AlabamaRailfan.com Photo Galleries: The Decatur Area
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An NS local freight heads east through the interlocking in Decatur, AL.

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The CSX Greenbrier passenger car in Kentucky Derby Special on 5-2-2000!

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The CSX Georgia passenger car in Kentucky Derby Special on 5-2-2000!

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The CSX Baltimore passenger car in Kentucky Derby Special on 5-2-2000!

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Those ex-Amtrak F40PHs (considered by CSX as FE7As) sure look nice in CSX paint! Here is CSX 9993 on the point of the Kentucky Derby Special on 5-2-2000!

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Here is CSX 9992 helping out on the Kentucky Derby Special on 5-2-2000!

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Here is a shot of CSX Track Geometry car 994302 on the back of CSX inspection train W001 as the train is backed into the yard from the main line before tying up.

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Here is a shot of CSX Track Geometry car 994302 on the back of CSX inspection train W001 as the train is backed into the yard from the main line before tying up.

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CSX MofW GP40 9729 rests between assignments at Oakworth yard in Decatur, AL.

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A short work train with an MOW GP40 on the point is tied up on the riverside branch at Decatur, AL.

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A CSX MofW GP40 is parked in a siding at Oakworth yard in Decatur, AL.

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This GP38 is ex-CSX 2002, previously ex-B&O 3802. It was picked by Trains Magazine as the All-American Diesel! Note the white plaque on the bottom of the cab! It is shown here helping out on a ballast train at Decatur, AL.

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This neat shot shows a CSX MofW GP38 with some assorted track equipment at Oakworth yard in Decatur, AL.

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A short work train with an MOW GP38 on the point is tied up at Decatur, AL.

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CSX MofW U23B 9552 rests between assignments at Oakworth yard in Decatur, AL.

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CSX work train M034 is tied up in Oakworth yard in Decatur, AL with a MofW U18B on the point.

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A Southbound CSX train rolls past the signals at milepost 308 in Decatur, AL.

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CSX track inspection car GRMS1 was tied up in CSX's Oakworth yard in Decatur, AL when I caught this shot on the way to work early one morning.

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Here is the group photo showing about 42 of the 52 railfans that made it to the Spring Railfan Hootenny 2001! What a great looking group!

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Shutters snap and video cameras roll as south bound CSX train Q647 heads past the Hootenanny!

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NS intermodal train 202 rolls through the interlocking in Decatur, AL.

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The NS yard job that went out on the river banch ahead of of CSX Q647, now heads back through the interlocking and to the NS Decatur yard.

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Norfolk Southern train 365 rolls through the defect detector at milepost 358.5 east of Decatur, AL.

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I have always thought it would be neat to live in one of these condominiums near the riverside industrial branch in Decatur, AL. Here the NS Decatur Yard Engine rolls it's train through the derail that protects the main line at River Jct.

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I caught this Loram ditcher headed north bound on the CSX at Harris siding north of Decatur, AL, as train W036 after a long day's work.

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