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CSX EMD Model MP15AC Yard Locomotives Number 1137

We were taken up into the CSXT Control Tower in Groups to prevent overcrowding and to prevent any interruption of the Tower Operator Duties.

 

In November 2005, I took an AMTRAK Train from Tampa Union Station in Florida to Hamlet, North, Carolina to attend a Summer Convention of the ACL/SAL Historical Society in and around the Hamlet Area Hamlet Metro Area, One of the sites we visited was CSX Hump Classification Yard Hamlet.

 

Tower Mailing Address: 127 CSX Drive, Marks Creek, NC 28345

 

This Yard is relies on Gravity, a Ladder of Switches and Speed Retarders to assemble trains destined for all parts of the US and Canada on an assortment of tracks, one track for each destination. or Intermediate Yard.

 

This particular photograph shows CSX EMD Model MP50AC Endcab Switcher Number 1137. This Locomotive we Built by the Electromotive Division of General Motors for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in 1971.

 

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Uploaded on January 13, 2020
Taken on October 28, 2005