NS local switching in Durham nc with NS 5835 in the lead 8/19/23🇺🇸

Norfork southern local switching cars in the small NS yard in Durham nc with NS locomotives GP38-2S 5835 ,, 5326 , GP60 7125 and GP38-2 5354 I hope yall enjoy the video please comment share and subscribe for more have a blessed night!!🌙 ✝️

[@backalleyrailroading2835]

Love seeing the local action and switching moves.. Great video bro... Yeah, I saw you in AMP's comment section so jumped over to your channel and subbed for future content !!

[@tomt9543]

I worked at Durham yard in the mechanical dept. in the late 80’s, and have fond memories of the place! Two things that stick in my mind are the tendency of the yard switcher to use the mainline as an extra yard track to kick cars into. The mainline from one end of the yard to the other was a big bowl, and the switcher would kick cars to the mainline with no handbrake applied. The cars would rollout onto the mainline, slowly pick up speed, and disappear around the curve! Waiting a few minutes, the car would come rolling back into view, eventually slow to a stop and repeat the whole cycle again! The other incident happened late one night while inspecting a cut of cars on the track beside the road. A Doberman from a house across the road saw me and went into attack mode! My location beside a loaded coal hopper proved handy, and I quickly climbed up the ladder and got on top of the load. The dog evidently got tired of being repeatedly hit in the head with chunks of West Virginia’s finest, after several minutes, trotted back across the road! The last memory involves the men’s room in the metal yard office. A convenience store across the road was a magnet for trouble, sometimes involving gunshots. Anyone who seated their self on the toilet and took the time to look left and right would find a bullet hole through the wall on the right, and a matching bullet hole in the divider on the left, both at exactly head level!

[@seaboardsystemproductions9714]

@@tomt9543 Wow well thank you for all your hard work in that yard I find it quite coool and I love seeing the GPs there switching cars. Wow so those cars would go a roll then come back very nice those rolling cars are cool guess you can do that with a small yard like that one. Dang wow I'm glad you could get on top of that loaded coal car with that dog trying to get at you. They still have coal cars in that yard also I see a lot of 2 bay N&W cement cars too I believe that yard is a former southern yard if I'm not wrong.

[@tomt9543]

@@seaboardsystemproductions9714 Those cars would roll back and forth several times before settling in the middle of the bowl! It was indeed a Southern Ry. yard (NC RR Co.). I hired out with Southern Ry in 1979 at the then new Linwood Yard. My first day was 6/11/1979 - the first day of operation for that facility! A lot has happened since then! The coal at Durham goes down the “State University Railroad “ line to UNC Chapel Hill, that branch leaving the NC line east of Hillsboro.

[@backalleyrailroading2835]

Love hearing the stories... Very interesting !!