Railfanning the diamonds of Cordele Ga.! {11/19/22}
Duriel Shepherd Duriel Shepherd
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 Published On Jan 26, 2023

Welcome to the city of Cordele Georgia!
On this BRISK cold morning, at 7:37 AM, NS train 29F makes an appearance with foreign power- a UP gevo and t4 sd70, along with an NS gp38-2.

Following the passing of NS 29F is CSX L739-19 with GP40-2 6965 switching out cars with the Heart of Geogria, who wasnt running at all that day. He would move backa nd forth switching out cars and wait at the signal before continuing to wait for another NS train.

NS train 287 to be exact. I got a really neat shot with him passing in the background and the front of L739 in shot. Just love a good sounding idling EMD. After he passed by L739 would continue his work and move out of the way for yet another train.

CSX M514-19 with 4 engines, one being a yn2 dash8 wide cab, somewhat rare.

after him L739 emerges from the back and finally crosses over the diamonds to do his duteis as a local.

After L739 camean NS train i didnt catch the callsign for. all autoracks with a gevo leader.

After him me and my buddies left town for lunch and went to Rebecca Ga., highspeed hotspot. not long after came
CSX I025-18 hauling tail with racks and stacks.

about 45 minutes later came CSX M847-17, fast manifest with a cool sounding k5la horn.

After returning form rebecca i would miss the catch of the day on CSX M515-16, manifest train with a very uncommon engine to see now a-days- an ex-southern pacific SD40-2R trailing the lead engines- man i wish i were there a minute faster.

After he slipped through came NS train 91Z with an NS leader and UP trailing slipped by with empty herzog ballast hoppers.

It would be a bit later till the next train. Then came my first CSX grain train catch, CSX G351-17. Slow but steady.

After him I decided to get a quick new angle, and that I did. After resetting my position across the diamonds came
NS train 152, manifest with a dash9 leader, slamming on the diamonds. Ears were ringing afterwards.

Just a minute after 152 passed by came CSX L729-19, empty rock hoppers with a friendly engineer with engines chugging away.

A while later an interesting high-wide load would come through, a giant electrical transformer on CSX train
MM605-18.

And last but not least, and certainly a very interesting sounding one at that.
CSX train U742-19, recrewed local with a long hood forward gevo and a badly but erie sounding K5HL or K5H horn and EMD mechanical bell. Ive never had this many cool and unusual catches before.

Thank you all for watching!
Shout out to BNSFBISHOP and his buddies that joined!

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