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Viewing Album:  Athens Line Railroad
 
By:Atlanta Rails
Dates:6/2/2009 - 7/24/2010
Album Info:The Athens Line Railroad LLC is a shortline that operates the former Southern Athens Branch between Center and Athens, and the former Central of Georgia between Athens and Watkinsville. The railroad rosters a eclectic mix of older power: Former DRGW GP30 3016 in Hartwell Paint, former IC 8396 still in IC black, and best of all B&O 6525 in untouched Chessie paint.
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HRT 8396 tied up across from the UGA powerplant
Title:  HRT 8396 tied up across from the UGA powerplant
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2008  Upload Date: 6/7/2008 10:32:47 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  nikos kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  318   Comments: 1
GP30 lightbulb
Title:  GP30 lightbulb
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2008  Upload Date: 6/7/2008 10:43:06 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  nikos kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  178   Comments: 0
HRT 3016
Title:  HRT 3016
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2008  Upload Date: 6/7/2008 10:49:50 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  nikos kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30)
Views:  261   Comments: 0
GP30 heads on
Title:  GP30 heads on
Description:  I always liked how these things looked, be enough to scare anyone off the tracks with its 6 lights and that 5 chime horn!
Photo Date:  6/7/2008  Upload Date: 6/7/2008 11:09:33 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  nikos kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30)
Views:  424   Comments: 3
GP30 on noodle rails
Title:  GP30 on noodle rails
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2008  Upload Date: 6/7/2008 11:21:14 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  nikos kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30)
Views:  360   Comments: 2
HRT 3016 laying over across the street from the UGA power plant
Title:  HRT 3016 laying over across the street from the UGA power plant
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2008  Upload Date: 6/7/2008 10:19:49 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  nikos kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30)
Views:  284   Comments: 2
DRGW Stripes staring to come through.
Title:  DRGW Stripes staring to come through.
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/7/2008  Upload Date: 6/7/2008 10:27:03 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  nikos kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30)
Views:  333   Comments: 1
Athens Line power parked at Dairy Pak in the evening light
Title:  Athens Line power parked at Dairy Pak in the evening light
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/2/2009  Upload Date: 7/31/2009 10:27:12 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30) HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  317   Comments: 0
HRT 8396
Title:  HRT 8396
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/2/2009  Upload Date: 7/31/2009 10:14:30 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  294   Comments: 2
Ex-Chessie geep rusting in the weeds
Title:  Ex-Chessie geep rusting in the weeds
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/2/2009  Upload Date: 7/31/2009 10:18:05 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6525(GP9)
Views:  445   Comments: 0
Trust plate
Title:  Trust plate
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/2/2009  Upload Date: 1/21/2010 3:24:49 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6525(GP9)
Views:  572   Comments: 0
HRT 8396 with growing thunderheads in the background
Title:  HRT 8396 with growing thunderheads in the background
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/2/2009  Upload Date: 7/31/2009 10:18:57 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  248   Comments: 1
Backing into the siding
Title:  Backing into the siding
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/31/2009  Upload Date: 7/31/2009 6:07:04 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30)
Views:  281   Comments: 0
Looking out the front door
Title:  Looking out the front door
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/31/2009  Upload Date: 7/31/2009 6:07:05 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30)
Views:  245   Comments: 0
BO 6525 under stormy skies
Title:  BO 6525 under stormy skies
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/31/2009  Upload Date: 7/31/2009 6:07:08 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6525(GP9)
Views:  515   Comments: 1
End of a long day of railfanning
Title:  End of a long day of railfanning
Description:  After a all day tour of area shortlines its back to Athens for a little stop at the hometown Athens Line. The GP30 reflects on the windshield of the foammobile, with important railfan essentials like scanner, drinks and google maps inside.
Photo Date:  7/31/2009  Upload Date: 7/31/2009 10:55:36 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30)
Views:  300   Comments: 0
Tying up in Center
Title:  Tying up in Center
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/11/2009  Upload Date: 12/5/2009 12:17:21 AM
Location:  Center, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30) HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  521   Comments: 3
Rumbling across the Oconee River trestle
Title:  Rumbling across the Oconee River trestle
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/12/2009  Upload Date: 8/12/2009 8:02:03 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories:  Bridge,InCab
Locomotives:  HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  528   Comments: 0
45 foot spine cars waiting to be hauled off for scrap
Title:  45 foot spine cars waiting to be hauled off for scrap
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/12/2009  Upload Date: 9/16/2009 11:28:56 AM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  550   Comments: 0
45 foot spine cars waiting to be hauled off for scrap
Title:  45 foot spine cars waiting to be hauled off for scrap
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/12/2009  Upload Date: 9/16/2009 11:31:54 AM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  701   Comments: 3
Branches hanging from a stored spine car
Title:  Branches hanging from a stored spine car
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/12/2009  Upload Date: 9/16/2009 11:32:41 AM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  350   Comments: 0
HRT 3016 under stormy skies
Title:  HRT 3016 under stormy skies
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/13/2009  Upload Date: 8/13/2009 7:59:09 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30)
Views:  244   Comments: 0
5 Pack just pulled from storage, now off to the scrapper
Title:  5 Pack just pulled from storage, now off to the scrapper
Description:  This set of TTX 45 foot spine cars show the effects of two years of storage in the bushes south of Watkinsville on the CofG. The obsolete cars have been left here till the next working day when the Athens Line will drag them for their final trip to Center where NS will take them somwhere to be scrapped.
Photo Date:  9/6/2009  Upload Date: 9/20/2009 7:10:47 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  330   Comments: 3
Chessie geep out to pasture on a beautiful fall day
Title:  Chessie geep out to pasture on a beautiful fall day
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/28/2009  Upload Date: 12/5/2009 12:13:15 AM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6525(GP9)
Views:  260   Comments: 0
BO 6525 out to pasture
Title:  BO 6525 out to pasture
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/28/2009  Upload Date: 12/5/2009 12:13:15 AM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6525(GP9)
Views:  339   Comments: 1
Backing across East Campus Road
Title:  Backing across East Campus Road
Description:  Taken from public property while the train was in reverse before anyone says anthing
Photo Date:  11/28/2009  Upload Date: 12/5/2009 12:13:16 AM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30)
Views:  191   Comments: 1
HRT 3016 idling at the UGA powerplant
Title:  HRT 3016 idling at the UGA powerplant
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/28/2009  Upload Date: 12/3/2009 2:33:37 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30)
Views:  181   Comments: 2
The beast waits on the hilltop
Title:  The beast waits on the hilltop
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/28/2009  Upload Date: 12/5/2009 12:13:17 AM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30)
Views:  187   Comments: 1
Pulling the emptys across East Campus Road
Title:  Pulling the emptys across East Campus Road
Description:  41 years later. Athens Line pulls a string of emptys out from the UGA heating plant and across East Campus road. Compare to this shot from 1968 http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=52787&nseq=15
Photo Date:  11/28/2009  Upload Date: 12/3/2009 2:49:02 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30)
Views:  242   Comments: 2
Crossing Barnett Shoals Road light
Title:  Crossing Barnett Shoals Road light
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/28/2009  Upload Date: 12/5/2009 12:13:18 AM
Location:  Watkinsville, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30)
Views:  200   Comments: 0
Running light through Watkinsville
Title:  Running light through Watkinsville
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/28/2009  Upload Date: 12/5/2009 12:13:07 AM
Location:  Watkinsville, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30)
Views:  129   Comments: 0
Running light through Watkinsville
Title:  Running light through Watkinsville
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/28/2009  Upload Date: 12/5/2009 12:13:08 AM
Location:  Watkinsville, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30)
Views:  172   Comments: 2
Picking up storage cars
Title:  Picking up storage cars
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/28/2009  Upload Date: 12/5/2009 12:13:09 AM
Location:  Watkinsville, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  169   Comments: 0
HRT 8396 pulling out of the storage siding
Title:  HRT 8396 pulling out of the storage siding
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/28/2009  Upload Date: 12/5/2009 12:13:10 AM
Location:  Watkinsville, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  180   Comments: 1
Leaving town
Title:  Leaving town
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/28/2009  Upload Date: 12/5/2009 12:13:11 AM
Location:  Watkinsville, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  188   Comments: 1
HRT 8396 rolling under the wooden bridge
Title:  HRT 8396 rolling under the wooden bridge
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/28/2009  Upload Date: 12/5/2009 12:13:12 AM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  138   Comments: 0
HRT 3016 parked on the road
Title:  HRT 3016 parked on the road
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/28/2009  Upload Date: 12/5/2009 12:13:13 AM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30)
Views:  166   Comments: 1
HRT 3016 parked on East Campus road
Title:  HRT 3016 parked on East Campus road
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/28/2009  Upload Date: 12/5/2009 12:13:13 AM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30) HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  228   Comments: 2
Smoking it up
Title:  Smoking it up
Description:  The two geeps crank it up to get rolling after picking up the coal hoppers from the power plant
Photo Date:  11/28/2009  Upload Date: 12/3/2009 2:28:22 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  173   Comments: 1
Along East Campus Road
Title:  Along East Campus Road
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/28/2009  Upload Date: 1/21/2010 7:33:02 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  159   Comments: 0
Crossing the College Ave bridge CofG bridge
Title:  Crossing the College Ave bridge CofG bridge
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/28/2009  Upload Date: 12/3/2009 2:38:11 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  210   Comments: 1
HRT 3016
Title:  HRT 3016
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/28/2009  Upload Date: 12/5/2009 12:13:14 AM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30) HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  1095   Comments: 0
Two days after thanksgiving
Title:  Two days after thanksgiving
Description:  ...and the Christmas decorations are already up. Hartwell 8396 rolls north across the North Avenue bridge
Photo Date:  11/29/2009  Upload Date: 12/3/2009 2:31:19 PM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  112   Comments: 0
Athens Line prepares to block the crossings
Title:  Athens Line prepares to block the crossings
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/29/2009  Upload Date: 1/21/2010 7:05:01 PM
Location:  Watkinsville, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  145   Comments: 0
Athens Line blocks the crossing
Title:  Athens Line blocks the crossing
Description:  The SUV would have to wait for over half an hour while they switched storage cars. They probably thought i was nutty to purposely get stuck at the crossing. In this case its far more intersting in the engine than at the crossing.
Photo Date:  12/29/2009  Upload Date: 1/21/2010 7:05:02 PM
Location:  Watkinsville, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  147   Comments: 0
HRT 8396 shoving back
Title:  HRT 8396 shoving back
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/29/2009  Upload Date: 1/21/2010 7:05:03 PM
Location:  Watkinsville, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  129   Comments: 0
HRT 8396 shoving back over some bumpy rail
Title:  HRT 8396 shoving back over some bumpy rail
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/29/2009  Upload Date: 1/21/2010 7:05:04 PM
Location:  Watkinsville, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  89   Comments: 0
Bad track
Title:  Bad track
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/29/2009  Upload Date: 1/21/2010 7:05:06 PM
Location:  Watkinsville, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  235   Comments: 0
Shiny black SUV about to get smashed by rusty black GP10
Title:  Shiny black SUV about to get smashed by rusty black GP10
Description:  or not, train was shoving in reverse
Photo Date:  12/29/2009  Upload Date: 1/21/2010 7:05:07 PM
Location:  Watkinsville, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  200   Comments: 0
Athens Line railroad
Title:  Athens Line railroad
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/29/2009  Upload Date: 1/21/2010 7:05:08 PM
Location:  Watkinsville, GA
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 8396(GP10)
Views:  126   Comments: 0

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