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Viewing Album: NS"ex CofGA Greenville Branch Pictures
By:
Hank Stephens
Dates:
6/6/2003 - 6/6/2003
Album Info:
The former CofGa line from Newnan (Raymon—(, GA to Columbus, GA was once the stomping grounds of the famed Central of Georgia Man O' War - an intrastate train operating between Atlanta (Terminal Station) and Columbus. When CofGA and Southern merged, these lesser known passenger trains slowly disappeared and many of their routes like theGreenville line became a truncated branch by the late 70s-early 80s. A Georgia Pacific plywood plant at Durand, GA, quarries at Fortson, GA and a Mead sawmill at Greenville were the main industries by this time, with a little pulpwood to boot. By the 90s, the line was down to G-P, Mead and a single woodyard at the end of the line north of Greenville called Allie. The line was switched by a turn out of Columbus Yard in Columbus, GA and these photos document a typical movement over the line in its last few years of operation. Georgia Southwestern RR (GSWR) tried to make a go of the line for a couple of years but it finally succombed to abandonment in the first decade of the 2000s. It was typical of the backwoods pulp and timber branches that once criss-crossed the south, but whose time eventually ran out due to consolidated operations, the end of stick length pulpwood and a grab by CSX for most of the G-P mill traffic
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NS ex CofGA Greenville Local pulls a GPSX Greenville type woodchip car from Georgia Pacific. These cars mixed with Southern and NS painted version on the trains in cuts of over a dozen at the time.
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Photo Date:
6/6/2003
Upload Date:
6/27/2010 10:22:49 PM
Location:
Durand, GA
Author:
Hank Stephens
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RollingStock
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NS ex CofGA Greenville Local gets its cars together for its run up the branch on a different day. By this time, GE "catfish" were typical of the branch that only allowed four axle units thorugh the 1980s and early 1990s.
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Photo Date:
6/6/2003
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6/27/2010 10:22:54 PM
Location:
Durand, GA
Author:
Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:
NS 9243(C40-9W)
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NS ex CofGA Greenville Local works the G-P mill at Durand and moves north the work Mead at Greenville, GA where the train would turn back south to Columbus, GA.
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Photo Date:
6/6/2003
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6/27/2010 10:22:57 PM
Location:
Durand, GA
Author:
Hank Stephens
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RollingStock
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NS ex CofGA Greenville Local works the G-P mill at Durand and moves north the work Mead at Greenville, GA where the train would turn back south to Columbus, GA.
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Photo Date:
6/6/2003
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6/27/2010 10:22:56 PM
Location:
Durand, GA
Author:
Hank Stephens
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NS ex CofGA Greenville Local works the G-P mill at Durand and moves north the work Mead at Greenville, GA where the train would turn back south to Columbus, GA.
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Photo Date:
6/6/2003
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6/27/2010 10:22:55 PM
Location:
Durand, GA
Author:
Hank Stephens
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NS ex CofGA Greenville Local works the G-P mill at Durand and moves north the work Mead at Greenville, GA where the train would turn back south to Columbus, GA.
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Photo Date:
6/6/2003
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6/27/2010 10:22:58 PM
Location:
Durand, GA
Author:
Hank Stephens
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A typical Southern Railway whistle post near Durand looks on as the Greenville Local switches chip cars at Durand
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Photo Date:
6/6/2003
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6/27/2010 10:22:59 PM
Location:
Durand, GA
Author:
Hank Stephens
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358
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NS ex CofGA Greenville Local runs with two modern GE units in traditional Southern tradition of long hood forward operation on the Greenville Branch.
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Photo Date:
6/6/2003
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6/27/2010 10:23:01 PM
Location:
Durand, GA
Author:
Hank Stephens
Categories:
Locomotives:
NS 9195(C40-9W)
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Title:
NS ex CofGA Greenville Local works the G-P mill at Durand and moves north the work Mead at Greenville, GA where the train would turn back south to Columbus, GA.
Description:
Photo Date:
6/6/2003
Upload Date:
6/27/2010 10:23:01 PM
Location:
Durand, GA
Author:
Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:
NS 8673(C39-8E)
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