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Viewing Album:  Switchers, Slugs & Mates of the CSX
 
By:Ed Hopson
Dates:10/1/1995 - 1/1/2002
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Heavy Traction
Title:  Heavy Traction
Description:  Moving through the Etowah passenger station on a early fall afternoon. Slug # not noted.
Photo Date:  9/30/1995  Upload Date: 4/9/2004 1:11:01 AM
Location:  Etowah, TN
Author:  Fran Cole
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 6458(GP40-2)
Views:  754   Comments: 0
About Ugly
Title:  About Ugly
Description:  Paint me- something else! And they did!
Photo Date:  10/1/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 1:39:50 PM
Location:  Knoxville, TN
Author:  Unknown
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1114(SW1500)
Views:  1246   Comments: 6
Mid-consist Assist
Title:  Mid-consist Assist
Description:  I'm with 6495 there...
Photo Date:  10/1/1995  Upload Date: 4/9/2004 3:09:27 PM
Location:  Wauhatchie, TN
Author:  Unknown
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 2281(Road Slug) CSX 6495(GP40-2)
Views:  903   Comments: 0
Grey Ghost SW
Title:  Grey Ghost SW
Description:  Faded and due for a refit, this one shuttled west to Cowan and back in helper duty.
Photo Date:  10/19/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 1:34:08 PM
Location:  Wauhatchie, TN
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1118(SW1500)
Views:  896   Comments: 0
Grey Ghost SW Continued
Title:  Grey Ghost SW Continued
Description:  With nothing wider than a 50mm lens, getting thse shots was problematic.
Photo Date:  10/19/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 1:34:08 PM
Location:  Wauhatchie, TN
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1118(SW1500)
Views:  727   Comments: 0
On the Old Reliable
Title:  On the Old Reliable
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1996  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 12:18:26 PM
Location:  Nashville, TN
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CSX 1017(Yard Slug)
Views:  1135   Comments: 0
Sawdust and Rain
Title:  Sawdust and Rain
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1996  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 12:18:26 PM
Location:  Nashville, TN
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1017(Yard Slug)
Views:  830   Comments: 0
Low-Slung and Lowly
Title:  Low-Slung and Lowly
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1996  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 12:18:26 PM
Location:  Nashville, TN
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1017(Yard Slug)
Views:  784   Comments: 0
Out of Focus, But...
Title:  Out of Focus, But...
Description:  The only shot I got. The branch in front tripped the auto focus. Know your equipment & its limitations.
Photo Date:  6/1/1996  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 12:18:26 PM
Location:  Nashville, TN
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1040(Yard Slug)
Views:  836   Comments: 0
Married or Otherwise Engaged
Title:  Married or Otherwise Engaged
Description:  1100 & 1112 were seen all around downtown together that week.
Photo Date:  6/1/1996  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 12:18:26 PM
Location:  Nashville, TN
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1100(SW1500) CSX 1112(SW1500)
Views:  1198   Comments: 0
Cab-In-Front
Title:  Cab-In-Front
Description:  At Nashville they liked to pair these nose to nose; in contrast at New Orleans, they run them nose to tail.
Photo Date:  6/1/1996  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 12:18:26 PM
Location:  Nashville, TN
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1100(SW1500)
Views:  772   Comments: 0
The Plainer One
Title:  The Plainer One
Description:  1100 had a pretty but typical paint job, but 1112 had extras- more yellow trim, more decals.
Photo Date:  6/1/1996  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 12:18:26 PM
Location:  Nashville, TN
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1100(SW1500)
Views:  810   Comments: 0
No Mud on Her Shoes
Title:  No Mud on Her Shoes
Description:  Awfully clean for spotting cars for downtown industry.
Photo Date:  6/1/1996  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 12:18:26 PM
Location:  Nashville, TN
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1112(SW1500)
Views:  679   Comments: 0
Little Jewel
Title:  Little Jewel
Description:  Extra trim and all brightens this little engine on a rainy day in Nashville.
Photo Date:  6/1/1996  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 1:10:24 PM
Location:  Nashville, TN
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1112(SW1500)
Views:  652   Comments: 0
Pretty Flashy Backdrop
Title:  Pretty Flashy Backdrop
Description:  The fancy cars in back were for the Tenn. Bicentennial that week. [That sorry roof behind is the crumbling L&N pass. sta. trainshed.]
Photo Date:  6/1/1996  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 12:18:26 PM
Location:  Nashville, TN
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1100(SW1500) CSX 1112(SW1500)
Views:  1011   Comments: 0
Workin' in Denim Blue
Title:  Workin' in Denim Blue
Description:  In the south throat of the big yard in Nashville.
Photo Date:  6/1/1996  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 12:18:26 PM
Location:  Nashville, TN
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1017(Yard Slug) CSX 2501(GP38-2)
Views:  1380   Comments: 1
Yard Bird in the Rain
Title:  Yard Bird in the Rain
Description:  This GP39 [not a dash 2] provided the prime mover for yard slug 1040 in another picture.
Photo Date:  6/1/1996  Upload Date: 4/9/2004 12:21:07 PM
Location:  Nashville, TN
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 4294(GP39)
Views:  931   Comments: 0
Marginally Better View
Title:  Marginally Better View
Description:  Nashville's married pair were back behind the fence next day, but at least the light was better.
Photo Date:  6/2/1996  Upload Date: 4/15/2004 6:27:32 PM
Location:  Nashville, TN
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1100(SW1500) CSX 1112(SW1500)
Views:  977   Comments: 0
Like Old Times
Title:  Like Old Times
Description:  Road slug 2324 [paired with GP40-2 6472]is in full command as she whips into town. The rear of the train is still out on the bay bridge.
Photo Date:  12/23/1996  Upload Date: 4/9/2004 1:08:38 AM
Location:  Ocean Springs, MS
Author:  Jonathan Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 2324(Road Slug)
Views:  703   Comments: 1
Fine Portrait
Title:  Fine Portrait
Description:  Plying the switchin' trade down on the Gulf coast.
Photo Date:  5/26/1997  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 12:18:26 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1113(SW1500)
Views:  705   Comments: 0
Don't Go To Sleep On Me Now
Title:  Don't Go To Sleep On Me Now
Description:  The operator appears a bit tired of the work as 1113 goes about CSX' business.
Photo Date:  5/26/1997  Upload Date: 4/12/2004 1:33:32 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1113(SW1500)
Views:  810   Comments: 0
As If On Display
Title:  As If On Display
Description:  This unit was idle and in the clear- so I took pictures all around.
Photo Date:  5/26/1997  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 4:58:28 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1145(MP15DC)
Views:  752   Comments: 1
Well Situated
Title:  Well Situated
Description:  Another angle...
Photo Date:  5/26/1997  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 5:45:50 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1145(MP15DC)
Views:  720   Comments: 0
Door Wide Open
Title:  Door Wide Open
Description:  The opposite of mine.
Photo Date:  5/26/1997  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 1:17:30 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1145(MP15DC)
Views:  744   Comments: 0
Shutters Wide Open
Title:  Shutters Wide Open
Description:  The opposite of mine...
Photo Date:  5/26/1997  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 5:50:13 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1145(MP15DC)
Views:  775   Comments: 0
Shady Side Of A Big Switcher
Title:  Shady Side Of A Big Switcher
Description:  That paint job does nothing for appearance- laid out by a mechanicinstead of an artist.
Photo Date:  5/26/1997  Upload Date: 4/12/2004 11:15:00 AM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1160(MP15AC)
Views:  2527   Comments: 0
Big Switcher In Plain Clothes
Title:  Big Switcher In Plain Clothes
Description:  The blue & yellow angled across the cab is jazzy if not artistic. Maybe that's why the new Blue & gold just doesn't quite satisfy.
Photo Date:  5/26/1997  Upload Date: 4/12/2004 11:15:00 AM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1160(MP15AC)
Views:  2821   Comments: 0
Open For Business
Title:  Open For Business
Description:  Cab detail...
Photo Date:  5/26/1997  Upload Date: 4/12/2004 11:15:00 AM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1160(MP15AC)
Views:  676   Comments: 0
Late in the Life
Title:  Late in the Life
Description:  A GP38 [not a dash 2] numbered between yard switchers and road slugs was assigned to the work once given to geep-7's and-9's.
Photo Date:  5/26/1997  Upload Date: 4/9/2004 12:15:42 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 2145(GP38)
Views:  596   Comments: 0
Late in the Life II
Title:  Late in the Life II
Description:  From the other side...
Photo Date:  5/26/1997  Upload Date: 4/9/2004 12:16:48 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 2145(GP38)
Views:  439   Comments: 0
Late in the Life III
Title:  Late in the Life III
Description:  Cab detail of a switcher model GP38.
Photo Date:  5/26/1997  Upload Date: 4/9/2004 12:18:13 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 2145(GP38)
Views:  437   Comments: 0
Vain One
Title:  Vain One
Description:  1105 seemed to like getting her picture took; she kept coming back for more.
Photo Date:  6/7/1997  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 12:18:26 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1105(SW1500)
Views:  555   Comments: 0
She Likes It
Title:  She Likes It
Description:  Basking in the yards under the camera's eye.
Photo Date:  6/7/1997  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 1:14:18 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1105(SW1500)
Views:  546   Comments: 0
I Am Curious Yellow
Title:  I Am Curious Yellow
Description:  1149 in Mobile was like 1105 in New Orleans, always wanting a picture taken. She even turned up beside me on the highway homeward- in Mississippi!
Photo Date:  8/2/1997  Upload Date: 4/12/2004 12:45:30 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1149(MP15DC)
Views:  801   Comments: 1
I Am Curious Blue
Title:  I Am Curious Blue
Description:  Parading up and down; strutting, you might say.
Photo Date:  8/2/1997  Upload Date: 4/12/2004 12:45:30 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1149(MP15DC)
Views:  724   Comments: 0
I Am Following You Home
Title:  I Am Following You Home
Description:  Here she's right alongside me somewhere along US 90 near Ocean Springs late that evening. What's really cool was, it was my birthday.
Photo Date:  8/2/1997  Upload Date: 4/12/2004 1:01:24 PM
Location:  Biloxi, MS
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1149(MP15DC)
Views:  770   Comments: 0
Sports Model
Title:  Sports Model
Description:  Yeah! It's turbocharged!
Photo Date:  9/1/1997  Upload Date: 4/12/2004 11:15:00 AM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1223(MP15T)
Views:  2609   Comments: 1
Sports Model II
Title:  Sports Model II
Description:  The cross-wise exhaust stack is the simplest sign of a turbocharged diesel.
Photo Date:  9/1/1997  Upload Date: 4/12/2004 11:15:00 AM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1223(MP15T)
Views:  2684   Comments: 0
Dissimilar Pair
Title:  Dissimilar Pair
Description:  1183 really put on a show, rapidly shunting cars like a card shark shuffles his deck.
Photo Date:  9/2/1997  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 6:03:02 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1223(MP15T) CSX 1183(MP15AC)
Views:  810   Comments: 0
Number 1183 Tested Me
Title:  Number 1183 Tested Me
Description:  The rapid moves stressed my autofocus and zoom capabilities as she raced up & down.
Photo Date:  9/2/1997  Upload Date: 4/12/2004 11:15:00 AM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1183(MP15AC)
Views:  540   Comments: 1
Number 1183 The Other Way
Title:  Number 1183 The Other Way
Description:  Maybe they had a deadline, or maybe that's the yard foreman in the doorway, telling them to give the guy with the camera a workout.
Photo Date:  9/2/1997  Upload Date: 4/12/2004 11:15:00 AM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1183(MP15AC)
Views:  549   Comments: 1
Number 1183 By The Tower
Title:  Number 1183 By The Tower
Description:  When I grabbed this, I though it was a hail mary shot, but it came out. The angles and the composition work for me, anyway.
Photo Date:  9/2/1997  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 6:06:47 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1183(MP15AC)
Views:  585   Comments: 2
Shy One
Title:  Shy One
Description:  On the other hand, 1110 hid under an overpass, & would not come out in the bright light for me.
Photo Date:  12/28/1997  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 2:41:13 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1110(SW1500)
Views:  638   Comments: 0
Still Shy
Title:  Still Shy
Description:  The light was going when I found her again.
Photo Date:  12/28/1997  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 12:18:26 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1110(SW1500)
Views:  468   Comments: 0
Additive Power
Title:  Additive Power
Description:  I'm with 6450 there...
Photo Date:  3/16/1998  Upload Date: 4/9/2004 3:01:20 PM
Location:  Pensacola, FL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 2245(Road Slug) CSX 6450(GP40-2)
Views:  893   Comments: 2
Run Zero
Title:  Run Zero
Description:  I'm with 6920 there... and hey, can't we get on with things?
Photo Date:  3/16/1998  Upload Date: 4/9/2004 3:10:58 PM
Location:  Bay Minette, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 2285(Road Slug) CSX 6920(GP40-2)
Views:  870   Comments: 0
No Prime Mover
Title:  No Prime Mover
Description:  I'm with 6486 there...
Photo Date:  3/16/1998  Upload Date: 4/9/2004 3:12:53 PM
Location:  Pensacola, FL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 6486(GP40-2) CSX 2299(Road Slug)
Views:  778   Comments: 1
High And Wide
Title:  High And Wide
Description:  Short special-clearance freight awaits a crew.
Photo Date:  3/16/1998  Upload Date: 4/9/2004 4:26:54 PM
Location:  Pensacola, FL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 6450(GP40-2) CSX 2245(Road Slug)
Views:  821   Comments: 1
Local Stars
Title:  Local Stars
Description:  Mother and slug, one pair of a large number serving in the panhandle, wait for the call.
Photo Date:  3/16/1998  Upload Date: 4/9/2004 4:25:40 PM
Location:  Pensacola, FL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 6486(GP40-2) CSX 2299(Road Slug)
Views:  721   Comments: 1
Lowly Chores
Title:  Lowly Chores
Description:  At this time Pensacola, Fl. was a center for road slug operations.
Photo Date:  3/16/1998  Upload Date: 4/9/2004 1:29:08 AM
Location:  Bay Minette, AL
Author:  Ed Hopson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 6920(GP40-2) CSX 2285(Road Slug)
Views:  844   Comments: 0

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