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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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CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Title:  CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Description:  Opelika is a marshalling and storage point for local traffic with CSX local A746 using the old WofA-SOU transfer to hold and sort cars
Photo Date:  6/10/2012  Upload Date: 12/20/2012 10:07:27 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  57   Comments: 2
CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Title:  CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Description:  A746 drops down the lead and into the three track transfer yard to recover stored coil cars. It is not every day such a large road engine is local swiching on steam era trackage
Photo Date:  6/10/2012  Upload Date: 12/20/2012 10:07:32 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  CSX 688(AC60CW)
Views:  90   Comments: 1
CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Title:  CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Description:  A call over the radio from the conductor and the big AC leads a string of coil cars out of the transfer and past retored downtown businesses.
Photo Date:  6/10/2012  Upload Date: 12/20/2012 10:05:37 AM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  CSX 688(AC60CW)
Views:  100   Comments: 0
CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Title:  CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Description:  Opelika is a marshalling and storage point for local traffic with CSX local A746 using the old WofA-SOU transfer to hold and sort cars
Photo Date:  6/10/2012  Upload Date: 12/20/2012 10:06:09 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  46   Comments: 1
CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Title:  CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Description:  Opelika is a marshalling and storage point for local traffic with CSX local A746 using the old WofA-SOU transfer to hold and sort cars
Photo Date:  6/10/2012  Upload Date: 12/20/2012 10:06:34 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories: 
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Views:  45   Comments: 1
CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Title:  CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Description:  Opelika is a marshalling and storage point for local traffic with CSX local A746 using the old WofA-SOU transfer to hold and sort cars
Photo Date:  6/10/2012  Upload Date: 12/20/2012 10:06:43 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  48   Comments: 1
CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Title:  CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Description:  Opelika is a marshalling and storage point for local traffic with CSX local A746 using the old WofA-SOU transfer to hold and sort cars
Photo Date:  6/10/2012  Upload Date: 12/20/2012 10:06:49 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  47   Comments: 1
CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Title:  CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Description:  Opelika is a marshalling and storage point for local traffic with CSX local A746 using the old WofA-SOU transfer to hold and sort cars
Photo Date:  6/10/2012  Upload Date: 12/20/2012 10:06:27 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  53   Comments: 1
CSX A746 with AC4400Q #416 on transfer lead at Opelika, AL
Title:  CSX A746 with AC4400Q #416 on transfer lead at Opelika, AL
Description:  Opelika is a marshalling and storage point for local traffic with CSX local A746 using the old WofA-SOU transfer to hold and sort cars
Photo Date:  6/10/2012  Upload Date: 12/20/2012 10:06:20 AM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  CSX 416(AC44CW)
Views:  87   Comments: 0
CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Title:  CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Description:  Opelika is a marshalling and storage point for local traffic with CSX local A746 using the old WofA-SOU transfer to hold and sort cars
Photo Date:  6/10/2012  Upload Date: 12/20/2012 10:06:56 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  48   Comments: 1
CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Title:  CSX A746 switching coil cars and blocking train at Opelika
Description:  Shot of new CSX coil car loaded with steel that will soon be made into KIA Sorento and Optima vehicles
Photo Date:  6/10/2012  Upload Date: 12/20/2012 10:07:08 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  83   Comments: 0
A long shot of A746 train after setting out coil cars on KIA lead
Title:  A long shot of A746 train after setting out coil cars on KIA lead
Description:  CSX A746 runs around its train on Gabbetville Siding after setting out the coil cars on the KIA lead to the left. KIA supplier HYSCO began taking coil by rail in 2012 and the local has the job of bringing it up from Montgomery.
Photo Date:  10/10/2012  Upload Date: 12/20/2012 9:40:29 AM
Location:  West Point, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Views:  82   Comments: 0

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