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Southern 218
Title:  Southern 218
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/30/1974  Upload Date: 12/22/2005 9:39:12 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Warren Calloway
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 218(SD35)
Views:  2326   Comments: 1
SOU 5004
Title:  SOU 5004
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1979  Upload Date: 11/24/2010 11:07:48 PM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Warren Calloway
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 5004(GP38-2)
Views:  1276   Comments: 0
Trailing through downntown
Title:  Trailing through downntown
Description:  I went to the old Southern station in downtown Greensboro, and caught a southbound purely by dumb luck. At the time, cabooses were common, and it was no surprise to see this red Southern car bringing up the rear. The Sandersville covered hoppers were common on Southern trains, as they shipped incredible quantities of clay from a quarry in Georgia.
Photo Date:  8/2/1979  Upload Date: 11/13/2016 2:53:19 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  851   Comments: 0
SOU 2660 on TR 359
Title:  SOU 2660 on TR 359
Description:  Bob Graham photo
Photo Date:  11/14/1979  Upload Date: 3/19/2022 9:15:15 PM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Bob Graham
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 2660(GP35) SOU 2670(GP35) SOU 5036(GP38-2)
Views:  749   Comments: 1
NS 2752
Title:  NS 2752
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/22/2012 12:44:07 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 2752(GP38) SOU 2704(GP35) NS 2621(GP30) NS 2721(GP38)
Views:  1625   Comments: 0
NS 3271
Title:  NS 3271
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/23/2012 12:06:07 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 3271(SD40-2)
Views:  988   Comments: 0
NS 3300
Title:  NS 3300
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/22/2012 12:45:00 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NS 3300(SD40-2) SOU 3320(SD40-2)
Views:  1499   Comments: 0
NS 3301
Title:  NS 3301
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/19/2012 12:32:35 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NS 3301(SD40-2)
Views:  918   Comments: 0
NS 6074
Title:  NS 6074
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/24/2012 9:45:19 PM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Adam Finger
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 6074(SD40-2) SOU 3216(SD40-2) NS 6170(SD40-2)
Views:  1738   Comments: 0
NW 6076
Title:  NW 6076
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/23/2012 12:05:07 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NW 6076(SD40-2)
Views:  969   Comments: 1
NS 6119
Title:  NS 6119
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/25/2012 5:12:33 PM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 6119(SD40-2)
Views:  1103   Comments: 0
NS 6125
Title:  NS 6125
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/21/2012 12:24:09 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 6125(SD40-2) SOU 3221(SD40-2)
Views:  1021   Comments: 0
NS 6135
Title:  NS 6135
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/23/2012 12:05:48 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 6135(SD40-2) SOU 7021(GP50)
Views:  1047   Comments: 0
NS 6521
Title:  NS 6521
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/22/2012 12:42:53 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 6521(SD50) NS 6515(SD50)
Views:  1072   Comments: 0
NS 8076
Title:  NS 8076
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/17/2012 12:10:53 PM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 8076(C30-7)
Views:  611   Comments: 0
NW 8508
Title:  NW 8508
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/22/2012 12:43:46 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NW 8508(C36-7)
Views:  694   Comments: 0
NS 8610
Title:  NS 8610
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/17/2012 12:10:27 PM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 8610(C39-8) NS 8583(C39-8)
Views:  966   Comments: 0
NS 8614
Title:  NS 8614
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/24/2012 9:44:21 PM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 8614(C39-8) NS 8590(C39-8)
Views:  1199   Comments: 0
NW 1645
Title:  NW 1645
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/25/2012 4:18:12 PM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NW 1645(SD40-2)
Views:  1032   Comments: 0
NW 8007
Title:  NW 8007
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/21/2012 12:23:19 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NW 8007(C30-7) NS 6195(SD40-2)
Views:  1054   Comments: 0
NW 8039
Title:  NW 8039
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/23/2012 12:06:30 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  NW 8039(C30-7) NW 8014(C30-7) NS 6176(SD40-2) NW 6076(SD40-2)
Views:  1532   Comments: 1
SOU 3150
Title:  SOU 3150
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/19/2012 12:32:18 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 3150(SD45)
Views:  559   Comments: 0
SOU 3106
Title:  SOU 3106
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/21/2012 12:23:55 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 3106(SD45) SOU 6314(SD24)
Views:  1308   Comments: 0
SOU 3156
Title:  SOU 3156
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/21/2012 12:23:39 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 3156(SD45) SOU 3149(SD45)
Views:  1075   Comments: 0
SOU 3292
Title:  SOU 3292
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/21/2012 12:58:08 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOU 3292(SD40-2)
Views:  631   Comments: 0
SOU 3324
Title:  SOU 3324
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/23/2012 12:05:30 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 3324(SD40-2) NS 3327(SD40-2) NS 3301(SD40-2)
Views:  1558   Comments: 2
SOU 3974
Title:  SOU 3974
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/20/2012 1:15:44 PM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 3974(B23-7)
Views:  1167   Comments: 0
SOU 3977
Title:  SOU 3977
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/22/2012 12:43:24 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 3977(B23-7) NS 2594(GP30)
Views:  1426   Comments: 1
SOU 7032
Title:  SOU 7032
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/21/2012 12:22:56 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Daniel Finger
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 7032(GP50) SOU 7043(GP50)
Views:  922   Comments: 0
Hi hood GP 30
Title:  Hi hood GP 30
Description:  One feature both N&W and Southern shared was ordering their second generation power with short high hoods. On most units, it made for a brick like appearance; on the GP 30's, which both roads rostered, it was really different. Here's a short hood view of one of Southern's units on one of two trains working Greensboro.
Photo Date:  8/2/1980  Upload Date: 1/5/2014 4:16:55 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 2625(GP30) SOU 3901(U23B) SOU 3328(SD40-2)
Views:  1852   Comments: 0
Four axle power
Title:  Four axle power
Description:  Most of the through freights I saw this day had six axle power. One that didn't was this one, which came south with four 4 axle units. Interestingly for you numbercrunchers, the two units to the right had opposing numbers. Note GP 30, number 2625, and ahead of it, GP 35 2526. A GE rounds out the shot.
Photo Date:  8/2/1980  Upload Date: 1/5/2014 4:16:59 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 3901(U23B) SOU 2625(GP30) SOU 2526(GP35)
Views:  1702   Comments: 0
Moving up
Title:  Moving up
Description:  A new MP 15 works at Pomona Yard in Greensboro. I had been here a year prior when the power was still NW 2s, so the bigger MP 15s were a step up, though I saw them having wheel slip a couple of times when shoving long cuts into the departure tracks.
Photo Date:  8/9/1980  Upload Date: 11/11/2016 4:12:48 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOU 2352(MP15DC)
Views:  1238   Comments: 0
Vorking hard
Title:  Vorking hard
Description:  New MP 15 2353 pushes hard on a cut of cars being set over for pick up by a later train. The yard was busy enough to keep two switch engines busy all afternoon, and the parade of southbounds was bringing more, even as those trains picked up what the yard jobs had ready.
Photo Date:  8/9/1980  Upload Date: 11/12/2016 4:29:20 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 2353(MP15DC)
Views:  1650   Comments: 0
Hi hood GP 35
Title:  Hi hood GP 35
Description:  This high short hood GP 35 was in consist on a southbound, making a set out and pick up at Pomona Yard. Hope the folks in the power departmenu didnt get it confused with the following unit: same numbers, different order.
Photo Date:  8/9/1980  Upload Date: 11/12/2016 4:31:24 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Track
Locomotives:  SOU 2526(GP35)
Views:  1345   Comments: 0
Left on the main
Title:  Left on the main
Description:  Two uaits work their set off into Pomona Yard as their train waits on the main. The Amtrak station at that time was at the yard office, with e small ticket window and waiting room. I got there around 1 PM that day, waiting for the northbound Crescent, which would arrive around 3:30 AM. I had a front row seat for hours of action ap trains stopped to make ~et offs and pick ups, and the yard engines did their thing in between. It was a great place to see the action.
Photo Date:  8/9/1980  Upload Date: 11/12/2016 4:38:54 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 2526(GP35) SOU 2730(GP38)
Views:  1232   Comments: 0
Pulling them out
Title:  Pulling them out
Description:  A power set comes out of the yard with a cut of cars to roll south. Its train is waiting on the main. The two SD 35's were common"on road freights at this time, along with either an SD 40 or 45. Most of the trains I saw that day had some combinatfon of SD 35's, 40's, and 45's, typically in three unit sets, almost all of them running mong hood forward which was standard Southern practice.
Photo Date:  8/9/1980  Upload Date: 11/12/2016 4:41:38 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 3084(SD35) SOU 3015(SD35)
Views:  1189   Comments: 0
On into the night
Title:  On into the night
Description:  Well after dark, a southbound works the yard. The traffic here was not monumental-no one will confuse this line with the UP in Nebraska-but it was steady. I was there about 15 hours, and saw 15 or so trains. I didnt keep notes in those days(silly me, theyd be really helpful now, 35 years later), so dont have am exact count, but it seemed like there was a train every hour or so.
Photo Date:  8/9/1980  Upload Date: 11/12/2016 4:50:20 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 3084(SD35) SOU 3187(SD40)
Views:  1187   Comments: 0
Lucky for the brakie
Title:  Lucky for the brakie
Description:  This southbound thqottles up as it passes the Pomona Yard office in a mid afternoon thunderstorm, its ground crew relieved there will be no work for them here today. An SD 40-2 and two 45's make up the power.
Photo Date:  8/9/1980  Upload Date: 11/12/2016 4:54:29 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Station,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 3314(SD40-2) SOU 3158(SD45) SOU 2353(MP15DC)
Views:  17089   Comments: 3
Making work
Title:  Making work
Description:  Another southbound sets off cars at Pomona. Once hes gone, the yard crew will be back at it, sorting them out for their destinations when Mondays local jobs come back to work.
Photo Date:  8/9/1980  Upload Date: 11/12/2016 4:57:34 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 3057(SD35) SOU 3258(SD40-2) SOU 3328(SD40-2)
Views:  1401   Comments: 0
Thunder in the storm
Title:  Thunder in the storm
Description:  A southbound behind a long hood forward SD 45 roll past the yard office in a thunderstlrm, making a little thunder of its own as it passes. Hell pull down about 60 carlengths, and the head brakie will pull the cut lever, allowing the cars to be pulled ahead!and set off in the yard.
Photo Date:  8/9/1980  Upload Date: 11/12/2016 4:46:00 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 3129(SD45) SOU 3076(SD35) SOU 3246(SD40-2)
Views:  1679   Comments: 1
All nighter
Title:  All nighter
Description:  A southbound slows to work Pomona Yard, the head brakeman ready to drop off and count cars for the set out. Theyll set out and pick up here as the train continues its run through the darkness toward Atlanta.
Photo Date:  8/10/1980  Upload Date: 11/19/2016 2:45:55 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Station,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 3014(SD35) SOU 3307(SD40-2)
Views:  1275   Comments: 1
SOU 5034
Title:  SOU 5034
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/1/1982  Upload Date: 11/26/2010 11:40:30 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Warren Calloway
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 5034(GP38-2)
Views:  1175   Comments: 1
Southern train #222 waiting to depart Greensboro.
Title:  Southern train #222 waiting to depart Greensboro.
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/27/1983  Upload Date: 12/15/2012 12:05:40 PM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 7021(GP50)
Views:  954   Comments: 0
SOU 2372
Title:  SOU 2372
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/6/1983  Upload Date: 1/29/2005 2:06:14 PM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Warren Calloway
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 2372(MP15DC)
Views:  1491   Comments: 1
Extra South
Title:  Extra South
Description:  Heading out of Pomona yard in Greensboro, NS SD40 3719 and Southern SD45 3111 & SD40 3183 with a extra manifest.
Photo Date:  1/19/1985  Upload Date: 10/7/2023 6:44:44 PM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Jerry Pittman
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 3179(SD40)
Views:  642   Comments: 0
Pig Switching
Title:  Pig Switching
Description:  Shuffling TOFC flats at Pomona Yard in Greensboro was Southern MP15DC 2348. Although Norfolk Southern had been around for three years, 2348 had yet to be repainted.
Photo Date:  1/19/1985  Upload Date: 10/7/2023 8:25:04 PM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Jerry Pittman
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 2348(MP15DC)
Views:  603   Comments: 0
Hotshot TOFC
Title:  Hotshot TOFC
Description:  TOFC train 219 gets a roll on through Greensboro, NC in March 1986. Up front is Southern GP50 7035 followed by 7027, 7059, and NS SD50s 6508 and 6513.
Photo Date:  3/30/1986  Upload Date: 10/8/2023 11:49:10 AM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Jerry Pittman
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 7035(GP50)
Views:  473   Comments: 0
The mighty 1218 cooling its heels
Title:  The mighty 1218 cooling its heels
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/18/1989  Upload Date: 2/18/2014 5:34:08 PM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Bob Kise
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Passenger
Locomotives:  NW 1218(NW Type A 2-6-6-4)
Views:  861   Comments: 0
NS 8768
Title:  NS 8768
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/15/1994  Upload Date: 11/7/2011 9:10:43 PM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Kevin Hunt
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8768(C40-9)
Views:  1278   Comments: 0
NS 5242
Title:  NS 5242
Description:  A&Y job rolls up on Pomona yard as 351 prepares to leave for Roanoke via Winston-Salem, while the southend yard job drills the yard.
Photo Date:  4/12/1995  Upload Date: 9/12/2011 12:19:51 PM
Location:  Greensboro, NC
Author:  Kevin Hunt
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  NS 5242(GP38-2) NS 3284(SD40-2) NS 3302(SD40-2)
Views:  1668   Comments: 0


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