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Norfolk Southern’s switcher in Tennille, Ga., scoots out of the way as the Sandersville interchange train prepares to enter the yard (ABOVE). All three Sandersville jobs that work each day will make a run to NS to drop cars. The end-cab switcher fl eet is maintained in the shop near downtown Sand- ersville (BELOW). The railroad rosters four SW1500s, one SW1200, and two slugs. STEVE BARRY PHOTOS
along with my brother, Bruce. We were com- ing down from Macon, Ga., where we had looked for something running on the Georgia Central. There wasn’t anything running any- where near Macon, so we decided to regroup and hit the Sandersville. As we approached the north end of the line, we spotted SW1500 No. 1100 and a slug working at Imerys Pig- ments & Additives. Figuring it wouldn’t be long before he came out, we waited. The wait wasn’t long as the switchers came out with one car in tow. Work on this end of the line was not done, however, as the train backed into the adja- cent Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Company to do a bit of switching. This didn’t take long, either, and after shuffling cars at the small yard adjacent to the two industries, the loco- motives continued on their way, now with a sizable train, to Sandersville. As the train gets closer to downtown Sand- ersville, it passes through a residential sec-
tion of the town. And when I say it passes through, I mean it passes through — right down the middle of the street. After passing the shop complex in downtown Sandersville, the train paused at the yard on the southeast side of town to shuffle more cars. This yard is adjacent to the railroad’s bulk transfer facility, as well as Weyerhauser and a short branch serving a plethora of clay and pig- ment facilities. Once the switching was done, the train proceeded on to the NS (ex-Central of Georgia) interchange at Tennille. When we got to Tennille, we couldn’t quite
figure out what was going on. Norfolk South- ern had a crew in town doing switching, and it was on the one track the Sandersville train would need to use to access the yard. NS quickly backed into the yard and changed tracks, however, so the interchange traffic could come in. Once the interchange was done, we head- ed back to the Sandersville shop, where the
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