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3/28/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Pine Belt Southern Railroad Company
Model:GE B23-7Built As:SOU 3986 (B23-7)
Serial Number:41995Order No:351-39866
Frame Number:Built:1/1979
Notes:ex NS
Other locos with this serial:  NS 3986(B23-7) SOU 3986(B23-7) SQVR 3986(B23-7) PBRR 3986(B23-7) HMCR 3986(B23-7)
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PBSR train is headed out of the transfer and to the CSX mainline for the short trip to the actual Lafayette Branch.  The wait for CSX trains could at times take hours, as this was not a dispatcher priority on the AWP-WofA sub on the right of the picture.
Title:  PBSR train is headed out of the transfer and to the CSX mainline for the short trip to the actual Lafayette Branch. The wait for CSX trains could at times take hours, as this was not a dispatcher priority on the AWP-WofA sub on the right of the picture.
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Photo Date:  1/1/2004  Upload Date: 6/28/2010 12:26:37 AM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  455   Comments: 0
PBSR working the Opelika transfer swapping loads for empties in the harsh shadows of a mid summer sun.
Title:  PBSR working the Opelika transfer swapping loads for empties in the harsh shadows of a mid summer sun.
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Photo Date:  1/1/2004  Upload Date: 6/27/2010 11:44:50 PM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
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PBSR 3986 waits at the Opelika transfer for the NS local to drop empties for it to move back to LaFayette.  I watched for the handover of operations from NS to PBSR and only after seeing this unit and knowing NS had long completed a roster purge of B23-7
Title:  PBSR 3986 waits at the Opelika transfer for the NS local to drop empties for it to move back to LaFayette. I watched for the handover of operations from NS to PBSR and only after seeing this unit and knowing NS had long completed a roster purge of B23-7
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Photo Date:  1/1/2004  Upload Date: 6/27/2010 11:12:30 PM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  351   Comments: 1
Prior to the start of the "Lafayette Branch" operation of the PBSR, the ex NS GE that became synonomus with the operation worked on the "Hurtsboro line".  Here it sits with hoppers full of glass making grade silica (sand) at Seale, AL
Title:  Prior to the start of the "Lafayette Branch" operation of the PBSR, the ex NS GE that became synonomus with the operation worked on the "Hurtsboro line". Here it sits with hoppers full of glass making grade silica (sand) at Seale, AL
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Photo Date:  1/1/2004  Upload Date: 6/27/2010 11:12:31 PM
Location:  Seale, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  667   Comments: 1
PBSR is moving the empty woodchip cars around the inside track of the transfer, headed toward the CSX side.  After dropping the cars, he will then shove out the loads and swap them for the woodracks in the storage track
Title:  PBSR is moving the empty woodchip cars around the inside track of the transfer, headed toward the CSX side. After dropping the cars, he will then shove out the loads and swap them for the woodracks in the storage track
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Photo Date:  1/1/2004  Upload Date: 6/28/2010 12:26:30 AM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  313   Comments: 0
The GE shoves over the CSX-NS diamond.  Signal work on CSX has seen the SOU signal protecting nrothbound CSX movements replaced by new signals at the end of the newly installed "pushbutton" signalled siding.
Title:  The GE shoves over the CSX-NS diamond. Signal work on CSX has seen the SOU signal protecting nrothbound CSX movements replaced by new signals at the end of the newly installed "pushbutton" signalled siding.
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Photo Date:  1/1/2004  Upload Date: 6/28/2010 12:21:32 AM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  699   Comments: 1
PBRR 3986
Title:  PBRR 3986
Description:  Still lettered for Pine Belt Southern, this ex-NS/nee-SOU B23-7 was on the SQVR at Bridgeport. She later became HMCR 3986.
Photo Date:  6/29/2006  Upload Date: 7/13/2020 8:18:02 PM
Location:  Bridgeport, AL
Author:  Brian Woodruff
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Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  158   Comments: 0
PBSR 3986 works its interchange cars and NS tie gons at the Opelika intechange in the early 1990s
Title:  PBSR 3986 works its interchange cars and NS tie gons at the Opelika intechange in the early 1990s
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Photo Date:  8/20/2007  Upload Date: 10/17/2009 2:49:31 PM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  288   Comments: 0
PBSR 3986 works NS tie gons at Opelika as it prepares to switch out interchange cars.
Title:  PBSR 3986 works NS tie gons at Opelika as it prepares to switch out interchange cars.
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Photo Date:  8/20/2007  Upload Date: 10/17/2009 2:49:14 PM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
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Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  280   Comments: 0
PBRR (SQVR) 3986
Title:  PBRR (SQVR) 3986
Description:  Sequatchie Valley Railroad
Photo Date:  4/20/2008  Upload Date: 4/25/2008 10:45:08 PM
Location:  Bridgeport, AL
Author:  John Higginson
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  467   Comments: 2
PBSR 3986 leads a twenty car train of woodchip cars and typical Southern pulpwood cars on its way to interchange with NS at Opelika.  Pinebelt Southern RR never bothered to even add correct reporting marks to this unit nor alter its NS livery.
Title:  PBSR 3986 leads a twenty car train of woodchip cars and typical Southern pulpwood cars on its way to interchange with NS at Opelika. Pinebelt Southern RR never bothered to even add correct reporting marks to this unit nor alter its NS livery.
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Photo Date:  6/20/2008  Upload Date: 6/21/2007 1:07:28 AM
Location:  Opelika, AL
Author:  Hank Stephens
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  598   Comments: 0
PBRR 3986 parked in South Pittsburg
Title:  PBRR 3986 parked in South Pittsburg
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Photo Date:  3/23/2010  Upload Date: 3/27/2010 11:55:03 PM
Location:  South Pittsburg, TN
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
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Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  262   Comments: 0
Ex-NS/ Ex-Pine Belt Southern B23-7
Title:  Ex-NS/ Ex-Pine Belt Southern B23-7
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Photo Date:  3/23/2010  Upload Date: 3/27/2010 11:55:48 PM
Location:  South Pittsburg, TN
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
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Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  370   Comments: 1
Former NS B23-7 parked in South Pittsburg
Title:  Former NS B23-7 parked in South Pittsburg
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Photo Date:  3/23/2010  Upload Date: 3/27/2010 11:55:51 PM
Location:  South Pittsburg, TN
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
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Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  293   Comments: 0
PBRR 3986
Title:  PBRR 3986
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/23/2010  Upload Date: 3/29/2010 9:37:09 PM
Location:  Jasper, TN
Author:  Raymond Stewart
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Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  257   Comments: 1
PBRR 3986
Title:  PBRR 3986
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/23/2010  Upload Date: 3/29/2010 9:37:10 PM
Location:  Jasper, TN
Author:  Raymond Stewart
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Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  284   Comments: 1
PBRR 3986
Title:  PBRR 3986
Description:  PBRR ex.Norfolk Southern B23-7 3986 sits in an industrial park in Jasper.
Photo Date:  4/7/2010  Upload Date: 4/8/2010 12:56:15 AM
Location:  Jasper, TN
Author:  John Owens
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Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  239   Comments: 1
PBRR (ex NS) 3986 quitely sits in yard as a BNSF coal awaits clearence to proceed
Title:  PBRR (ex NS) 3986 quitely sits in yard as a BNSF coal awaits clearence to proceed
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Photo Date:  8/26/2011  Upload Date: 8/27/2011 11:49:50 PM
Location:  Bridgeport, AL
Author:  Dave Mullison
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  334   Comments: 1
PBRR 3986
Title:  PBRR 3986
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/26/2011  Upload Date: 8/27/2011 11:54:01 PM
Location:  Bridgeport, AL
Author:  Dave Mullison
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  331   Comments: 0
Former NS B23-7 resting in the Bridgeport yard
Title:  Former NS B23-7 resting in the Bridgeport yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/16/2011  Upload Date: 10/18/2011 5:30:39 PM
Location:  Bridgeport, AL
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories:  Scenic,Night,Action
Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  456   Comments: 2
Former NS B23-7 resting in the Bridgeport yard
Title:  Former NS B23-7 resting in the Bridgeport yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/16/2011  Upload Date: 10/18/2011 5:30:45 PM
Location:  Bridgeport, AL
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories:  Scenic,Night,Action
Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  234   Comments: 1
PBRR 3986 resting under a starry sky
Title:  PBRR 3986 resting under a starry sky
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/16/2011  Upload Date: 10/18/2011 5:30:52 PM
Location:  Bridgeport, AL
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories:  Scenic,Night,Action
Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  253   Comments: 2
PBRR 3986 waiting off to the side as a CSX train streaks through
Title:  PBRR 3986 waiting off to the side as a CSX train streaks through
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/16/2011  Upload Date: 10/18/2011 5:30:59 PM
Location:  Bridgeport, AL
Author:  Nikos Kavoori
Categories:  Scenic,Night,Action
Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  266   Comments: 1
SQVR 3986
Title:  SQVR 3986
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/24/2014  Upload Date: 9/5/2014 6:33:37 PM
Location:  Bridgeport, AL
Author:  Zachary Walters
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7) NS 3986(B23-7) SQVR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  555   Comments: 0
NS 3986
Title:  NS 3986
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/25/2015  Upload Date: 2/9/2015 2:54:18 PM
Location:  Bridgeport, AL
Author:  Chris Wallace
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 3986(B23-7) SQVR 3986(B23-7) PBRR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  991   Comments: 0
PBRR 3986
Title:  PBRR 3986
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/17/2015  Upload Date: 5/8/2017 11:43:54 PM
Location:  Bridgeport, AL
Author:  Adam Finger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PBRR 3986(B23-7) SQVR 3986(B23-7)
Views:  472   Comments: 0


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