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Owner: Seaboard System
Model:EMD GP38-2Built As:LN 4083 (GP38-2)
Serial Number:72704-14Order No:72704
Frame Number:72704-14Built:9/1972
Notes:ex-LN
Other locos with this serial:  UP 484(GP38-2) HLLX 2593(GP38-2) HLCX 3864(GP38-2) SBD 4083(GP38-2)
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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 dotntown 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 dotntown 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 `gainst 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 O elika 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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