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Owner: Seaboard System
Model:EMD GP38ACBuilt As:LN 4044 (GP38AC)
Serial Number:37633Order No:7305
Frame Number:7305-15Built:6/1971
Notes:Built 6/1971 as L&N 4044
Other locos with this serial:  IANR 3803(GP38-2) LN 4044(GP38AC) CSX 2174(GP38AC) SBD 4044(GP38AC) SBD 6265(GP38AC)
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Seaboard System New Orleans (LA) bound train #415 is giving Hamlet (NC) bound train #414 a shove up the hill, out of the siding, and away from downtown as the crew prepares to cut off "on the fly"
Title:  Seaboard System New Orleans (LA) bound train #415 is giving Hamlet (NC) bound train #414 a shove up the hill, out of the siding, and away from downtown as the crew prepares to cut off "on the fly"
Description:  414 could not start its train after stopping in the siding to meet its counterpart, train #415. In a common practice at this location during this era, the "push" is being made against the cab of the eastbound train climbing away from Opelika. The crossing/interlocking with Southern Railway's Columbus-Birmingham "P" line is just to the right of the lead locomotive. The east end of the Opelika siding is just beyond the interlocking
Photo Date:  7/11/1984  Upload Date: 4/8/2012 10:27:41 AM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Bernie Feltman
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SBD 4083(GP38-2) SBD 4128(GP38-2) SBD 4044(GP38AC)
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