Georgia Power Loco€¦ · roster in Atlanta. • The locomotive picked up hoppers at the Northside...
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Georgia Power LocoBill Volkmer
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Foreword
• Russ Davies (out in California) is going through the photo collection of the late Vitally Uzoff and scanning them for the PRS Photo Archives.
• He posted a “mystery photo” this week of a freight motor that he didn’t recognize and neither did most anyone else he sent it to.
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I Instantly Recognized It!
• The locomotive was the last remaining electric rail vehicle on the Georgia Power Company roster in Atlanta.
• The locomotive picked up hoppers at the Northside generating plant off of the Atlantic Coast Line and shunted them into the plant for unloading.
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Four years trying to catch it in action
• I attended college less than a mile from the location and during four years, I never once managed to catch the unit in action.
• So I shot it over the fence and through the gate.
• Here they are:
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Then two years after graduating
• I dropped into Atlanta for a day of railfanning and whoopie!
• I caught the unit in action.
• Here Tis….
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December 19, 1960
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Epilogue
• I just checked the satillite map imagery and the entire area has changed radically.
• The ACL branch is long gone and there is no trace of the power plant.
• I can’t even figure out where it was located! • Time marches upward and outward.
Bill Volkmer December 11, 2009