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Viewing Album:  Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia (KMMG) comes to West Point, GA
 
By:Hank Stephens
Dates:1/1/2009 - 6/10/2009
Album Info:In 2006, West Point, GA was picked as the site for the new Kia Assembly plant to be built between I-85 and the CSX AWP-WofA tracks north of town. This album documents the process from the railroad perspective, and also notes a Kia supplier recieving several high wide loads including a Komatsu stamping press mill shipped on CSX from ocean-going vessel at the Port of Mobile, Alabama to the West Point, Georgia area in 2009.
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A clear shot of the load and cranes at the West Point woodyard spur
Title:  A clear shot of the load and cranes at the West Point woodyard spur
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Photo Date:  1/1/2009  Upload Date: 1/20/2009 11:21:45 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Alook at the West Point woodyard. This was a short wood pulpwood operation until recent years, when the operation began loading short logs on skeleton log rack cars. High wide loads on a short A746 local sit near the woodyard switch in West Point siding
Title:  Alook at the West Point woodyard. This was a short wood pulpwood operation until recent years, when the operation began loading short logs on skeleton log rack cars. High wide loads on a short A746 local sit near the woodyard switch in West Point siding
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Photo Date:  1/1/2009  Upload Date: 1/20/2009 11:22:09 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Loading day at the woodyard
Title:  Loading day at the woodyard
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Photo Date:  1/1/2009  Upload Date: 1/21/2009 10:42:43 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Looking southward into the woodyard at the vehicles huddled around the cranes
Title:  Looking southward into the woodyard at the vehicles huddled around the cranes
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Photo Date:  1/1/2009  Upload Date: 1/21/2009 10:43:06 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  128   Comments: 0
Third of three of the second delivery tails out the special movement. This is a steel press used to stamp out large car parts
Title:  Third of three of the second delivery tails out the special movement. This is a steel press used to stamp out large car parts
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Photo Date:  3/12/2009  Upload Date: 3/12/2009 11:43:37 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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View of first of three loads on the second delivery as it moves down sidingA
Title:  View of first of three loads on the second delivery as it moves down sidingA
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Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 3/12/2009 11:41:29 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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CSX 4800 leads the A746 train as it eases down the siding to drop second set of loads
Title:  CSX 4800 leads the A746 train as it eases down the siding to drop second set of loads
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 3/12/2009 11:41:04 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  CSX 4800(SD70MAC)
Views:  133   Comments: 1
Second of three loads on the skcond delivery of machinery for a Kia Assembly supplier
Title:  Second of three loads on the skcond delivery of machinery for a Kia Assembly supplier
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Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 3/12/2009 11:43:10 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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A746 passes siding signal as brakeman prepares to dismount and routh the train into the siding--high wide loads are behind the two locomotives
Title:  A746 passes siding signal as brakeman prepares to dismount and routh the train into the siding--high wide loads are behind the two locomotives
Description:  A746 enters West Point siding as it prepares to drop the second Kia supplier press in the second of two.high wide shipments
Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 3/12/2009 11:40:05 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  Action
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Views:  88   Comments: 1
First of two views as the train rolls down the siding to run around its train and deliver the high wides to the woodyard unloading site
Title:  First of two views as the train rolls down the siding to run around its train and deliver the high wides to the woodyard unloading site
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Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 3/12/2009 11:41:49 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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All of A746 is now stretched out into the siding as it creeps to the north end. The engines will run around and spot the loads before headed south back toward Montgomery
Title:  All of A746 is now stretched out into the siding as it creeps to the north end. The engines will run around and spot the loads before headed south back toward Montgomery
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Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 3/12/2009 11:42:18 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  66   Comments: 0
Close up of Lessor information under cab on GAPS switcher
Title:  Close up of Lessor information under cab on GAPS switcher
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 9/4/2010 5:50:53 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Main Relay house at NE Gabbetville near the Kia site
Title:  Main Relay house at NE Gabbetville near the Kia site
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Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 9/10/2010 11:04:10 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Looking south from the main relay house at NE Gabbetville. The Kia lead pulls off to the extreme left. Wild snap-dragon vines are already claiming the track.
Title:  Looking south from the main relay house at NE Gabbetville. The Kia lead pulls off to the extreme left. Wild snap-dragon vines are already claiming the track.
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Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 9/10/2010 11:06:12 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  143   Comments: 0
Q601 waits on Northbound at Gabbetville with loaded Kia train patched into yard air.
Title:  Q601 waits on Northbound at Gabbetville with loaded Kia train patched into yard air.
Description:  GAPS personnel do a Class A brake test on the train prior to calling CSX for pickup.
Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 9/11/2010 12:14:06 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  232   Comments: 2
FURX 710059 on A745 after being pulled from West Point Woodyard. The yard loaded shortwood pulpwood cars for years, and converted to truck hauled tree(length and pole length hauled on skeleton cars in the last few years as pulpwood was phased out
Title:  FURX 710059 on A745 after being pulled from West Point Woodyard. The yard loaded shortwood pulpwood cars for years, and converted to truck hauled tree(length and pole length hauled on skeleton cars in the last few years as pulpwood was phased out
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Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 3/12/2009 11:54:15 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Drawing of GAPS Switcher LOSX SW9 144
Title:  Drawing of GAPS Switcher LOSX SW9 144
Description:  Drawing by me using original artwork created by Michael Eby http://trainiax.net/mescaleloco.php
Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 9/10/2010 11:43:14 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  LOSX 144(SW9)
Views:  447   Comments: 1
Conductor side roster shot of GAPS switcher
Title:  Conductor side roster shot of GAPS switcher
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Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 9/4/2010 5:48:42 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  102   Comments: 1
Roster shot of GAPS switcher
Title:  Roster shot of GAPS switcher
Description:  ; built as PRR 8869 to 9095 to PC to CR
Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 9/4/2010 5:46:14 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  LOSX 144(SW9)
Views:  630   Comments: 0
GAPS Inc switcher working autoracks at KMMG in West Point, GA
Title:  GAPS Inc switcher working autoracks at KMMG in West Point, GA
Description:  built as PRR 8869 to 9095 to PC to CR
Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 9/4/2010 5:45:34 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LOSX 144(SW9)
Views:  2380   Comments: 2
Close up of GAPS logo on SW9 LOSX #144
Title:  Close up of GAPS logo on SW9 LOSX #144
Description:  built as PRR 8869 to 9095 to PC to CR
Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 9/4/2010 5:49:31 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  336   Comments: 0
GAPS working Gabbetville while UP powered CSX Q601 waits for DPU equipped Q602 train
Title:  GAPS working Gabbetville while UP powered CSX Q601 waits for DPU equipped Q602 train
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Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 9/4/2010 5:47:17 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  173   Comments: 1
Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia site map for rail operations, September 2010
Title:  Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia site map for rail operations, September 2010
Description:  This is the current arrangement of trackage in and around the Kia pad. It is highly recommended that one not trespass at any locations. This map created with overhead pictures published in local newspaper and visually verified WITH PERMISSION.
Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 9/9/2010 1:14:27 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Newest addition to the GAPS switcher fleet. Notice window type HVAC unit where window should be.
Title:  Newest addition to the GAPS switcher fleet. Notice window type HVAC unit where window should be.
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Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 9/10/2010 11:41:17 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Brand new remanufactured SW1500 waits on the Kia lead to go to work for GAPS, Inc, the contractor charged with rail operations along with its other final processing tasks.
Title:  Brand new remanufactured SW1500 waits on the Kia lead to go to work for GAPS, Inc, the contractor charged with rail operations along with its other final processing tasks.
Description:  The loaded racks sitting in the rear left of the pictures are on the two storage tracks at Gabbetville. The train is ready for CSX to pick up and forward to distributors.
Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 9/10/2010 4:43:50 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  LOSX 2587(SW1500)
Views:  535   Comments: 2
Shots of newly delivered SW1500 for GAPS, Inc, the contractor working rail and truck operations.
Title:  Shots of newly delivered SW1500 for GAPS, Inc, the contractor working rail and truck operations.
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 9/10/2010 4:43:49 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  LOSX 2587(SW1500)
Views:  201   Comments: 0
Shots of newly delivered SW1500 for GAPS, Inc, the contractor working rail and truck operations.
Title:  Shots of newly delivered SW1500 for GAPS, Inc, the contractor working rail and truck operations.
Description:  The paint was so new it cast an odd glare making photography difficult. It sits on the Kia plant lead at SE Gabbetville.
Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 9/10/2010 4:43:32 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  LOSX 2587(SW1500)
Views:  904   Comments: 1
Rigging personnel checking the lowboy watch as the second set of loads are shoved into the woodyard. The loaded log cars had to be extricated first, then the high wides were set jn their place
Title:  Rigging personnel checking the lowboy watch as the second set of loads are shoved into the woodyard. The loaded log cars had to be extricated first, then the high wides were set jn their place
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/10/2009  Upload Date: 3/12/2009 11:53:30 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  114   Comments: 0
CSX 972865 on WO18 Rail Train used to deliver rail to the Kia site to build Gabbetville siding, holding yard and lead.
Title:  CSX 972865 on WO18 Rail Train used to deliver rail to the Kia site to build Gabbetville siding, holding yard and lead.
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/4/2010  Upload Date: 7/7/2010 12:23:26 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  84   Comments: 0
CSX 972923 on WO18 Rail Train delivering rail to Kia project
Title:  CSX 972923 on WO18 Rail Train delivering rail to Kia project
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/4/2010  Upload Date: 7/7/2010 12:25:13 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  64   Comments: 0
CSX 972977 on WO18 Rail Train delivering rail to Kia project
Title:  CSX 972977 on WO18 Rail Train delivering rail to Kia project
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/4/2010  Upload Date: 7/7/2010 12:25:46 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  78   Comments: 0
CSX 972967 on WO18 Rail Train
Title:  CSX 972967 on WO18 Rail Train
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/4/2010  Upload Date: 7/7/2010 12:26:19 AM
Location:  Manchester, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  80   Comments: 0
CSX 973243 on WO18 Rail Train ferrying rail for Kia
Title:  CSX 973243 on WO18 Rail Train ferrying rail for Kia
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/4/2010  Upload Date: 7/7/2010 12:26:52 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  80   Comments: 0
Old L & N 972872 on WO18 Rail Train
Title:  Old L & N 972872 on WO18 Rail Train
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/4/2010  Upload Date: 7/7/2010 12:28:51 AM
Location:  Manchester, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  242   Comments: 0
CSX 972861on WO18 Rail Train detail of tied down car
Title:  CSX 972861on WO18 Rail Train detail of tied down car
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/4/2010  Upload Date: 7/7/2010 12:30:11 AM
Location:  Manchester, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  80   Comments: 0
CSX 972979 on WO18 Rail Train
Title:  CSX 972979 on WO18 Rail Train
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/4/2010  Upload Date: 7/7/2010 12:29:36 AM
Location:  Manchester, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  121   Comments: 0
CSX 973242 on WO18 Rail Train with rail for Kia project
Title:  CSX 973242 on WO18 Rail Train with rail for Kia project
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/4/2010  Upload Date: 7/7/2010 12:30:47 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  78   Comments: 0
CSX 2305 a GP35 Road Slug pulls rail train WO18
Title:  CSX 2305 a GP35 Road Slug pulls rail train WO18
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/4/2010  Upload Date: 7/7/2010 12:31:22 AM
Location:  Manchester, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  CSX 2305(Road Slug)
Views:  378   Comments: 1
CSX 6942 and companion road slug pulls rail train WO18 through West Point, GA. The train would eventually tie down in West Point and later deliver rail to the Kia site
Title:  CSX 6942 and companion road slug pulls rail train WO18 through West Point, GA. The train would eventually tie down in West Point and later deliver rail to the Kia site
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/4/2010  Upload Date: 7/7/2010 12:32:52 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 6942(GP40-2) CSX 2305(Road Slug)
Views:  697   Comments: 1
WO18 rolling through West Point, GA southbound on the AWP-WofA and will eventually have a local crew deliver rail to the Kia site
Title:  WO18 rolling through West Point, GA southbound on the AWP-WofA and will eventually have a local crew deliver rail to the Kia site
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/4/2010  Upload Date: 7/7/2010 12:33:26 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 2305(Road Slug)
Views:  251   Comments: 1
New switcher sits on Kia plant lead with CSX Q601 waiting along with loaded Kia train waiting on pick up
Title:  New switcher sits on Kia plant lead with CSX Q601 waiting along with loaded Kia train waiting on pick up
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/10/2010  Upload Date: 9/11/2010 12:15:59 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LOSX 2587(SW1500)
Views:  343   Comments: 2
CSX 972865, a rail train tie down car leads a train full of rail for the Kia project north of town.
Title:  CSX 972865, a rail train tie down car leads a train full of rail for the Kia project north of town.
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2010  Upload Date: 11/24/2009 4:15:15 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  84   Comments: 0
CSX 972923 is an intermediate welded rail car made from a pulpwood rack car and still has its old journal bearing faces. The rail is for the Kia project north of town
Title:  CSX 972923 is an intermediate welded rail car made from a pulpwood rack car and still has its old journal bearing faces. The rail is for the Kia project north of town
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2010  Upload Date: 11/24/2009 4:26:11 PM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  98   Comments: 0
EOT marks the end as it crosses Gabbetville Road crossing
Title:  EOT marks the end as it crosses Gabbetville Road crossing
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2010  Upload Date: 1/23/2010 12:14:29 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  93   Comments: 0
First CSX empty rack train into Kia
Title:  First CSX empty rack train into Kia
Description:  Fifty plus autoracks moved with a single GE unit from Montgomery, AL to Kia at West Point Georgia after Thanksgiving to officially start regular operations
Photo Date:  12/31/2010  Upload Date: 1/23/2010 12:07:38 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  Action
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Views:  141   Comments: 0
Rear of rack train moving by automatic derail on Kia lead
Title:  Rear of rack train moving by automatic derail on Kia lead
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2010  Upload Date: 1/23/2010 12:09:00 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  Action
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Views:  99   Comments: 0
Looking Northbound as the train moves into the lead at the North End of Gabbettville Siding. All this was built to handle the Kia rack trains by CSX in 2008-2009
Title:  Looking Northbound as the train moves into the lead at the North End of Gabbettville Siding. All this was built to handle the Kia rack trains by CSX in 2008-2009
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2010  Upload Date: 1/23/2010 12:10:46 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  97   Comments: 0
Telephoto of north end of Kia-West Point Storage Yard
Title:  Telephoto of north end of Kia-West Point Storage Yard
Description:  The original main is to the far right, followed by the Gabbetville Siding In the left foreground is the Kia Lead with the storage tracks splitting in the distance. The spot tamper is from the contractor building the tracks into the plant proper.
Photo Date:  12/31/2010  Upload Date: 1/23/2010 12:12:39 AM
Location:  Gabbettville, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  107   Comments: 0
CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Title:  CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Description:  A746 pulls one of the Transfer Yard tracks on the NS-CSX interchange full of coil cars for KIA in West Point, GA
Photo Date:  6/10/2012  Upload Date: 12/20/2012 10:07:02 AM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 688(AC60CW)
Views:  103   Comments: 0
CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Title:  CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Description:  End of cut of coil cars follows the locomotives out onto the mainline past a Notice sign at the road crossing
Photo Date:  6/10/2012  Upload Date: 12/20/2012 10:07:20 AM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  49   Comments: 0

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