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MEC 600
Title:  MEC 600
Description:  You ain't from round here is ya......
Photo Date:  12/17/2012  Upload Date: 12/17/2012 4:28:58 PM
Location:  Hamlet, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MEC 600(SD40-3)
Views:  78   Comments: 0
MEC 600
Title:  MEC 600
Description:  Another shot of the MEC 600, leaving Hamlet on Q-438, heading North up the CSX A line to Rocky Mount and beyond.
Photo Date:  12/17/2012  Upload Date: 12/17/2012 4:30:03 PM
Location:  Hamlet, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MEC 600(SD40-3)
Views:  283   Comments: 0
Q667
Title:  Q667
Description:  With the obivious ugly duckling leading the way, a 10mph slow order is given to him as he has gone into emergency three times covering only 6 miles. Culprit?....three empty TOFC, one with a shortened air hose.
Photo Date:  2/5/2017  Upload Date: 2/5/2017 7:02:32 PM
Location:  Hamlet, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 4001(SD40-3)
Views:  60   Comments: 0
4003
Title:  4003
Description:  CSX ugly duckling leads Q485 out to East Junction
Photo Date:  4/27/2014  Upload Date: 4/27/2014 7:14:29 PM
Location:  Hamlet, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 4003(SD40-3)
Views:  173   Comments: 1
Another "new" SD40-3
Title:  Another "new" SD40-3
Description:  HAving not seen any of the 'new' SD40-3's to know have three different ones come in to Hamlet. Wonder if I said the same about the SD80MAC's...if they'd come to Hamlet ??
Photo Date:  12/19/2012  Upload Date: 12/20/2012 8:49:22 AM
Location:  Hamlet, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 4015(SD40-3)
Views:  201   Comments: 1
Ugly duckling
Title:  Ugly duckling
Description:  Yeah, these new cabs are only ones a mother could love, but again, it's an all EMD lashup. Q478 leads HLCX 6305 out and down to Wilmington NC.
Photo Date:  3/1/2014  Upload Date: 3/1/2014 5:51:09 PM
Location:  Hamlet, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 4016(SD40-3)
Views:  198   Comments: 1
Ugly duckling
Title:  Ugly duckling
Description:  A late afternoon shot of an SD40-3...
Photo Date:  2/7/2016  Upload Date: 2/10/2016 10:05:15 AM
Location:  Hamlet, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 4017(SD40-3)
Views:  205   Comments: 1
4019
Title:  4019
Description:  CSX 4019 shows a new face, only a mother could love...
Photo Date:  12/17/2012  Upload Date: 12/17/2012 4:31:29 PM
Location:  Hamlet, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 4019(SD40-3)
Views:  304   Comments: 0
Only a face...
Title:  Only a face...
Description:  CSX 4033 sports a face only a mother could love. This is F-742 local, shoving empties into the ACW yard in Aberdeen NC.
Photo Date:  6/2/2013  Upload Date: 6/27/2013 8:50:13 AM
Location:  Aberdeen, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 4033(SD40-3)
Views:  303   Comments: 1
S484
Title:  S484
Description:  Another ugly duckling leads S484 from Rocky Mount, into Hamlet Yard
Photo Date:  2/5/2017  Upload Date: 2/5/2017 7:02:55 PM
Location:  Hamlet, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 4033(SD40-3)
Views:  179   Comments: 0
Stored
Title:  Stored
Description:  Even some of the newer, but older locomotives are now falling to the storage woes.
Photo Date:  7/8/2017  Upload Date: 7/8/2017 4:41:31 PM
Location:  Hamlet, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 4049(SD40-3)
Views:  283   Comments: 1
CSX 4058 pulls into the hole
Title:  CSX 4058 pulls into the hole
Description:  CSX locals F742 on the right and F741 on the left. Here 741 has to pull in the hole to allow 742 to proceed north up the S line in Aberdeen NC
Photo Date:  1/18/2018  Upload Date: 1/18/2018 7:11:25 PM
Location:  Aberdeen, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 4058(SD40-3)
Views:  147   Comments: 1
Clean but ugly
Title:  Clean but ugly
Description:  A semi fresh repaint shows this SD40-3 heading towards Cayce SC on Q463
Photo Date:  4/9/2016  Upload Date: 4/9/2016 2:20:13 PM
Location:  Hamlet, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 4225(SD40-3)
Views:  171   Comments: 2
Pushers
Title:  Pushers
Description:  A pair of ACW pushers were used to help the Stalite train up some tough grades a few miles back
Photo Date:  11/17/2014  Upload Date: 11/17/2014 6:38:51 PM
Location:  Candor, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ACWR 6909(SD40-3)
Views:  338   Comments: 0
First ever unit train
Title:  First ever unit train
Description:  ACW pulls the first ever loaded Stalite unit train. 62 loads here and wet rails made a long day for the train crews.
Photo Date:  11/17/2014  Upload Date: 11/17/2014 6:33:19 PM
Location:  Candor, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ACWR 6910(SD40-3)
Views:  219   Comments: 1
Passing by
Title:  Passing by
Description:  Local ACW runs behind the 3094 with the local job for the day
Photo Date:  3/13/2015  Upload Date: 3/13/2015 3:51:10 PM
Location:  Aberdeen, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ACWR 6910(SD40-3)
Views:  213   Comments: 1
A little help
Title:  A little help
Description:  ACWR SD40-3's 6910 and 6918 help shove the 92 loads when needed.
Photo Date:  3/20/2021  Upload Date: 3/20/2021 3:49:58 PM
Location:  West End, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ACWR 6910(SD40-3)
Views:  51   Comments: 0
ACW SD40-2s
Title:  ACW SD40-2s
Description:  ACW's newest SD40-3's wait for crews to take the chip cars and the loaded gas cars seen in the distance up the road.
Photo Date:  1/13/2011  Upload Date: 1/13/2011 3:33:36 PM
Location:  Aberdeen, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ACWR 6918(SD40-3)
Views:  526   Comments: 2
ACW 6918
Title:  ACW 6918
Description:  Heading in the yard in Aberdeen NC. Coming off the CSX S line
Photo Date:  1/19/2011  Upload Date: 1/19/2011 7:48:09 PM
Location:  Aberdeen, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ACWR 6918(SD40-3)
Views:  593   Comments: 0
new paint
Title:  new paint
Description:  ACW's 6918 is sporting fresh paint and on its maiden voyage.
Photo Date:  5/11/2011  Upload Date: 5/11/2011 9:08:34 PM
Location:  Aberdeen, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ACWR 6918(SD40-3)
Views:  1333   Comments: 1
Passing by the ex Southern freight station
Title:  Passing by the ex Southern freight station
Description:  Train 200 passes by the ex Southern/NS freight station along highway 5, just North of Aberdeen. This is the first of the new SD40-3's in new paint.
Photo Date:  5/11/2011  Upload Date: 5/11/2011 9:09:37 PM
Location:  Aberdeen, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ACWR 6918(SD40-3)
Views:  739   Comments: 1
Christmas ACW
Title:  Christmas ACW
Description:  The ACW 6918 is the first of the SD40-3's ACW painted to this current scheme. Looks great after all these years and passing tree limbs. This time, he is sporting fancy lights and good ole Saint Nick
Photo Date:  12/7/2016  Upload Date: 12/7/2016 8:47:19 PM
Location:  Aberdeen, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories:  Night
Locomotives:  ACWR 6918(SD40-3)
Views:  214   Comments: 2
ACWR 6919
Title:  ACWR 6919
Description:  ACWR 6919 waits in the hole for the CSX 3133 to pull past, near Perdue Feed Mill
Photo Date:  11/7/2013  Upload Date: 11/7/2013 5:50:39 PM
Location:  Candor, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ACWR 6919(SD40-3)
Views:  328   Comments: 2
200 job
Title:  200 job
Description:  ACW 200 job enters Aberdeen Yard, after waiting for two CSX trains to get out of the way.
Photo Date:  11/26/2013  Upload Date: 11/26/2013 7:55:50 PM
Location:  Aberdeen, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ACWR 6919(SD40-3)
Views:  225   Comments: 0
Old transformer
Title:  Old transformer
Description:  ACW moves out the old Progress Energy transformer as new ones have been installed. This is the first time, that I remember ever seeing this large type equipment move on this line. NS may have done it back in the early 70's when they operated this line, but I was too young to remember if so.
Photo Date:  4/2/2012  Upload Date: 4/8/2012 8:47:38 PM
Location:  Pinehurst, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ACWR 6922(SD40-3)
Views:  445   Comments: 0
Passing by
Title:  Passing by
Description:  One of the few, maybe the only remaining..unpainted Alstrom SD40-3 on ACW's roster, passes by the owners private varnish as they sit out decorated for Christmas
Photo Date:  12/31/2020  Upload Date: 12/31/2020 7:39:30 PM
Location:  Pinehurst, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ACWR 6922(SD40-3)
Views:  161   Comments: 0
Ex Alstrom
Title:  Ex Alstrom
Description:  Ex Alstrom....ex CN SD40-3 sits coupled to an ex UP slug in Star NC.
Photo Date:  3/27/2014  Upload Date: 3/27/2014 7:45:15 PM
Location:  Star, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ACWR 6925(SD40-3)
Views:  462   Comments: 0
ACW 6926
Title:  ACW 6926
Description:  One of the newest additions to the ACW fleet, heads North along highway 5 in Aberdeen.
Photo Date:  10/15/2010  Upload Date: 10/18/2010 5:45:01 PM
Location:  Aberdeen, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ACWR 6926(SD40-3)
Views:  494   Comments: 0
ACW 6926
Title:  ACW 6926
Description:  ACW 6926 pulls a few grain buffer cars and a long string of gas cars behind. He is running as F-799 ... CSX F-799
Photo Date:  2/2/2011  Upload Date: 2/1/2011 4:27:37 PM
Location:  Pinehurst, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ACWR 6926(SD40-3)
Views:  824   Comments: 1
tight quarters
Title:  tight quarters
Description:  A pair of ACW SD40-3's sit in the sun with a long cut of empties. Waiting for more to unload, seen to the right in this picture.
Photo Date:  3/14/2013  Upload Date: 3/14/2013 5:40:09 PM
Location:  Candor, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ACWR 6926(SD40-3)
Views:  248   Comments: 1
6926
Title:  6926
Description:  ACW 6926 coming out of dynamic brakes, heading twoards Aberdeen to interchange with CSX.
Photo Date:  5/29/2014  Upload Date: 5/29/2014 11:20:59 AM
Location:  Eagle Springs, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ACWR 6926(SD40-3)
Views:  241   Comments: 0
ACW 200 job
Title:  ACW 200 job
Description:  ACW 200 job hits notch 8 as he clears the Aberdeen Yard limits
Photo Date:  1/18/2018  Upload Date: 1/18/2018 7:12:48 PM
Location:  Aberdeen, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ACWR 6926(SD40-3)
Views:  120   Comments: 0


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