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Gas and Go!!
Title:  Gas and Go!!
Description:  Southern GP38-2 #5181 and a sister geep are spotted at the fuel rack in Charlotte,N.C.
Photo Date:  1/1/1990  Upload Date: 10/30/2006 10:55:36 PM
Location:  Charlotte, NC
Author:  Sean Rhinehart
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 5181(GP38-2)
Views:  510   Comments: 1
SOU 5182
Title:  SOU 5182
Description:  New to site
Photo Date:  6/1/1985  Upload Date: 7/27/2015 11:37:11 PM
Location:  Centralia, IL
Author:  Dave Ritter
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5182(GP38-2)
Views:  346   Comments: 1
SOU 5182
Title:  SOU 5182
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1985  Upload Date: 7/27/2015 11:37:43 PM
Location:  Centralia, IL
Author:  Dave Ritter
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5182(GP38-2)
Views:  218   Comments: 1
SOU 5182
Title:  SOU 5182
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/8/1987  Upload Date: 11/4/2021 1:39:00 PM
Location:  Raleigh, NC
Author:  Harold Hodnett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 5182(GP38-2)
Views:  230   Comments: 0
Southern 5182
Title:  Southern 5182
Description:  The money shot!....which I ruined by snapping a second or two early. Truck, why are you there?! Southern RR #5182 is heading east through Nashville, toward Willacoochee GA.
Photo Date:  12/20/1987  Upload Date: 12/19/2015 10:56:19 PM
Location:  Nashville, GA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5182(GP38-2)
Views:  154   Comments: 1
Nasty day in Nashville
Title:  Nasty day in Nashville
Description:  When youre 14 years old, you dont always get to choose when and where you photograph trains. If a cruddy, misty day is whats on offer, then thats what you take.
Photo Date:  12/21/1987  Upload Date: 12/19/2015 11:01:27 PM
Location:  Nashville, GA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5182(GP38-2)
Views:  182   Comments: 1
Southern 5182
Title:  Southern 5182
Description:  Profile shot of Southern Railway #5182 as it rolls northbound into Nashville, GA.
Photo Date:  12/21/1987  Upload Date: 12/19/2015 11:03:29 PM
Location:  Nashville, GA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5182(GP38-2)
Views:  220   Comments: 1
Southern 5183
Title:  Southern 5183
Description:  Southern 5183 westbound to Seneca, SC.
Photo Date:  6/20/1982  Upload Date: 9/16/2011 4:28:04 PM
Location:  La France, SC
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5183(GP38-2)
Views:  311   Comments: 0
Southern 5183
Title:  Southern 5183
Description:  Southern train #68, the Anderson branch local, waits to leave Seneca for Anderson.
Photo Date:  12/7/1982  Upload Date: 3/20/2012 8:22:30 PM
Location:  Seneca, SC
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5183(GP38-2)
Views:  356   Comments: 1
SOU GP38-2 5183
Title:  SOU GP38-2 5183
Description:  Southern Railway GP38-2 5183 at Asheville, North Carolina on December 29, 1984, Kodachrome by Gib Allbach, Chuck Zeiler collection.
Photo Date:  12/29/1984  Upload Date: 10/10/2013 2:28:51 PM
Location:  Asheville, NC
Author:  Gib Allbach
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 5183(GP38-2)
Views:  271   Comments: 0
Southern train near Clemson, SC
Title:  Southern train near Clemson, SC
Description:  Southern train #67 westbound on the other railroad bridge over the Seneca River near Clemson. This train is going to Seneca, SC
Photo Date:  5/26/1978  Upload Date: 3/16/2011 2:32:39 PM
Location:  Clemson, SC
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5184(GP38-2)
Views:  561   Comments: 0
Southern 5184
Title:  Southern 5184
Description:  5184 is passing through Bath, SC in this 1982 photo.
Photo Date:  7/2/1982  Upload Date: 8/14/2015 7:50:48 AM
Location:  Bath, SC
Author:  Randy Chassereau
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5184(GP38-2)
Views:  434   Comments: 0
SR 5184
Title:  SR 5184
Description:  SR 5184 at Charlottesville Train Station
Photo Date:  8/9/1982  Upload Date: 2/1/2020 5:51:14 PM
Location:  Charlottesville, VA
Author:  Paul Maciulewicz
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 5184(GP38-2)
Views:  352   Comments: 1
SOU 5184
Title:  SOU 5184
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/26/1984  Upload Date: 9/25/2013 3:16:44 PM
Location:  Morristown, TN
Author:  Johnny Winkler
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5184(GP38-2)
Views:  381   Comments: 0
Classic look
Title:  Classic look
Description:  Almost 6 years into the NS merger, there were still a lot of diesels that had not been repainted. A pair in the classic Southern tuxedo scheme work this local headed for Potomac Yard at AF.
Photo Date:  4/30/1988  Upload Date: 7/7/2015 5:06:11 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5185(GP38-2) SOU 2620(GP30)
Views:  225   Comments: 0
Southern Railway System (SOU) EMD GP38-2 No. 5186
Title:  Southern Railway System (SOU) EMD GP38-2 No. 5186
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/12/1978  Upload Date: 11/24/2006 8:45:47 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Bill Rogerson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2)
Views:  376   Comments: 2
SOU 5186
Title:  SOU 5186
Description:  6.27.1981 Charlotte, NC. GP38-2s 5186 and 5020 out on a delivery with caboose in tow.
Photo Date:  6/27/1981  Upload Date: 1/6/2023 3:20:15 PM
Location:  Charlotte, NC
Author:  Lee Herbert
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2)
Views:  138   Comments: 0
SOU GP38-2 5186
Title:  SOU GP38-2 5186
Description:  Southern Railway GP38-2 5186 at Lawrenceburg, Kentucky on September 7, 1985, Kodachrome by Gib Allbach, Chuck Zeiler collection.
Photo Date:  9/7/1985  Upload Date: 10/23/2013 6:29:30 PM
Location:  Lawrenceburg, KY
Author:  Gib Allbach
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2)
Views:  308   Comments: 0
SOU 5186
Title:  SOU 5186
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/9/1985  Upload Date: 11/4/2022 5:35:05 AM
Location:  Raleigh, NC
Author:  Harold Hodnett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2)
Views:  68   Comments: 0
SOU 5186
Title:  SOU 5186
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/14/1986  Upload Date: 2/1/2017 8:50:09 PM
Location:  Jenkinsburg, GA
Author:  Brant Weems
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2)
Views:  199   Comments: 0
Yard and road power
Title:  Yard and road power
Description:  D&H 5017 works a cut of cars as todays prize, the power for RPPY, sits next to the tower. I got lucky today-RPPY went south shortly after this was taken, and I was able to chase to Scranton. Another piece of vanished railroading is in this photo: the D&H box car next to 5017.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 1:11:44 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  DH 5017(RS36) SOU 3906(U23B) SOU 2726(GP38) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 5186(GP38-2)
Views:  618   Comments: 0
Southern power on 556
Title:  Southern power on 556
Description:  Train 556 is southbound from Binghamton as it passes through a truss bridge on the former DLW in Conklin. This train had three units still painted Southern almost 8 years after the NS merger.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/31/2011 1:43:58 AM
Location:  Conklin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  697   Comments: 0
RPPY and a Lackawanna signal
Title:  RPPY and a Lackawanna signal
Description:  RPPY led by a Southern high hood GP 38 passes under a DLW signal bridge as it descends into Scranton from Clarks Summit.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 6/10/2012 3:11:06 AM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  642   Comments: 1
Under the lights
Title:  Under the lights
Description:  In this case, the signals of the DLW, though these were long ago deactivated. RPPY roll south at Cayuga, just north of Scranton, and along the Scranton Expressway, making for an easy shot.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 1:42:43 AM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  580   Comments: 1
Southern and snow
Title:  Southern and snow
Description:  I know there are many parts of Southerns empire where snow is not all that unusual, but I have to love the idea of power from such a typically warm area running up in the snow and cold of NY and PA. This RPPY has just left East Binghamton, and is slowly making its way through Conklin.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 1:55:52 AM
Location:  Conklin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  435   Comments: 0
Winter wonderland
Title:  Winter wonderland
Description:  It wasnt so wonderful to us, just a long period of cold and snow that had to be endured, except that it gave us some good photo ops. One of these was off the NY 7 overpass at the south end of Conklin, where RPPY is rolling for a place where the winters arent so bad.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 1:59:02 AM
Location:  Conklin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  500   Comments: 0
Slogging along
Title:  Slogging along
Description:  RPPY rolls south-slowly, there was a 10 MPH slow order here-through the heavy snow left from a few days earlier.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 2:01:15 AM
Location:  Conklin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  362   Comments: 0
Wide view
Title:  Wide view
Description:  RPPY rolls south approaching the PA line, as seen from high above on NY 7, showing the panoramic beauty of winter in Broome County.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 2:05:10 AM
Location:  Conklin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  410   Comments: 0
Almost there
Title:  Almost there
Description:  The 10 MPH slow order ended at the end of double track just south of here. RPPY near Stillwater crossing in Conklin getting a little bit of sun.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 2:08:34 AM
Location:  Conklin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  473   Comments: 0
Iced
Title:  Iced
Description:  RPPY rolls south along the iced over rocks at Hop Bottom, passing the DLW station as it goes. This was a Christmas card the following year.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 1:44:40 AM
Location:  Hop Bottom, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Station,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  498   Comments: 0
Cold day
Title:  Cold day
Description:  RPPY behind all Southern power, rolls south toward the PA 706 overpass on a cold day during Christmas week.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/14/2015 4:53:27 AM
Location:  New Milford, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  473   Comments: 0
Getting out
Title:  Getting out
Description:  RPPY has just left East Binghamton, and is passing BLS Shaws. By this time, trains have usually cleared the south limit of the yard. There is still a slow slog to the end of the double track south of Conklin, as there is a 10 MPH speed restriction in place. Its a drag for the crews, but a great opportunity for photographers.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 2:10:38 AM
Location:  Conklin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  424   Comments: 0
First stop
Title:  First stop
Description:  RPPY has run down from Binghamton, and now makes its first stop. It will set off and pick up here, then head on toward warmer places.
Photo Date:  12/28/1989  Upload Date: 12/15/2015 1:49:51 AM
Location:  Taylor, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Station,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  564   Comments: 0
RPPY with Southern power
Title:  RPPY with Southern power
Description:  RPPY heads past the former DL&W station at Hop Bottom PA
Photo Date:  12/30/1989  Upload Date: 11/11/2011 1:37:07 AM
Location:  Hop Bottom, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Station,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5186(GP38-2) NS 5201(GP38-2) SOU 2726(GP38) SOU 3906(U23B)
Views:  773   Comments: 1
Southern 5187
Title:  Southern 5187
Description:  Southern 5187 headed east from West Union.
Photo Date:  11/8/1980  Upload Date: 6/10/2011 8:23:17 PM
Location:  West Union, SC
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5187(GP38-2)
Views:  399   Comments: 0
SOU 5187 (GP38-2) SOU X223
Title:  SOU 5187 (GP38-2) SOU X223
Description:  SOU 5187 (GP38-2) SOU X223 caboose, Tuscaloosa, Ala., summer 1983 (exact date unknown)
Photo Date:  6/1/1983  Upload Date: 4/17/2013 10:23:25 PM
Location:  Tuscaloosa, AL
Author:  Robert Proctor
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives:  SOU 5187(GP38-2)
Views:  453   Comments: 0
Southern 5187
Title:  Southern 5187
Description:  5187 is working at Nixon yard, Augusta, Ga. in this 1984 photo.
Photo Date:  10/13/1984  Upload Date: 8/14/2015 7:58:34 AM
Location:  Augusta, GA
Author:  Randy Chassereau
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5187(GP38-2)
Views:  717   Comments: 0
SOU 5188
Title:  SOU 5188
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1977  Upload Date: 5/30/2005 8:03:17 PM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  Edwin Locklin
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 5188(GP38-2)
Views:  605   Comments: 0
SOU 5189 at East Bridge Tower
Title:  SOU 5189 at East Bridge Tower
Description:  Once the tower operator at East Bridge Jct lines the switches, eastbound trains can leave the bridge and head for one of several locations (NS, CSX, or NOPB). This Southern local is leaving the NOPB interchange yard at the foot of the Huey P. Long bridge. The track the Southern local is on, as well as the track in the foreground are owned by the NOPB. The track behind the tower is the ICG mainline, today shared by Amtrak, IC, and the KCS.
Photo Date:  11/28/1981  Upload Date: 11/20/2010 5:48:12 AM
Location:  Jefferson, LA
Author:  Jerry Sires
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5189(GP38-2)
Views:  295   Comments: 0
SOU 5190 with the steam excursion consist
Title:  SOU 5190 with the steam excursion consist
Description:  5.29.1982 Charlotte, NC. station platform. Track 2. SOU 5190 GP38-2 coupling up to the earlier day's steam excursion passenger consist so the cars can be taken off the mainline to the yard and be cleaned for Sunday's run with ex C&O K-4 Class 2716. Like Saturday, it will be a round trip between Charlotte, Colombia, SC, and Spartanburg, SC.
Photo Date:  5/29/1982  Upload Date: 2/27/2023 2:30:37 PM
Location:  Charlotte, NC
Author:  Lee Herbert
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 5190(GP38-2)
Views:  37   Comments: 0
Southern 5191
Title:  Southern 5191
Description:  SOU 5191 arriving in Seneca from Anderson with the daily local.
Photo Date:  9/13/1981  Upload Date: 7/23/2011 8:35:32 AM
Location:  Seneca, SC
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5191(GP38-2)
Views:  371   Comments: 0
Southern 5191
Title:  Southern 5191
Description:  5191 working in Walhalla, SC.
Photo Date:  9/13/1981  Upload Date: 7/23/2011 8:37:28 AM
Location:  Walhalla, SC
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5191(GP38-2)
Views:  372   Comments: 0
Southern 5193
Title:  Southern 5193
Description:  Southern 5193 leads an eastbound local through Newton, NC
Photo Date:  7/11/1980  Upload Date: 5/28/2011 8:44:06 PM
Location:  Newton, NC
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5193(GP38-2)
Views:  527   Comments: 0
Southern Railway GP38-2 #5194 (flying white "extra" flags) leads the "Roanoke Rocket" on the "T" line towards Roanoke Junction
Title:  Southern Railway GP38-2 #5194 (flying white "extra" flags) leads the "Roanoke Rocket" on the "T" line towards Roanoke Junction
Description:  Southern Railway GP38-2 #5194 was built October 1976 and later became Norfolk Southern #5194.
Photo Date:  10/7/1983  Upload Date: 2/3/2012 8:57:35 AM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Bernie Feltman
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5194(GP38-2)
Views:  670   Comments: 6
Southern 5194
Title:  Southern 5194
Description:  Southern 5194 is helping N&W 1218 set up for another steam excursion run in this 1987 photo.
Photo Date:  5/23/1987  Upload Date: 8/14/2015 7:52:27 AM
Location:  Greenville, SC
Author:  Randy Chassereau
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5194(GP38-2) NW 1218(NW Type A 2-6-6-4)
Views:  1418   Comments: 1
SOU GP38-2 5195
Title:  SOU GP38-2 5195
Description:  Southern Railway GP38-2 5195 and GP38 2876 were tied up at the engine terminal in Meridian, Mississippi. The photo was taken from the southbound SOUTHERN CRESCENT.
Photo Date:  7/10/1977  Upload Date: 12/8/2017 6:05:21 PM
Location:  Meridian, MS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SOU 5195(GP38-2)
Views:  489   Comments: 1
The Gastonia Swticher, in the siding at Gastonia.
Title:  The Gastonia Swticher, in the siding at Gastonia.
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/27/1984  Upload Date: 7/4/2013 8:22:17 AM
Location:  Gastonia, NC
Author:  Jim Owens
Categories:  Roster,Night
Locomotives:  SOU 5195(GP38-2)
Views:  271   Comments: 0
Southern Crescent Dome View, side, July, 1978
Title:  Southern Crescent Dome View, side, July, 1978
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2005  Upload Date: 1/8/2006 12:14:54 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  John Sita
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 5195(GP38-2)
Views:  335   Comments: 0
SOU 5196
Title:  SOU 5196
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/10/1980  Upload Date: 1/31/2008 7:14:18 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  C.W. Lahickey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 5196(GP38-2)
Views:  353   Comments: 0


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