Tidewater Virginia Rail Marine Operartions
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- The origin of this video was a short series of clips of Cape Charles and the PRR ferry that I came across. I decided to expand it into a full program. I made my first trip to the Tidewater region in 1978 to visit Virginia Beach. As my interest in rail/marine facilities and operations grew, I kept returning. This slideshow is a result of my efforts with a few historic photos added to complete the picture.
For video of carfloat operations, see my two vids on the Eastern Shore RR in 1990 and 1996.
the music really got me. beautiful. thanks for publishing all this great content to the world.
Some of those slides are exceptional clarity wow
Spent 7 years ae Little Creel 94-01. Barges still ferried rail cars. The old gravity coaling dock was still there. The outbound ship is USS Orion AS-18. She was home ported in Guam in the 1990's.
Interesting operation! I hadn't heard of any Norfolk & Western car float operations prior to this. Stellar music and editing too by the way.
N&W did not have a carfloat. The Chessie and PRR had them. N&W had a tugboat used for ship docking and barges.
Thank you Sir. Great history. Excellent video.
Thanks for posting a historical account of this line. I've been driving past it for the past six or so years while heading to the beach, and always found the railroad line paralleling the road to be fascinating, especially after reading about the carfloat operations. Finally in July 2018, incidentally shortly before abandonment was brought up, I stopped in Cape Charles, exploring and taking pictures. I hope that somebody is able to preserve the railroad down to Cape Charles. I heard that the concrete plant shutting down was a big hurt to the line.
I'd love to see the pics if you still have them. Any chance you want to share them with Cape Charles Museum?
@@dgeist4609 My pictures aren't anything great. I just took some pictures of the railroad equipment still remaining in Cape Charles, as well as the trackage around the dock area. I'm sad that I never saw the carfloat in action.
Being a Midwesterner this was a very cool history lesson
This is another absolute gem, thanks Rich.
I’m in Lake Havasu city Arizona this is genius.. So much history in this video I can’t stop watching.. lots of history here also but this seems so far away .. never been to the Midwest or eastern part of the country .. guess that’s why it fascinates me so much ... desert rat my whole life lol take care
I never had heard of this operation, very good presentation. Thanks so much for making this video
Fantastic!
A c t u a l legacy revisitations accompanied by lovely melodies dominated by Celtic undertones are stellar...mightily clever, experience-wise 🍸
Nice video - you really covered all the bases. Are you familiar with the short lived Smithfield Terminal carfloat out of Newport News?
Nope, never heard of that one.
The Domino sugar plant photo reminds me of the plant that is at Baltimore Inner Harbor.
It may be there. The location was not on the slide, I merely used it to illustrate a PRR tug, one of the ones that wound up at Cape Charles.
fmnut no problem, just wondered.
So is there away you can do a video on the layout of Cape Charles like the track plans of how the many yards they had because i'll be using that video as research for a route i'll be planning to build in Trainz. Thank you for this video as it shows there was big steam in Cape Charles since there was a roundhouse there plus the two large yards.
Here's a link to the DELMAR to CAPE CHARLES PRR track chart that has a good diagram of the yard plus lots of other info in building the route:
railsandtrails.com/TC/PRR/Chesapeake/PRR_TC%20Chesapeake%20Reg%20Delmarva%20District%20ML%20Delmar%20to%20Cape%20Charles%201960%20BA-Wi150c.jpg
You can also access the Wilmington to Delmar chart at the same website if you need it.
@@fmnut thanks but i know all too well about that site. if you go to www.historicaerials.com/viewer put in Cape Charles and go to the year 1952 and then 1956 in topo you'll see the yards im talking about. i'll be using TransDEM and google earth for this route. im just wondering if you had pics or maybe video for those yards. Find anything information on the yards in cape Charles is hard to find and if they are in detail too. I do have the track side of the Delmarva lines book too.
@@Icerthebluelion what I have of Cape Charles on video is in my two Eastern Shore RR vids. Just do a search on YT for them. Unfortunately a lot of tracks were ripped up by the time I got there with a video camera.
@@fmnut i understand by the time you got there most of the tracks were ripped up but i guess what i can do is go by Aerials of the area and use that to map out the yards and where everything went. of course i'll use your videos to help me out as well when it comes to doing the modern version of the route too. 1970s to present day.
I understand pulling out most of the tracks in the valuable Cape Charles land, but they should leave the float bridge and at least a couple through tracks alone.
Hello I have a question is there anyway you could share more tidewater photos and videos? I’m working on a website about tidewater rail history
Whats in this video is all I have. Sorry
@@fmnut thank you still!
@@seaworldfan2421 feel free to download anything you want from this video for your website. Or you can link to it on your site. Thanks for watching.
@@fmnut Thank you so much!!
The mighty tugsboats and teh choos choos trains to pull th ewsteel and passenmgers and iron ores and products from Orewgon to Minnissippi.