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By:Mick Nussbaum
Dates:8/22/2008 - 8/24/2008
Album Info:Series of photos from trip to Paducah, Kentucky to attend Illinois Central Historical Society Convention, with visits to the P&L Railroad business train and locomotive shops as well as the VMV shops of National Railway Equipment company, and three different railroad museums.
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Empty coal drag
Title:  Empty coal drag
Description:  Empty coal train in the siding waiting its turn to head north.
Photo Date:  8/22/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 9:07:57 AM
Location:  New Harmony, MS
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Locomotives:  BNSF 9980(SD70MAC)
Views:  294   Comments: 0
Southbound coal train
Title:  Southbound coal train
Description:  Coal train heading south in the BNSF mainline above Tupelo, MS.
Photo Date:  8/22/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 9:08:28 AM
Location:  New Harmony, MS
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5981(ES44AC)
Views:  258   Comments: 0
Time to go
Title:  Time to go
Description:  Empty coal train heading out after meeting two southbound loads.
Photo Date:  8/22/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 9:09:03 AM
Location:  New Harmony, MS
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Locomotives:  BNSF 9980(SD70MAC)
Views:  324   Comments: 0
Dyersburg turn
Title:  Dyersburg turn
Description:  Resting in town, the Dyersburg local and its caboose.
Photo Date:  8/22/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 9:09:54 AM
Location:  Dyersburg, TN
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Locomotives:  IC 3123(GP40R)
Views:  430   Comments: 0
On display
Title:  On display
Description:  P&L business train on display adjacent to the VMV shops for the ICHS Convention
Photo Date:  8/22/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 9:10:42 AM
Location:  Paducah, KY
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Locomotives:  PAL 2123(GP40-2R)
Views:  457   Comments: 0
Shop Switcher
Title:  Shop Switcher
Description:  VMV Paducahbuilt switch engine outside the plant.
Photo Date:  8/22/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 9:12:45 AM
Location:  Paducah, KY
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Locomotives:  VMVX 1425(SW14)
Views:  445   Comments: 0
Big power
Title:  Big power
Description:  Leased to the P&L to help out, #122 sits outside the locomotive shops.
Photo Date:  8/22/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 9:14:32 AM
Location:  Paducah, KY
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Locomotives:  CEFX 122(SD9043MAC)
Views:  410   Comments: 0
Business train
Title:  Business train
Description:  P&L business train on display adjacent to the VMV shops for the ICHS Convention
Photo Date:  8/23/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 9:10:17 AM
Location:  Paducah, KY
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Locomotives:  PAL 2123(GP40-2R)
Views:  378   Comments: 0
VMV
Title:  VMV
Description:  Main entrance to the VMV shops (former IC shops).
Photo Date:  8/23/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 12:16:16 PM
Location:  Paducah, KY
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Views:  217   Comments: 0
Main Generators
Title:  Main Generators
Description:  Locomotive main generators components being rebuilt.
Photo Date:  8/23/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 12:17:38 PM
Location:  Paducah, KY
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Views:  203   Comments: 0
Engine block
Title:  Engine block
Description:  Engine block in the first stage of being rebuilt.
Photo Date:  8/23/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 12:19:00 PM
Location:  Paducah, KY
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Views:  220   Comments: 0
Rebuilt
Title:  Rebuilt
Description:  rebuilt prime mover awaiting its turn in the test cell at the VMV plant.
Photo Date:  8/23/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 9:11:17 AM
Location:  Paducah, KY
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Views:  228   Comments: 0
Test Cell
Title:  Test Cell
Description:  Prime mover test cell inside the VMV plant.
Photo Date:  8/23/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 9:12:12 AM
Location:  Paducah, KY
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Views:  212   Comments: 0
Waiting their turn
Title:  Waiting their turn
Description:  Two new graduated from the VMV shops about to be released
Photo Date:  8/23/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 12:19:37 PM
Location:  Paducah, KY
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Views:  221   Comments: 0
Wheels
Title:  Wheels
Description:  Newly refurbished wheelsets at VMV
Photo Date:  8/23/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 12:20:35 PM
Location:  Paducah, KY
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Views:  180   Comments: 0
Big Red
Title:  Big Red
Description:  Very first SD9043MSC out of the VMV shops for the Indiana Railroad
Photo Date:  8/23/2008  Upload Date: 9/18/2008 10:36:29 PM
Location:  Paducah, KY
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Locomotives:  INRD 9001(SD9043MAC)
Views:  1019   Comments: 3
3/4 view
Title:  3/4 view
Description:  Very first SD9043MAC out of the VMV shops for the Indiana Railroad
Photo Date:  8/23/2008  Upload Date: 9/18/2008 10:37:46 PM
Location:  Paducah, KY
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Locomotives:  INRD 9001(SD9043MAC)
Views:  1005   Comments: 3
First one
Title:  First one
Description:  Very first SD9043MAC out of the VMV shops for the Indiana Railroad
Photo Date:  8/23/2008  Upload Date: 9/18/2008 10:39:28 PM
Location:  Paducah, KY
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Locomotives:  INRD 9001(SD9043MAC)
Views:  747   Comments: 1
Ready for Paint
Title:  Ready for Paint
Description:  One of the Indiana Railroads new SD9043MACs being finished up about ready to head over to the paint shop.
Photo Date:  8/23/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 12:22:09 PM
Location:  Paducah, KY
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Locomotives:  INRD 9004(SD9043MAC)
Views:  962   Comments: 1
Export Power
Title:  Export Power
Description:  ALCOA #990-000 narrow gauge locomotive awiting export to Kenya. At the VMV shops.
Photo Date:  8/23/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 9:13:25 AM
Location:  Paducah, KY
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Views:  217   Comments: 0
Ready for Export
Title:  Ready for Export
Description:  ALCOA #990-000 & 990-001 narrow gauge locomotive awiting export to Kenya. At the VMV shops.
Photo Date:  8/23/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 9:14:00 AM
Location:  Paducah, KY
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Views:  360   Comments: 1
Cardinal power
Title:  Cardinal power
Description:  Painted for the Louisville Cardinals, this unit is on the servicing track at the shops.
Photo Date:  8/23/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 9:15:05 AM
Location:  Paducah, KY
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Locomotives:  PAL 3801(GP38-2)
Views:  433   Comments: 0
West Tennessee Power
Title:  West Tennessee Power
Description:  West Tennessee locomotive tied down near the old GM&O Iselin Shops.
Photo Date:  8/24/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 9:15:40 AM
Location:  Jackson, TN
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Locomotives:  WTNN 4081(B23-7)
Views:  505   Comments: 0
Canadian in the south
Title:  Canadian in the south
Description:  West Tennessee power resting.
Photo Date:  8/24/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 9:16:05 AM
Location:  Jackson, TN
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Locomotives:  WTNN 3560(M420W)
Views:  434   Comments: 1
OOPS
Title:  OOPS
Description:  West Tennessee M420W dead.
Photo Date:  8/24/2008  Upload Date: 9/23/2008 9:16:49 AM
Location:  Jackson, TN
Author:  Mick Nussbaum
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Locomotives:  WTNN 3510(M420W)
Views:  769   Comments: 1


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