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Central of Georgia Classics

            A solo Central of Georgia ES44AC leads a westbound into the siding at Bon Air on their busy Birmingham to Columbus main in the golden hours of a summer evening. They’ll also drop down the connection track into Childersburg to set out a cut of coal hoppers for interchange with the Southern Railway, which are destined for Alabama Power’s nearby Plant Gaston at Wilsonville. While the Southern thru Childersburg is a sleepy secondary main, the Central of Georgia is a busy high-roller forwarding midwest traffic to Florida and the port of Savannah. While modern signals are proliferating everywhere on the Class One railroads, it’s nice to see the vintage searchlight and dwarf signal still directing traffic here.

Well, one can dream for a minute anyway right? Of course this is the Central of Georgia heritage unit running as the radio unit on the rear of coal train 74G, which loaded west of Birmingham near Parrish. Two NS GE’s are on the head end, but the conductor is riding in the cab of the radio unit for the shove down to the former Southern. From there it will be a short run across the Coosa River to the power plant at Wilsonville.

And the Central of Georgia District has now definitely fallen into the sleepy secondary main category, with just one thru freight in each direction daily. A weeknight local turn out of Sylacauga to Birmingham and the occasional Wilsonville coal trains round out the current traffic volume. Likewise, the former Southern is just a branchline for all intents now with the stretch from Talladega to Anniston mothballed (and the stretch from Anniston to Rome, Georgia having been abandoned and torn out for many years.) Local A84 which runs six days a week and the Wilsonville coal trains round out the traffic on it.

Taken in: United States / Alabama / Bon Air (show map)

Taken on: July 2, 2020

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