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By:Hank Stephens
Dates:1/1/1986 - 1/1/2010
Album Info:Georgia Southwestern RR (GSWR) is a CSX regional spinoff of the mid 1980s that operated several.lines in South and Central Georgia. It became independent in the new millineum, only to be acquired by the Genesee and Wyoming group of railroads in 2008. These are pictures taken between 1986 and Present.
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Photo Date:  1/1/1986  Upload Date: 11/30/2008 5:59:46 PM
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Photo Date:  1/1/1986  Upload Date: 11/30/2008 4:40:01 PM
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Photo Date:  1/1/1986  Upload Date: 11/30/2008 4:39:47 PM
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Photo Date:  1/1/1986  Upload Date: 11/30/2008 4:41:06 PM
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GSWR 4005 rests at new yard location
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Photo Date:  1/1/1986  Upload Date: 11/29/2008 5:48:14 PM
Location:  Smithville, GA
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Locomotives:  GSWR 4005(GP40)
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Photo Date:  1/1/1986  Upload Date: 11/29/2008 5:48:03 PM
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FURX 816101 is typical of lease covered hoppers used by GSWR to haul peanut products out of South Georgia
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Photo Date:  1/1/1986  Upload Date: 11/30/2008 6:02:26 PM
Location:  Smithville, GA
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GSWR 4167 works with GP38-3 mother and a ex-NS GP40 in Columbus, GA.  This GE built slug got a GP9 dynamic brake before going to work for GSWR and owner Railtex.
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Location:  Columbus, GA
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GSWR 10245 is a former L&N pulpwood rack used by GSWR in its early days to service several pulpwood yards in South Georgia feeding the Gilman Paper Company in St. Marys, GA
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Photo Date:  1/1/1986  Upload Date: 11/30/2008 6:02:57 PM
Location:  Columbus, GA
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GSWR 3813 is turning the south leg of the wye  linking the GAAB (former CofGA Eufala line) to the NS Americus to Albany main. The hopper in the background sits on the north leg.
Title:  GSWR 3813 is turning the south leg of the wye linking the GAAB (former CofGA Eufala line) to the NS Americus to Albany main. The hopper in the background sits on the north leg.
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Photo Date:  1/1/1986  Upload Date: 11/30/2008 6:03:16 PM
Location:  Smithville, GA
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Locomotives:  GSWR 3813(GP38-2)
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GSWR 1900 leads the GSWR Columbus-Albany road train through Americus on NS trackage rights.  GSWR operated the Columbus to Americus line and used NS track to reach the wye at Smithville, GA to access the GAAB to Eufala and Bainbridge.
Title:  GSWR 1900 leads the GSWR Columbus-Albany road train through Americus on NS trackage rights. GSWR operated the Columbus to Americus line and used NS track to reach the wye at Smithville, GA to access the GAAB to Eufala and Bainbridge.
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Photo Date:  1/1/1986  Upload Date: 11/29/2008 5:48:32 PM
Location:  Americus, GA
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Locomotives:  GSWR 1900(SD9)
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GSWR road train runs by the Americus agency in the late 1990s headed to Smithville, GA and its own trackage.  GSWR did contract hauling for NS out of Columbus, GA.  The train would stop at Americus to pick up and continue south.
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Photo Date:  1/1/1986  Upload Date: 11/29/2008 5:48:24 PM
Location:  Americus, GA
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Photo Date:  1/1/1986  Upload Date: 1/26/2009 6:11:12 PM
Location:  Americus, GA
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GSWR sand and fuel facilty at new base of operations in Smithville.  GSWR lost its original HQ yard in Americus to state officials who recreated it as the Heart of Georgia(HOG).  GSWR built a new yard and suitable if not spartan services at its new Smithv
Title:  GSWR sand and fuel facilty at new base of operations in Smithville. GSWR lost its original HQ yard in Americus to state officials who recreated it as the Heart of Georgia(HOG). GSWR built a new yard and suitable if not spartan services at its new Smithv
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Photo Date:  1/1/1986  Upload Date: 11/30/2008 6:03:31 PM
Location:  Smithville, GA
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GSWR 1900 sits ready to haul rock to Bainbridge GA in late 1990s.  This was a former DMIR unit
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Photo Date:  1/1/1986  Upload Date: 11/30/2008 6:03:50 PM
Location:  Smithville, GA
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  GSWR 1900(SD9)
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