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3/28/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Don Oltmann
Dates:12/26/2006 - 3/7/2007
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Back in the saddle again
Title:  Back in the saddle again
Description:  Four ex-CR GP40-2s back doing the job they were purchased to do, easily handle Croxton-bound train. This was one of the test trains routed via Amtrak's NEC
Photo Date:  10/1/2003  Upload Date: 2/11/2005 1:08:25 PM
Location:  Buford, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  NS 3031(GP40-2)
Views:  989   Comments: 2
NS train 214 with two ex-Cons
Title:  NS train 214 with two ex-Cons
Description:  A matched pair of ex-Conrail C40-8Ws handle 214 over the Piedmont
Photo Date:  10/1/2003  Upload Date: 2/11/2005 1:07:16 PM
Location:  Buford, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  NS 8448(C40-8W)
Views:  951   Comments: 1
BNSF on CSX
Title:  BNSF on CSX
Description:  BNSF C44-9W leads westbound CSX freight on Abbeville subdivision
Photo Date:  12/27/2004  Upload Date: 2/12/2005 9:06:35 AM
Location:  Auburn, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4818(C44-9W)
Views:  644   Comments: 0
Railroad Gulch
Title:  Railroad Gulch
Description:  NS local, CSX geometry train and southbound warbonnet make their way through the Gulch
Photo Date:  1/7/2005  Upload Date: 2/11/2005 1:28:35 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  NS 3550(B32-8)
Views:  643   Comments: 0
Crewless
Title:  Crewless
Description:  A remarkable clean lone AC4400AC waits in the siding without a crew
Photo Date:  1/29/2005  Upload Date: 3/2/2005 8:38:28 AM
Location:  Gloster, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  CSX 410(AC44CW)
Views:  723   Comments: 1
Abbeville Sub Ballast Train
Title:  Abbeville Sub Ballast Train
Description:  A couple of ex-cons dumping ballast on a rainy Sunday afternoon
Photo Date:  1/30/2005  Upload Date: 3/2/2005 8:38:28 AM
Location:  Gloster, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  CSX 7129(C30-7)
Views:  506   Comments: 1
Slugging it out
Title:  Slugging it out
Description:  Road slug and mother get a boost from an NS C40-9W eastbound on the Abbeville sub
Photo Date:  2/10/2005  Upload Date: 2/15/2005 5:54:12 AM
Location:  Gloster, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  CSX 2316(Road Slug)
Views:  596   Comments: 1
Westbound CSX stack train
Title:  Westbound CSX stack train
Description:  having just passed under the parking deck at CNN and past the old Union and Terminal station sites, a battered GP38 waits for the signal at Spring as a nothbound NS train passes
Photo Date:  2/17/2005  Upload Date: 2/22/2005 6:03:35 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  CSX 2524(GP38-2)
Views:  1070   Comments: 0
Spring tower and the lead to Terminal Station
Title:  Spring tower and the lead to Terminal Station
Description:  This is all that's left of the Terminal Station complex. CSX stack train off the Georgia Road wait for signal.
Photo Date:  2/17/2005  Upload Date: 2/22/2005 6:03:35 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  450   Comments: 1
Office car tracks behind NS's 99 Spring St building
Title:  Office car tracks behind NS's 99 Spring St building
Description:  This platform served the Central of Georgia passenger trains in their last years before Amtrak.
Photo Date:  2/18/2005  Upload Date: 2/22/2005 6:03:35 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  429   Comments: 1
CSX train 661 westbound
Title:  CSX train 661 westbound
Description:  past ties set out for trackwork on Abbeville sub
Photo Date:  2/19/2005  Upload Date: 2/22/2005 6:03:35 PM
Location:  Gloster, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  UP 9507(C41-8W)
Views:  443   Comments: 1
CSX train with UP leader head "underground"
Title:  CSX train with UP leader head "underground"
Description:  While NS autorack train sits waits for a fresh crew on the NS main, CSX freight head toward the east and Underground Atlanta
Photo Date:  3/3/2005  Upload Date: 3/7/2005 9:30:57 AM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  CSX 7491(C40-8) UP 3838(SD70M)
Views:  1157   Comments: 0
Waiting at Spring
Title:  Waiting at Spring
Description:  NS 8929 with two BNSF units and a long string of box cars, waits for signal by old Spring tower. NS office provide backdrop
Photo Date:  3/3/2005  Upload Date: 3/7/2005 9:30:57 AM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  NS 8929(C40-9W)
Views:  690   Comments: 0
Remote pusher
Title:  Remote pusher
Description:  Remote pusher disappears with train under World Conrgress Center on the way back to Wyoming for some more coal
Photo Date:  3/3/2005  Upload Date: 3/9/2005 1:43:23 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5675(AC44CW)
Views:  475   Comments: 0
Action at Spring
Title:  Action at Spring
Description:  While the crew of GZ03 stands by their SD9 and watches, an NS train proceeds south and a CSX stack train proceeds east. NS 99 and 125 Spring St offices in background
Photo Date:  3/3/2005  Upload Date: 3/9/2005 1:43:23 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  NS 55(SD9m)
Views:  1683   Comments: 2
CSX diverges for the east while NS waits for crew
Title:  CSX diverges for the east while NS waits for crew
Description:  NS autorack train 284 is tied down on the main awaiting a recrew while a CSX freight head for points east
Photo Date:  3/3/2005  Upload Date: 3/9/2005 1:43:23 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  NS 9480(C40-9W)
Views:  667   Comments: 0
CEFX 3127
Title:  CEFX 3127
Description:  The signs says "dead end" but this isn't the end of the line for this former SD45, which has a new lease (pun intended) on life as an SD40-2
Photo Date:  3/5/2005  Upload Date: 3/9/2005 1:43:23 PM
Location:  Gloster, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  CEFX 3127(SD40M-2)
Views:  766   Comments: 0
CSX train sits
Title:  CSX train sits
Description:  Rebuilt SD45 sits on the head end of a CSX freight on a sunny Sunday afternoon, waiting for a recrew
Photo Date:  3/7/2005  Upload Date: 3/7/2005 9:30:57 AM
Location:  Gloster, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CEFX 3127(SD40M-2)
Views:  872   Comments: 1
Roadrailer train at Spring
Title:  Roadrailer train at Spring
Description:  RR245 snakes it's way through Spring
Photo Date:  3/8/2005  Upload Date: 3/24/2005 10:44:33 AM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  NS 8995(C40-9W)
Views:  739   Comments: 1
Southbound Coal
Title:  Southbound Coal
Description:  Coal train emerges from under World Congress Center
Photo Date:  3/11/2005  Upload Date: 3/16/2005 9:57:59 AM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  CSX 82(AC44CW)
Views:  828   Comments: 0
RoadRailer waits for signal
Title:  RoadRailer waits for signal
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/11/2005  Upload Date: 3/16/2005 9:57:59 AM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  290   Comments: 0
NS 9666
Title:  NS 9666
Description:  Southbound to Jacksonville
Photo Date:  3/14/2005  Upload Date: 3/19/2005 4:57:40 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  NS 9666(C40-9W)
Views:  574   Comments: 0
Swapping power
Title:  Swapping power
Description:  An eastbound and westbound train swap power at Gloster on the Abbeville subdivision. Typical strange mixture of power on CSX. Only on "true" CSX unit in the bunch!
Photo Date:  3/19/2005  Upload Date: 3/21/2005 1:33:40 PM
Location:  Gloster, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 7824(C40-8W) UP 2200(SD60)
Views:  738   Comments: 1
B40-8 busted to private
Title:  B40-8 busted to private
Description:  Once a mainstay of Conrail's four axle intemodal fleet, this B40-8 has been busted down to yard job service. Still in it's original paint from 1988, 4802 leads train GZ02
Photo Date:  3/23/2005  Upload Date: 3/24/2005 10:44:33 AM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  NS 4802(B40-8)
Views:  623   Comments: 0
16R approaches Spring
Title:  16R approaches Spring
Description:  16R heads for Chattanooga
Photo Date:  3/23/2005  Upload Date: 3/24/2005 10:44:33 AM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  NS 6705(SD60)
Views:  539   Comments: 0
Pacer Stack train at Gloster
Title:  Pacer Stack train at Gloster
Description:  Nearly solid train of Pacer stacks southbound on Abbeville Sub
Photo Date:  3/24/2005  Upload Date: 12/22/2005 10:25:06 AM
Location:  Gloster, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  HLCX 7228(SD40-2)
Views:  453   Comments: 0
Taking the clear
Title:  Taking the clear
Description:  CSX westbound freight with "something old, something new. something borrowed and something blue" rolls by clear signal at the south end of Gloster siding
Photo Date:  3/25/2005  Upload Date: 3/30/2005 7:29:41 AM
Location:  Gloster, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  268   Comments: 0
Next stop, Atlanta
Title:  Next stop, Atlanta
Description:  Amtrak's Crescent rolls into Buford on time
Photo Date:  3/25/2005  Upload Date: 3/30/2005 7:29:42 AM
Location:  Buford, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  AMTK 55(P42DC)
Views:  654   Comments: 0
The Crescent, right on time
Title:  The Crescent, right on time
Description:  The southbound Crescent rolls into Buford Georgia, right on time on Good Friday 2005
Photo Date:  3/25/2005  Upload Date: 3/28/2005 1:04:04 PM
Location:  Buford, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  AMTK 55(P42DC)
Views:  1102   Comments: 0
Headed East
Title:  Headed East
Description:  Palindromic SD70MAC heads east on the Abbeville sub, east end of Gloster siding
Photo Date:  4/23/2005  Upload Date: 4/28/2005 11:30:10 AM
Location:  Gloster, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  CSX 767(SD70MAC)
Views:  497   Comments: 1
175 passes Spring
Title:  175 passes Spring
Description:  Train 175 on the last leg of it's Chicago to Macon journey
Photo Date:  5/16/2005  Upload Date: 5/23/2005 2:23:45 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  NS 8878(C40-9)
Views:  613   Comments: 0
Taking the clear signal
Title:  Taking the clear signal
Description:  CSXT 8606 takes clear signal at west end of Gloster siding
Photo Date:  5/17/2005  Upload Date: 5/26/2005 11:05:54 AM
Location:  Gloster, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 8606(SD50)
Views:  431   Comments: 1
Shiny new leasers
Title:  Shiny new leasers
Description:  A pair of shiny GATX GP38-2s team up with a Dash 9 to move train GE03 through the gulch
Photo Date:  5/17/2005  Upload Date: 5/24/2005 1:40:46 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  GMTX 2613(GP38-2)
Views:  3618   Comments: 22
Auto parts and multilevels
Title:  Auto parts and multilevels
Description:  NS train I83 south on Southern Main
Photo Date:  5/17/2005  Upload Date: 5/26/2005 11:05:53 AM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  NS 9581(C40-9W)
Views:  458   Comments: 0
Switchers trundling by
Title:  Switchers trundling by
Description:  A pair of MP15s pass NS Altanta offices headed south for Eastpoint on the old Central of GA main
Photo Date:  5/25/2005  Upload Date: 5/26/2005 11:05:54 AM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 2429(MP15DC) NS 2412(MP15DC)
Views:  627   Comments: 2
Crescent at Brookwood
Title:  Crescent at Brookwood
Description:  Amtrak 19 pauses at Brookwood Station amid what passes for fall foliage in the south
Photo Date:  11/1/2005  Upload Date: 12/22/2005 10:28:38 AM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  242   Comments: 2
Pre-dawn at Gainesville
Title:  Pre-dawn at Gainesville
Description:  Power lined up for the workday
Photo Date:  2/14/2006  Upload Date: 3/7/2007 1:54:20 PM
Location:  Gainesville, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 3262(SD40-2) NS 3283(SD40-2) NS 6121(SD40-2) NS 5083(GP38-2)
Views:  764   Comments: 0
Idling at Gainesville
Title:  Idling at Gainesville
Description:  A pair of SD40-2s await their next assignment
Photo Date:  2/14/2006  Upload Date: 3/7/2007 1:54:19 PM
Location:  Gainesville, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  NS 3416(SD40-2)
Views:  398   Comments: 0
"Swoosh" in Georgia
Title:  "Swoosh" in Georgia
Description:  Fairly new GEVO on CSX near Atlanta
Photo Date:  4/23/2006  Upload Date: 4/24/2006 3:15:17 PM
Location:  Gloster, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 5868(ES44AC)
Views:  380   Comments: 0
1000 HP/car
Title:  1000 HP/car
Description:  ex-Chessie SD50 leads shorty sand train eastbound
Photo Date:  12/26/2006  Upload Date: 3/7/2007 1:54:23 PM
Location:  Gloster, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 8553(SD50)
Views:  357   Comments: 1
Stacks pass local
Title:  Stacks pass local
Description:  A pair of AC6000s move stack train eastbound past local at Winder GA
Photo Date:  12/26/2006  Upload Date: 1/24/2007 7:11:12 AM
Location:  Winder, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  CSX 639(AC60CW)
Views:  333   Comments: 1
Local at Winder GA
Title:  Local at Winder GA
Description:  Working local industry east of Winder on the day after Christmas
Photo Date:  12/26/2006  Upload Date: 1/24/2007 7:11:11 AM
Location:  Winder, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  CSX 8887(SD40-2)
Views:  527   Comments: 1
Gainesville Midland decapod
Title:  Gainesville Midland decapod
Description:  On display with fresh coat of paint at Winder
Photo Date:  12/26/2006  Upload Date: 1/24/2007 7:11:13 AM
Location:  Gloster, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
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Locomotives:  GM 208(2-10-0)
Views:  473   Comments: 4
Attempted running meet
Title:  Attempted running meet
Description:  Train in the siding gets a rolling start while waiting for a meet at Gloster
Photo Date:  12/27/2006  Upload Date: 1/24/2007 7:11:08 AM
Location:  Gloster, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 8369(SD40-2)
Views:  375   Comments: 1
UP power on Multilevels
Title:  UP power on Multilevels
Description:  A pair of UP SD70s move autoracks east on Abbeville Sub MP 549
Photo Date:  12/27/2006  Upload Date: 1/24/2007 7:11:09 AM
Location:  Gloster, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 4557(SD70M)
Views:  520   Comments: 0
Local at Patterson Road
Title:  Local at Patterson Road
Description:  Local takes the main at North Gloster approaching Patterson Road crossing
Photo Date:  12/27/2006  Upload Date: 1/24/2007 7:11:10 AM
Location:  Lawrenceville (Patterson Rd.), GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 8369(SD40-2)
Views:  516   Comments: 1
Empty coal passes local
Title:  Empty coal passes local
Description:  The local waits in the hole at Gloster as AC powered empty coal train holds the main
Photo Date:  12/27/2006  Upload Date: 1/24/2007 7:11:09 AM
Location:  Gloster, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 784(SD70MAC)
Views:  499   Comments: 2
Local takes the main
Title:  Local takes the main
Description:  Local head out onto the main after meet at Gloster
Photo Date:  12/27/2006  Upload Date: 1/24/2007 7:11:10 AM
Location:  Gloster, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 8080(SD40-2)
Views:  414   Comments: 1
Afternoon eastbound
Title:  Afternoon eastbound
Description:  holds main at North Gloster
Photo Date:  2/14/2007  Upload Date: 3/7/2007 1:54:24 PM
Location:  Gloster, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 7757(C40-8W)
Views:  320   Comments: 1
GEVO waits
Title:  GEVO waits
Description:  on eastbound
Photo Date:  3/4/2007  Upload Date: 3/7/2007 1:54:20 PM
Location:  Gloster, GA
Author:  Don Oltmann
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 5362(ES44DC)
Views:  274   Comments: 1


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