| 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 downtown 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 against 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 Opelika 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) |
| Views: |
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