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NS'S Alabama Divison AGS North District
Title:  NS'S Alabama Divison AGS North District
Description:  NS Southbound FEMA Hurricane Katrina Relief Train 043 passing through Argo, Al.
Photo Date:  3/7/2006  Upload Date: 11/26/2008 1:40:38 AM
Location:  Argo, AL
Author:  william davis
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  WC 6605(SD45) NS 3227(SD40-2)
Views:  2278   Comments: 2
NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Title:  NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Description:  NS Northbound Empty Military Train 056 rumbles through Argo, Al.
Photo Date:  5/4/2008  Upload Date: 5/9/2014 11:53:09 AM
Location:  Argo, AL
Author:  William H. Davis Jr.
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  TFM 1428(SD40-2) KCS 610(SD40-3)
Views:  1918   Comments: 2
NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Title:  NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Description:  NS Southbound Local Freight Train A50 ( Birmingham to Attalla, Al. Turn ) passing through Argo, Al. with GP38-2 #5228 running Southern Railway style with the longhood forward, it's getting more & more rare to catch these running longhood forward, I've even seen GE widecabs run longhood forward occasionally on 384 usually
Photo Date:  8/16/2011  Upload Date: 8/17/2011 11:19:26 AM
Location:  Argo, AL
Author:  william davis
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 5228(GP38-2) NS 4627(GP59)
Views:  1246   Comments: 6
NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Title:  NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Description:  NS Southbound Local Freight Train A50 ( Birmingham to Attalla, Al. Turn ) passing through Argo, Al.
Photo Date:  9/9/2011  Upload Date: 9/11/2011 5:59:35 PM
Location:  Argo, AL
Author:  william davis
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 6129(SD40-2) NS 5508(GP38-2) NS 3308(SD40-2) NS 5062(GP38-2)
Views:  1341   Comments: 2
NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Title:  NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Description:  NS Southbound Freight Train 179 ( Bellevue, Ohio to Birmingham, Al. ) passing through Argo, Al. with a pair of EMDX Oakway Leasing SD60's leading the way, many of these EMDX Oakway Leasing SD60's became GMTX SD60's & were leased to NS so it was rare to catch these in their original EMDX Oakway Leasing paint scheme being most became GMTX SD60's
Photo Date:  9/10/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 8:07:01 PM
Location:  Argo, AL
Author:  william davis
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  EMDX 9006(SD60) EMDX 9072(SD60) NS 2538(SD70)
Views:  1194   Comments: 6
NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Title:  NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Description:  NS Southbound Freight Train 15T ( Allentown, Pa. to Birmingham, Al. ) passing through Argo, Al. with GMTX SD60 9041 leading the way, the 9041 is the former EMD #3 Demonstrator SD60, of which I was fortunate to have caught leading 2 NS freights while NS had these GMTX SD60's leased, CN wound up buying most if not all of these GMTX SD60's & are in CN paint now
Photo Date:  9/10/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 8:16:10 PM
Location:  Argo, AL
Author:  william davis
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  GMTX 9041(SD60) NS 6735(SD60I)
Views:  1045   Comments: 4
NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Title:  NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Description:  NS Southbound Coal Train 730 passing through Argo, Al. on their way to R.D. Morrow Generating Plant AKA South Mississippi Electric Power Association for dumping
Photo Date:  4/7/2012  Upload Date: 4/7/2012 10:40:54 PM
Location:  Argo, AL
Author:  william davis
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 1011(SD70ACe) NS 8053(ES44AC)
Views:  1274   Comments: 8
NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Title:  NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Description:  NS Northbound Freight Train 130 ( New Orleans, La. to Chattanooga, Tn. ) passing through Argo, Al. with a pair of UP SD90/43MAC's for power, while it's very common to catch UP all day long on CSXT & NS in the Birmingham, Al. area, it's not very common at all to catch these SD90/43MAC's & especially solid consists of them
Photo Date:  6/13/2012  Upload Date: 6/14/2012 1:05:28 AM
Location:  Argo, AL
Author:  william davis
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8186(SD9043MAC) UP 8015(SD9043MAC)
Views:  1230   Comments: 6
NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Title:  NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Description:  NS Southbound Local Freight Train A50 ( Birmingham to Attalla, Al. Turn ) rumbles by Milepost 122 on NS's Alabama Division AGS North District as they pass through Argo, Al. on their way back from Attalla, Al. to Norris Yard in Irondale, Al. with one of the few remaining SD50's still in Conrail paint leading the way
Photo Date:  6/13/2012  Upload Date: 6/13/2012 11:46:58 PM
Location:  Argo, AL
Author:  william davis
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 5443(SD50) NS 5510(GP38-2)
Views:  1065   Comments: 6
NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Title:  NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Description:  NS Southbound Local Freight Train A50 ( Birmingham to Attalla, Al. Turn ) passing through Argo, Al. on their way back from Attalla, Al. to Norris Yard in Irondale, Al. with one of the few remaining SD50's still in Conrail paint leading the way
Photo Date:  6/13/2012  Upload Date: 6/13/2012 10:31:29 PM
Location:  Argo, AL
Author:  william davis
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 5443(SD50) NS 5510(GP38-2)
Views:  1104   Comments: 12
NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Title:  NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Description:  NS Southbound Coal Train 730 passing through Argo, Al. with the CofG Heritage ES44AC leading the way, on their way to the R.D. Morrow Generating Plant AKA South Mississippi Electric Power Association for dumping
Photo Date:  7/13/2012  Upload Date: 7/13/2012 8:18:08 PM
Location:  Argo, AL
Author:  William H. Davis Jr.
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8101(ES44AC) NS 8010(ES44AC)
Views:  1432   Comments: 4
NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Title:  NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Description:  NS Northbound Freight Train 142 ( Birmingham, Al. to Elkhart, In. ) passing through Argo, Al. AKA Kudzu Hill, My thanks goes out to Jeffery Gordon for the heads up on 142 later this day after the power came in on 314 that morning
Photo Date:  6/22/2013  Upload Date: 6/23/2013 5:50:04 PM
Location:  Argo, AL
Author:  William H. Davis Jr.
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  FXE 4671(ES44AC) FXE 4054(SD70ACe) NS 9103(C40-9W)
Views:  1071   Comments: 10
NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Title:  NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Description:  NS Northbound Empty Coal Train 731 passing through Argo, Al. with the NYC Heritage SD70ACe leading the way
Photo Date:  6/26/2013  Upload Date: 6/26/2013 10:49:21 PM
Location:  Argo, AL
Author:  William H. Davis Jr.
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 1066(SD70ACe) NS 9829(C40-9W)
Views:  624   Comments: 0
NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Title:  NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Description:  NS Southbound Freight Train 129 ( Chattanooga, Tn. to Birmingham, Al. ) passing through Argo, Al. with a classic SD70 leading the way. Thanks to Mr. Jeffery Gordon letting me know about this train I was able to capture this gem before Irondale, Al. where I witnessed there would've been no sun for the shot in Irondale, Al. thanks to summertime build up clouds
Photo Date:  8/31/2013  Upload Date: 8/31/2013 6:43:01 PM
Location:  Argo, AL
Author:  William H. Davis Jr.
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 2502(SD70)
Views:  660   Comments: 2
NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Title:  NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Description:  NS Smuthbound Freight Train 179 ( Bellevue, Ohio to Birmingham, Al. ) passing through Argo, Al. AKA Kudzu Hill with a classic consist of a B32-8 leading a high hood GP38-2 & a C40-9, before this day it had been years since I caught a B32-8 leading a road train, only on locals & trbnsfers for the most part, NS dropped the 3 off the B32-8s & now instead of 3500 series they are 500 series numbered units, this days 179 had 113 cars for Norris Yard in Irondale, Al.
Photo Date:  10/18/2013  Upload Date: 10/21/2013 8:00:25 PM
Location:  Argo, AL
Author:  William H. Davis Jr.
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 525(B32-8) NS 5066(GP38-2) NS 8813(C40-9)
Views:  1443   Comments: 2
NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Title:  NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Description:  NS Northbound Freight Train M64 passing through Argo, Al. AKA Kudzu Hill with SD40-2 3298 leading 7 other units, not all of them running of course, just a power shuffle that NS decided to use M64 to move the power
Photo Date:  9/13/2014  Upload Date: 9/13/2014 9:11:30 PM
Location:  Argo, AL
Author:  William H. Davis Jr.
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 3298(SD40-2) NS 7103(GP60) NS 5829(GP38-3) NS 3304(SD40-2) NS 529(B32-8) GMTX 2180(GP38-2) NS 9002(C40-9W) NS 7571(ES40DC)
Views:  1646   Comments: 12
NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Title:  NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Description:  NS Southbound Freight Train 367 ( Chattanooga, Tn. to Birmingham, Al. ) passing through Argo, Al. AKA Kudzu Hill with the Interstate Heritage ES44AC NS 8105 leading the way
Photo Date:  10/17/2014  Upload Date: 10/17/2014 8:48:32 PM
Location:  Argo, AL
Author:  William H. Davis Jr.
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8105(ES44AC)
Views:  667   Comments: 6
Norfolk Southern's Heritage Locomotive Fleet
Title:  Norfolk Southern's Heritage Locomotive Fleet
Description:  NS Southbound Freight Train 367 ( Chattanooga, Tn. to Birmingham, Al. ) passing through Argo, Al. AKA Kudzu Hill with the Interstate Heritage ES44AC leading the way
Photo Date:  10/17/2014  Upload Date: 1/13/2015 12:56:24 AM
Location:  Argo, AL
Author:  William H. Davis Jr.
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8105(ES44AC)
Views:  647   Comments: 2
NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Title:  NS'S Alabama Division AGS North District
Description:  NS Southbound Freight Train 367 ( Chattanooga, Tn. to Birmingham, Al. ) passing through Argo, Al. AKA Kudzu Hill with the Interstate Heritage ES44AC NS 8105 leading the way.
Photo Date:  10/17/2014  Upload Date: 10/17/2014 7:47:11 PM
Location:  Argo, AL
Author:  William H. Davis Jr.
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  NS 8105(ES44AC)
Views:  662   Comments: 6

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