RailPictures.Net Photo: SCL 1509 Seaboard Coast Line EMD GP40 at Opelika, Alabama by David Harris

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» Seaboard Coast Line (more..)
» EMD GP40 (more..)

» Southern crossing
» Opelika, Alabama, USA (more..)
» August, 1973

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» WofA 216 (more..)

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Early in the Family Lines era a pair of SCL Hamlet-NOLA run-through trains were established utilizing the Western Railway of Alabama between Atlanta and Montgomery. In the photo, 216 - with the usual GP40 quartet - has stalled on the Southern crossing at Opelika. When the trains were first added to the WofA timetable (alongwith L&N run-throughs 213/214), they often seemed to be run as extras on existing WofA schedules, as in this photo.

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