CSX Hancock Switcher at the Berkeley Springs Station 1990
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- The former CSX Hancock switcher works pulpwood flats to and from Berkeley Springs as well as the US Silica Sand Plant in 1990. CSX abandoned the section from US Silica to Berkeley Springs in APR 1991.
Thumbnail Photo: CSX GP30M 4224 (former C & O) switches cars at the Westvaco Yard in Berkeley Springs. Engineer: Bob Lemmert
I'm absolutely fascinated by CSX transition era WV branch line railroading. This line is just screaming to be modeled. Thanks for sharing!
Well have no fear, I am watching this video because I AM modeling it in HO scale.
this video was so relaxing! thankyou! i love trains and travelling by train and i spent some memorable time in berkeley springs...a beautiful place i desperately hope to return to. i remember seeing how blue everything looked in the winter snow and ice.....it was amazing. and i travelled there by train!
When the train gets to the depot and you can see the knitting mill on the left of the video, there used to be a rail spur that ran on the left side of the knitting mill clear up to the old Cold Storage building, now the Ice House. That put the train 1 block from the main square in town. It picked up goods such as apples and canned peaches and tomatoes and picked up and brought supplies to Inter Woven Knitting Mill, Gischners, Newbraugh's Feed and fuel store and a couple others I can't remember. I lived on the corner of Harrison Ave and Williams St and would hear the work train come in to pick up pulp wood and other things. Loved hearing that sound at night. It came in around 1 o'clock in the morning when I was about 4. I am 70 now. I can't remember when it stopped going up town ,but picked up pulp wood for many years at the WVACO lot like it is doing in this video. Someone was wondering about the passenger trains years ago that brought people here from Baltimore and Washington areas ,and how they turned. They didn't, the backs of the seats would flip so on the return trip the conductor just went through and flipped the seat backs to the other side. No need to turn the car around. This was usually the case with all trains back then.
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from the mainline @ hancock to the sand mine is still there (4 miles), from the mine to berkeley springs (3.5 miles) is long gone.
They are going to be using this track bed as a "rail trail". Money has be appropriated for this trail and also the depot to be restored.
CSX quickly abandoned this section once the lumber business shut down.
A shame they no longer run to Berkeley Springs! I was there photographing the station on New Year's Day 2009. I would assume, when the passenger trains still ran there, they would have been "push-pull" down the branch as I noticed no signs of a turntable or wye behind the station. I also would assume the freights to the sand plant operate that way. The sand plant is impressive-at least whatever I can see from US 522.
Is the tracks still there or are they gone?