A south bound CSX freight pauses at Oakworth yard in Decatur, AL.

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Here is a work train is tied up in Cullman, AL with a GP40 still in Chessie garb.

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A north bound CSX work train carrying welded rail heads towards Athens, AL.

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South bound CSX intermodal train Q127-17 rolls off the bridge crossing the Tennessee River at Decatur, AL.

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A north bound CSX freight, holding the siding in Ardmore, Al, waits for the passage of a south bound intermodal train.

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This stealth gray CSX GP40-2 brings up the rear of a light engine movement at Stevenson, AL. The engines are shown here headed north back onto single track.

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CSX Local M788 from Cullman to Decatur is seen here near Lacon, AL, south of Falkville. This is the site of a future pass track, that my understanding is, will be used to stage pushers to help trains over Sand Mountain between Lacon and Cullman, AL.

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A north bound CSX freight has just entered the double track near downtown Stevenson.

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CSX work train of ballast hoppers, W062-26, meets a southbound train near the north end of Oakworth yard in Decatur. Also included for power on the W062-26 was 9699, Trains Magazine's All American Diesel.

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A north bound CSX freight with no shortage of power accelerates out of Harris siding near Decatur, AL.

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CSX AC6000 633 is in control of a north bound intermodal train as it rolls into the NS interlocking in Decatur, AL.

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On October, 26, 1998, The GOP Victory Express Train rolls out of Athens on a statewide trip supporting Governor Fob James, who was running for re-election. Here the train is seen 10-25-98 in Athens with a clean GP40-2 on the point.

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Late afternoon finds a yard job working in Bridgeport, AL as two trains pass on the double main-line behind!

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A CSX GP40-2, common power in Decatur, AL, idles between duties at CSX's Oakworth yard.

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I caught this shot of one of the new AC6000s on the point of Q125-07 near the south end of CSX's Oakworth yard in Decatur, AL.

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In a late afternoon shot, we find a pair of GE's, with a U23B on the point, working near CSX's Boyles Yard in Birmingham, AL.

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The yard job switches in CSX's Oakworth Yard in Decatur, AL with this ex-Conrail B23-7 in the lead!

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CSX Road Slug 2306, formerly an EMD GP35, rests between duties with it's mother GP40-2 in Decatur, AL.

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CSX took elderly EMD GP35s and GP30s and converted them to Road Slugs, which retained the cab controls so that crews can operate from the slug's cab when paired with a "mother" GP40-2.

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When ex-GP30s were converted to road slugs, most of the long hood access doors were simply plated over as were the exhaust stack opening and the cooling fans. The dynamic brake grids and cooling fan remain though, to provide extra braking.

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The lead truck of CSX GP38 2146 went "on the ground" while morning yard job Y101 worked in Decatur, AL.

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A light engine movement from Bridgeport, AL with just three units, rolls back on to the single track CSX at Stevenson. The lead unit, a GP38, still wears it's Chessie System colors.

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This CSX MP15T, still in Seaboard System paint, is dead in tow along with an SW1500 in a southbound CSX freight at Decatur, AL.

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A pair of CSX MP15Ts rest between assignments in CSX's yard in Montgomery, AL.

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With faded gray paint but a bright coat of yellow on it's nose, CSX MP15T 1210 is dead in tow in the consist of a southbound CSX freight at Decatur, AL.

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