CSX Sand Patch Grade June 1989 Part 2

Part 2 features Amtrak & CSX. Locations are Mance (CSX version of horse shoe curve) Foley, Falls Cut Tunnel, and Fairhope Road crossing. Sand Patch features some beautiful scenery, especially on the East slope. I took a few seconds to show the farms and the general area. The line follows Wills Creek (which starts as a trickle at the East Portal of Sand Patch Tunnel) all of the way down to Cumberland where it is a river. It was a great place to do railfanning.

[@b3j8]

This is great! Love watching the Chessie era I grew up in! The old B&O mainline to Chicago was just 20 miles north of my home in Indiana. If I wasn't up there taking pictures, i was listening to them on the scanner from home! Thanks!!

[@douglasskaalrud6865]

Thanks for posting this. I read about Sand Patch in an old Trains magazine a long time ago. I’m from Minnesota and will probably never make it there but this video gives some kind of feel for the grades that I couldn’t quite get from the article. I imagine all those grades are compensated-it would be wild to accurately model the curves in HO scale.

[@Zach_Bloomquist]

Nice video babyhars93. I really enjoyed the phase 3 amtrak at the beginning (with short baggage cars!) and the variety of early CSX paint schemes. I always liked the Chessie paint scheme and even the stealth CSX and Seaboard System scheme and it is nice to see those old locos still doing their job pulling heavy tonnage up the grade.

[@mikepenrod544]

Sand Patch Grade at its best!