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Viewing Album:  Great Walton Rail- Covington Line: Summer 1995
 
By:Eric Rickert
Dates:8/5/1995 - 8/5/1995
Album Info:Taken during summer 1995 of a Great Walton Rail freight train from Covington, GA to Machen, GA and return. The line has since been abandoned north of Newborn with the portion south of here only used for freight car storage. The Williams Brothers sawmill in Covington that shipped the woodchips closed in the 2000's and grain elevator in Newborn that received the covered hoppers has closed as well, which left the line without customers. The Chessie System chopped-nose GP9 seen here is preserved today on George's Creek Railway in Maryland.
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Great Walton Rail
Title:  Great Walton Rail
Description:  I was fortunate to ride along with the crew on two seperate occasions. This locomotive also had a cameo role in the movie "My Cousin Vinny", which was filmed nearby. It is now preserved in its original Western Maryland paint scheme on the Georges Creek Railway in Maryland.
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/13/2006 8:54:00 PM
Location:  Covington, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  2724   Comments: 0
GRWR 6400
Title:  GRWR 6400
Description:  SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:00 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  220   Comments: 0
GRWR 6400
Title:  GRWR 6400
Description:  SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:03 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  276   Comments: 0
GRWR 6400
Title:  GRWR 6400
Description:  SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen. Judging by the stray truck, it looks like this was also the site of a derailment.
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:07 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  248   Comments: 0
GRWR 6400
Title:  GRWR 6400
Description:  Switching the grain elevator. I still remember the pine tree scent from those chip hoppers!
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:10 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  154   Comments: 0
GRWR 6400
Title:  GRWR 6400
Description:  SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen and switching the grain elevator.
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:18 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  186   Comments: 0
The Right Way: Central of Georgia
Title:  The Right Way: Central of Georgia
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:09:19 PM
Location:  Covington, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  181   Comments: 0
Pulling upgrade from the Alcovy River crossing
Title:  Pulling upgrade from the Alcovy River crossing
Description:  Southbound Great Walton train heading the NS interchange at Machen
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:09:45 PM
Location:  Starrsville, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WM 6400(GP9) GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  174   Comments: 0
It's train time in Mansfield. Today, a shared-use path is in this spot.
Title:  It's train time in Mansfield. Today, a shared-use path is in this spot.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:23 PM
Location:  Mansfield, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WM 6400(GP9) GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  284   Comments: 0
GRWR 6400
Title:  GRWR 6400
Description:  NB Great Walton Rail train heading from the NS interchange with empty chip hoppers for Covington
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:34 PM
Location:  Farrar, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  164   Comments: 0
Site of an earlier derailment
Title:  Site of an earlier derailment
Description:  That derailed hopper body with trucks removed stayed there for an least another 10 years
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:38 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  187   Comments: 0
A quintessential southern shortline image
Title:  A quintessential southern shortline image
Description:  SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:42 PM
Location:  Farrar, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  154   Comments: 0
Arriving at the NS interchange
Title:  Arriving at the NS interchange
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:46 PM
Location:  Machen, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WM 6400(GP9) GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  185   Comments: 0
Great Walton at NS interchange
Title:  Great Walton at NS interchange
Description:  Great Walton Rail train, having picked up the empty woodchip hoppers from NS, is preparing to return north to Covington.
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:49 PM
Location:  Machen, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  159   Comments: 0
Great Walton at NS interchange
Title:  Great Walton at NS interchange
Description:  Prior to 1959, this line, as part of the Central of Georgia Ry, continued south to Eatonton
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:53 PM
Location:  Machen, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  152   Comments: 0
Site of a previous derailment
Title:  Site of a previous derailment
Description:  SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:56 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  205   Comments: 0
Great Walton Rail- I can still smell the pine aroma of those wood chips
Title:  Great Walton Rail- I can still smell the pine aroma of those wood chips
Description:  Brakemen 'Buzz' is guiding chop nosed GP-9 #6400 backwards as it retrieves empty covered hoppers at the feed mill. It is now preserved in its original Western Maryland paint scheme on the Georges Creek Railway in Maryland.
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/13/2006 9:14:48 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WM 6400(GP9) GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  1328   Comments: 0

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