CSX Coal Train that runs Backwards
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- What happens when a shipment of coal is headed for a destination 180 land miles away, but there are no railroad tracks directly running there? This video will showcase an example of one of these scenarios, along with a very unique event along the way. Follow along through northern Georgia, on CSX's W&A Subdivision, former Western & Atlantic Railroad trackage. This is a quick snippet of a trip I made to this territory, that which I covered at length a couple years back. I’ve linked that video here.
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Yessir awesome video and nice catch on CSX 595 being the only CSX motor with a K5LLa
Thank you friend, it was most certainly a surprise.
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Good info! Glad you and Andrew got to see that
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Extremely interesting subject and an excellently made video. Thanks, Dakota.
Thank You yourself, Mike. Glad it was enjoyable.
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Jack, do it again 🎵
Unusual horn for the engine on the last train.
Supposedly it’s a Nathan K5LLA. CSX hardly has any of those.
Until 1985 or so this run could have gone north from Corbin to the most obscure junction of Sinks (just north of Livingston, KY), taken the old Lebanon Branch west thru Junction City (CNO&TP connection), then Lebanon, then across what is now Kentucky Railway Museum trackage to Lebanon Junction on the original L&N line then south to Bowling Green/Memphis Junction then the Memphis line (now R J Corman) to Guthrie then north on line toward Evansville/Henderson to Madisonville-whew, that was also a trip!
Of course most of Lebanon Branch west of Mt Vernon to now KRM taken out in the 1980s when SCL/Family Lines and company were getting rid of way too much trackage they regretted later on.
Stories told over and over. Keep what they don’t need, get rid of what they do. Ironically enough too, is that the Gallatin fossil plant used to also be served by rail directly. Not sure why, but eventually that was cut…now here we are effectively taking the same route, using an extra middleman.
Literally had no idea u made this video
I wonder if you ever caught C052 loaded coal from Princeton IN to Crystal River FL? I’ve seen that train many times when living in the Citrus County area from 2006 to 2010. However when getting to Crystal River the train travels on tracks owned by the local Florida Northern Railway. The train enters FNOR territory via Newbury FL. Ties down in Dunnellon FL for a crew change or a break. Then continues to the Crystal River Power plant aka Duke Energy. Unloads, travels back to Dunnellon. And sometimes FNOR locomotives take the empty cars to a yard in Newbury. However this train is now a rare sight because Duke Energy now runs on LNG. So this train travels to Crystal River unless a coal barge is waiting. And for some reason the speed limit on those FNOR tracks is a crawling 10mph.
I haven’t seen one of the Crystal River trains in that territory. I’ve heard of the practice, but I haven’t seen it myself. I may have seen one of the trains themselves in Folkston or somewhere up north, but it would have been ages ago. It sounds like a cool operation though, I might have to come see it one of these days.
I used to work the Louisville to Nashville side of things (CSXT Mainline Sub)(I still work at CSX but elsewhere on the system) including the Franklin Switcher local (L405) that switches a few industries on the C&N branch and the remnants of the TVA owned trackage there in Gallatin, TN. I don't know what is going on at TVA, for TVA not to use or maintain their track past the Hoeganaes corporation switch. I guess its some how cheaper to basically run right past the plant and load it on to a barge on the PAL and float it down Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers?
(That Hoeganaes plant is infamous if you've watch the USCSB channel)
I’ll have to check that out - I’ve never heard of the Hoeganaes plant. I remember the whole charade that surrounded Gallatin, since the last remaining “Baby Trainmaster” from Fairbanks Morse operated there - it was donated and shipped to TVRM a year or two ago. My only guess is that the plant’s demand doesn’t justify the cost of maintaining tracks which lead to the plant, and shipping by river gives more flexibility for storing coal for less frequent usage. That just a shot in the dark though.