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Owner: Great Walton
Model:EMD GP9Built As:WM 25 (GP9)
Serial Number:19548Order No:5344
Frame Number:5344-1Built:5/1954
Other locos with this serial:  WM 6400(GP9) GRWR 6400(GP9) GWRR 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
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Great Walton Rail
Title:  Great Walton Rail
Description:  I was fortunate to ride along with the crew on two seperate occasions. This locomotive also had a cameo role in the movie "My Cousin Vinny", which was filmed nearby. It is now preserved in its original Western Maryland paint scheme on the Georges Creek Railway in Maryland.
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/13/2006 8:54:00 PM
Location:  Covington, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  2753   Comments: 0
GRWR 6400
Title:  GRWR 6400
Description:  SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:00 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  241   Comments: 0
GRWR 6400
Title:  GRWR 6400
Description:  SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:03 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  303   Comments: 0
GRWR 6400
Title:  GRWR 6400
Description:  SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen. Judging by the stray truck, it looks like this was also the site of a derailment.
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:07 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  270   Comments: 0
GRWR 6400
Title:  GRWR 6400
Description:  Switching the grain elevator. I still remember the pine tree scent from those chip hoppers!
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:10 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  177   Comments: 0
GRWR 6400
Title:  GRWR 6400
Description:  SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen and switching the grain elevator.
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:18 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  208   Comments: 0
Pulling upgrade from the Alcovy River crossing
Title:  Pulling upgrade from the Alcovy River crossing
Description:  Southbound Great Walton train heading the NS interchange at Machen
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:09:45 PM
Location:  Starrsville, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WM 6400(GP9) GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  195   Comments: 0
It's train time in Mansfield. Today, a shared-use path is in this spot.
Title:  It's train time in Mansfield. Today, a shared-use path is in this spot.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:23 PM
Location:  Mansfield, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WM 6400(GP9) GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  310   Comments: 0
GRWR 6400
Title:  GRWR 6400
Description:  NB Great Walton Rail train heading from the NS interchange with empty chip hoppers for Covington
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:34 PM
Location:  Farrar, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  185   Comments: 0
Site of an earlier derailment
Title:  Site of an earlier derailment
Description:  That derailed hopper body with trucks removed stayed there for an least another 10 years
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:38 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  211   Comments: 0
A quintessential southern shortline image
Title:  A quintessential southern shortline image
Description:  SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:42 PM
Location:  Farrar, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  176   Comments: 0
Arriving at the NS interchange
Title:  Arriving at the NS interchange
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:46 PM
Location:  Machen, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WM 6400(GP9) GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  212   Comments: 0
Great Walton at NS interchange
Title:  Great Walton at NS interchange
Description:  Great Walton Rail train, having picked up the empty woodchip hoppers from NS, is preparing to return north to Covington.
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:49 PM
Location:  Machen, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  185   Comments: 0
Great Walton at NS interchange
Title:  Great Walton at NS interchange
Description:  Prior to 1959, this line, as part of the Central of Georgia Ry, continued south to Eatonton
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:53 PM
Location:  Machen, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  173   Comments: 0
Site of a previous derailment
Title:  Site of a previous derailment
Description:  SB Great Walton Rail train heading to the NS interchange in Machen
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 8:02:56 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  227   Comments: 0
Great Walton Rail- I can still smell the pine aroma of those wood chips
Title:  Great Walton Rail- I can still smell the pine aroma of those wood chips
Description:  Brakemen 'Buzz' is guiding chop nosed GP-9 #6400 backwards as it retrieves empty covered hoppers at the feed mill. It is now preserved in its original Western Maryland paint scheme on the Georges Creek Railway in Maryland.
Photo Date:  8/5/1995  Upload Date: 4/13/2006 9:14:48 PM
Location:  Newborn, GA
Author:  Eric Rickert
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WM 6400(GP9) GRWR 6400(GP9) WM 25(GP9)
Views:  1350   Comments: 0
Still in full Chessie paint, ex WM chop nosed geep works with former CNW unit as primary power this day.
Title:  Still in full Chessie paint, ex WM chop nosed geep works with former CNW unit as primary power this day.
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/2000  Upload Date: 9/11/2010 11:50:42 AM
Location:  Social Circle, GA
Author:  William Wes Downs
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) GRWR 6555(GP9)
Views:  683   Comments: 2
GRWR 6400
Title:  GRWR 6400
Description:  Things have changed in the three ears since this picture was taken. The 6400 has been set free to a Western Maryland museum while the former South Carolina Central #6555 has been painted into Great Walton colors.
Photo Date:  3/24/2004  Upload Date: 4/21/2009 3:49:02 PM
Location:  Social Circle, GA
Author:  Joseph Hinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9) GRWR 6555(GP9)
Views:  641   Comments: 0
Worse for wear
Title:  Worse for wear
Description:  This tired chop top sits inthe moring sunin Hamlet at the back shops. I hear she's headed to Cumberland to return to her home rails.
Photo Date:  5/10/2008  Upload Date: 5/10/2008 4:19:52 PM
Location:  Hamlet, NC
Author:  Rick Tufts
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GRWR 6400(GP9)
Views:  889   Comments: 3
GRWR geeps show their heritage as they roll by the service tracks on the Social Circle line
Title:  GRWR geeps show their heritage as they roll by the service tracks on the Social Circle line
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/2010  Upload Date: 9/11/2010 11:50:44 AM
Location:  Social Circle, GA
Author:  William Wes Downs
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GRWR 4537(GP9R) GRWR 6400(GP9)
Views:  568   Comments: 3


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