007 1:50:14 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  CSX 5970(B40-8)
Views:  377   Comments: 1
CSXT MofW gang transport flats from end showing tie down equipment. A rail gang and a tie gang spent Christmas 2008 in the yard as equipment was refurbished for a new year. A remote ballast train sits to the right.
Title:  CSXT MofW gang transport flats from end showing tie down equipment. A rail gang and a tie gang spent Christmas 2008 in the yard as equipment was refurbished for a new year. A remote ballast train sits to the right.
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 12/30/2008 8:38:26 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  103   Comments: 0
Old AWP Transfer Yard with various equipment sitting out the Christmas break in 2008
Title:  Old AWP Transfer Yard with various equipment sitting out the Christmas break in 2008
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 12/30/2008 8:38:54 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  154   Comments: 1
CSX 2480 sits in LaGrange as power for the rail gang spending Christmas break in the old AWP transfer yard.
Title:  CSX 2480 sits in LaGrange as power for the rail gang spending Christmas break in the old AWP transfer yard.
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 12/30/2008 8:39:25 AM
Location:  LaGrange, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 2480(SD50-2)
Views:  229   Comments: 1
CSX 2480 sits with its rail gang transport train in the old AWP transfer yard in LaGrange Georgia. The gang unloaded into an old pulpwood loading spur where mechanics spent the better part of December and early January refurbishing and repairing machiner
Title:  CSX 2480 sits with its rail gang transport train in the old AWP transfer yard in LaGrange Georgia. The gang unloaded into an old pulpwood loading spur where mechanics spent the better part of December and early January refurbishing and repairing machiner
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 12/30/2008 8:40:00 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 2480(SD50-2)
Views:  290   Comments: 1
Another shot of rail gang transport train power in the form of CSX 2480 at LaGrange, GA in late 2008
Title:  Another shot of rail gang transport train power in the form of CSX 2480 at LaGrange, GA in late 2008
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 12/30/2008 8:40:47 AM
Location:  LaGrange, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 2480(SD50-2)
Views:  270   Comments: 2
CSX 2485 on W0048 ballast train in Dark Furture scheme
Title:  CSX 2485 on W0048 ballast train in Dark Furture scheme
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 7/30/2007 1:50:51 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 2485(SD50-2)
Views:  366   Comments: 1
Brand new Nordco tie exchanger on transport flat prior to unloading
Title:  Brand new Nordco tie exchanger on transport flat prior to unloading
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 12/16/2007 2:36:41 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  189   Comments: 0
Untitled
Title:  Untitled
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 1/6/2009 9:26:15 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  72   Comments: 0
Fairmont-Tamper Tamper Mark Four (IV). This tamper also has alignment capability and was used along with a ballast regulator to surface the HWY 29 crossing being replaced. This unit was not part of the tie gang.
Title:  Fairmont-Tamper Tamper Mark Four (IV). This tamper also has alignment capability and was used along with a ballast regulator to surface the HWY 29 crossing being replaced. This unit was not part of the tie gang.
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 8/27/2007 1:38:50 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  161   Comments: 0
Harsco Grinding Train control cab unit with exposed grinding heads
Title:  Harsco Grinding Train control cab unit with exposed grinding heads
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 4/16/2008 11:15:26 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  96   Comments: 0
Harsco grinding train water tanker
Title:  Harsco grinding train water tanker
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 4/16/2008 11:15:47 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  65   Comments: 0
Another view of Harsco grinding train and A745 power. Picture is backlit, but shows length of grinder train.
Title:  Another view of Harsco grinding train and A745 power. Picture is backlit, but shows length of grinder train.
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 4/16/2008 11:16:04 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  104   Comments: 1
Harsco grinding train support trucks
Title:  Harsco grinding train support trucks
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 4/16/2008 11:16:23 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  93   Comments: 0
detail of plumbing and power cable connections between grinding car and power generator car
Title:  detail of plumbing and power cable connections between grinding car and power generator car
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 4/16/2008 11:16:44 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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View of other side of plumbing and power cable connections on generator power car
Title:  View of other side of plumbing and power cable connections on generator power car
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 4/16/2008 11:17:00 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  63   Comments: 0
Crew dorm cars on old piggyback flats on Harsco Grinding train
Title:  Crew dorm cars on old piggyback flats on Harsco Grinding train
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 4/16/2008 11:17:18 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  80   Comments: 0
Harsco grinding train generator power car. This is a former B30-7 supplying power to electric motors running grinding wheels and motive power to move the train
Title:  Harsco grinding train generator power car. This is a former B30-7 supplying power to electric motors running grinding wheels and motive power to move the train
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 4/16/2008 11:17:39 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  248   Comments: 0
Harsco grinder train sitting in house track at West Point, behind temporary derails and blue flag protection. Local A745 power is sitting behind the derail in the woodyard spur with its train in the siding out of the picture.
Title:  Harsco grinder train sitting in house track at West Point, behind temporary derails and blue flag protection. Local A745 power is sitting behind the derail in the woodyard spur with its train in the siding out of the picture.
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 4/16/2008 11:17:59 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  121   Comments: 1
Water and fuel tanker on Harsco grinding train.
Title:  Water and fuel tanker on Harsco grinding train.
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 4/16/2008 11:20:54 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  78   Comments: 0
Detail of one grinding assembly. Each grinding car had three sets.
Title:  Detail of one grinding assembly. Each grinding car had three sets.
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 4/16/2008 11:18:25 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  83   Comments: 0
Water and fuel tanker for Harsco Grinding train---there were a total of three of these cars on the train.
Title:  Water and fuel tanker for Harsco Grinding train---there were a total of three of these cars on the train.
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 4/16/2008 11:18:47 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  90   Comments: 0
Side view of whole Harsco Grinder train in house track at West Point GA
Title:  Side view of whole Harsco Grinder train in house track at West Point GA
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 4/16/2008 11:19:15 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  83   Comments: 0
Full view of production grinding car. While each end had a bank of three grinding assemblies, the three intermediate cars had for heads
Title:  Full view of production grinding car. While each end had a bank of three grinding assemblies, the three intermediate cars had for heads
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Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 4/16/2008 11:20:31 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  80   Comments: 0
Untitled
Title:  Untitled
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/21/2007  Upload Date: 4/16/2008 11:20:07 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  171   Comments: 1

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