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Great Walton Rail
Title:  Great Walton Rail
Description:  I was fortunate to ride along with the crew on two seperate occasions. This locomotive also had a cameo role in the movie "My Cousin Vinny", which was filmed nearby. It is now preserved in its original Western Maryland paint scheme on the Georges Creek Railway in Maryland.
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/13/2006 8:54:00 PM
Location:  Covington, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  3373   Comments: 0
GRWR 6400
Title:  GRWR 6400
Description:  SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:00 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  681   Comments: 0
GRWR 6400
Title:  GRWR 6400
Description:  SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:03 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  792   Comments: 0
GRWR 6400
Title:  GRWR 6400
Description:  SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen. Judging by the stray truck, it looks like this was also the site of a derailment.
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:07 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  717   Comments: 0
GRWR 6400
Title:  GRWR 6400
Description:  Switching the grain elevator. I still remember the pine tree scent from those chip hoppers!
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:10 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  611   Comments: 0
GRWR 6400
Title:  GRWR 6400
Description:  SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen and switching the grain elevator.
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:18 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  636   Comments: 0
Pulling upgrade from the Alcovy River crossing
Title:  Pulling upgrade from the Alcovy River crossing
Description:  Southbound Great Walton train heading the NS interchange at Machen
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:09:45 PM
Location:  Starrsville, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WM 6400(GP9) GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  607   Comments: 0
It's train time in Mansfield. Today, a shared-use path is in this spot.
Title:  It's train time in Mansfield. Today, a shared-use path is in this spot.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:23 PM
Location:  Mansfield, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WM 6400(GP9) GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  742   Comments: 0
GRWR 6400
Title:  GRWR 6400
Description:  NB Great Walton Rail train heading from the NS interchange with empty chip hoppers for Covington
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:34 PM
Location:  Farrar, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  621   Comments: 0
Site of an earlier derailment
Title:  Site of an earlier derailment
Description:  That derailed hopper body with trucks removed stayed there for an least another 10 years
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:38 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  677   Comments: 0
A quintessential southern shortline image
Title:  A quintessential southern shortline image
Description:  SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:42 PM
Location:  Farrar, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  603   Comments: 0
Arriving at the NS interchange
Title:  Arriving at the NS interchange
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:46 PM
Location:  Machen, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WM 6400(GP9) GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  638   Comments: 0
Great Walton at NS interchange
Title:  Great Walton at NS interchange
Description:  Great Walton Rail train, having picked up the empty woodchip hoppers from NS, is preparing to return north to Covington.
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:49 PM
Location:  Machen, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  586   Comments: 0
Great Walton at NS interchange
Title:  Great Walton at NS interchange
Description:  Prior to 1959, this line, as part of the Central of Georgia Ry, continued south to Eatonton
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:53 PM
Location:  Machen, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  563   Comments: 0
Site of a previous derailment
Title:  Site of a previous derailment
Description:  SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:56 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  654   Comments: 0
Great Walton Rail- I can still smell the pine aroma of those wood chips
Title:  Great Walton Rail- I can still smell the pine aroma of those wood chips
Description:  Brakemen 'Buzz' is guiding chop nosed GP-9 #6400 backwards as it retrieves empty covered hoppers at the feed mill. It is now preserved in its original Western Maryland paint scheme on the Georges Creek Railway in Maryland.
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/13/2006 9:14:48 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WM 6400(GP9) GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  1874   Comments: 0
CRGX 405
Title:  CRGX 405
Description:  This was an ex C&O unit.
Photo Date:  6/26/2021  Upload Date: 6/28/2021 10:19:23 PM
Location:  Gainesville, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRGX 405(GP9)
Views:  485   Comments: 2
Snowstorm
Title:  Snowstorm
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/28/2009  Upload Date: 2/25/2010 9:26:13 PM
Location:  Karns City, PA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BPRR 626(GP9)
Views:  927   Comments: 0
Snowstorm
Title:  Snowstorm
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/28/2009  Upload Date: 2/25/2010 9:27:21 PM
Location:  Karns City, PA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BPRR 626(GP9)
Views:  965   Comments: 0
FEC 660
Title:  FEC 660
Description:  Bowden Yard - I was tempted to drive closer and get a better shot of the engine, but I didn't want to push my luck with the FEC Ry Police.
Photo Date:  2/18/2002  Upload Date: 5/14/2006 5:48:42 PM
Location:  Jacksonville, FL
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories: 
Locomotives:  FEC 660(GP9)
Views:  1233   Comments: 0
Florida East Coast Railway Shops
Title:  Florida East Coast Railway Shops
Description:  Taken from the parking lot of an abandoned steakhose off of US 1
Photo Date:  2/20/2001  Upload Date: 5/14/2006 5:48:40 PM
Location:  New Smyrna Beach, FL
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories: 
Locomotives:  FEC 441(GP40-3) FEC 419(GP40-2) FEC 668(GP9) FEC 451(GP40) FEC 452(GP40)
Views:  2442   Comments: 0
HRT 4556
Title:  HRT 4556
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/21/2011  Upload Date: 3/28/2011 5:22:17 PM
Location:  Lavonia, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 4556(GP9) CNW 4556(GP9R)
Views:  708   Comments: 2
HRT 4556
Title:  HRT 4556
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/21/2011  Upload Date: 3/28/2011 5:22:47 PM
Location:  Lavonia, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 4556(GP9) CNW 4556(GP9R)
Views:  740   Comments: 0
HRT 4556
Title:  HRT 4556
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/21/2011  Upload Date: 3/28/2011 5:23:09 PM
Location:  Lavonia, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 4556(GP9) CNW 4556(GP9R)
Views:  744   Comments: 0
Great Walton Rail
Title:  Great Walton Rail
Description:  This engine is currently stored unservicable at Great Walton's headquarters in Social Circle, GA
Photo Date:  1/1/1990  Upload Date: 4/15/2006 1:05:16 AM
Location:  Covington, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GRWR 6243(GP9)
Views:  1402   Comments: 3
Georgia Northeastern RR
Title:  Georgia Northeastern RR
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/1/1990  Upload Date: 4/15/2006 1:29:47 PM
Location:  Tate, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GNRR 6516(GP9)
Views:  1409   Comments: 1
Athens Line RR
Title:  Athens Line RR
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/1/2003  Upload Date: 5/1/2006 12:23:50 AM
Location:  Athens, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories: 
Locomotives:  HRT 3016(GP30) GRWR 6525(GP9)
Views:  1355   Comments: 1
Georgia Northeastern RR shops
Title:  Georgia Northeastern RR shops
Description:  Besides the Sandersville and the Chattahoochee Industrial, the Georgia Northeastern has its own dedicated locomotive shops
Photo Date:  9/16/2006  Upload Date: 9/16/2006 3:26:16 PM
Location:  Tate, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GNRR 2000(GP38-2) GNRR 6576(GP9)
Views:  1047   Comments: 0
Great Walton Rail
Title:  Great Walton Rail
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/1/1995  Upload Date: 4/25/2006 11:32:03 PM
Location:  Social Circle, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GRWR 6580(GP9)
Views:  1077   Comments: 0


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