[0p] Full Documentary of CSX Switching the Feed Mill in Comer GA, 06/02/2015 ©mbmars01
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- We follow the grain train from Hull to Comer in Northeast Georgia to its final destination: The Chicken Feed Mill located at Howie Siding. The entire switching of grain cars at the feed mill that is completely documented here lasted for about 2.5 hours. An exciting event was the bypass on the side track of the inevitable intermodal Q194 which showed up very early. At that time, the main track of Howie Siding was still occupied by grain cars. [© 2015 MBMARS Productions. Exclusive rights for RUclips channel "mbmars01" only.]
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My wife and I enjoyed this video very much. Thanks a million for a job well done. We live in Centerville in Gwinnett County and get to Auburn and Winder and old Buford for rail fanning. Will get here someday. Gene Bivings
+Gene Bivings Thank you very much. So cool to get such a nice feedback! I'm in Auburn and Winder occasionally, in Buford rarely. All are nice locations, but quite a bit away from where I live. However, there are several videos on my channel with footage from these towns.
Another great video, keep up the great work, enjoyed it very much, thanks, (from Canada)
+Harold Smuck Thank you for your interest in my videos. This is highly appreciated.
Great shot of the"Steel Worm! Awesome Video like always my friend. Thanks for sharing!!!
Glad you like this old one, too ;)
Yes,I saw that. There are still many that you up-loaded I havn't seen yet but Have watched more than not watched. Rest assured,I'll eventually see them all. I have about a dozen or so of my own that I have posted. Still a novice but now that I'm retired,I spend a lot of time waiting on trains and love it. Keep yours coming as well and feel free to check out a few of mine,I only have 13 subscibers but I don't video trains for any reason other than the thrill and joy of doing so. I'm sure you love it as well. :) Enjoy your evening,Sir!
+High Rail-62 Nice! It sure is fun, but also a lot of work to get the videos right.
Love your videos since I'm a freight train fan - thank you for posting
Cool, thank you.
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Me too.love em.
I'm very familiar with that territory between Athens and Elberton. I used to travel SC/GA 72 from my home in SC to UGA back in the 1980's specifically to see the trains. I was never disappointed, especially in the evening.
That is some massive switching operation there.
+moonspots01 Cool! I'm rather new to the area and still enjoy discovering it. When the trains are running it's simply awesome, in particular, because of the parallel highway 72. This makes chasing a lot easier. I'm glad to have an active track nearby, although sometimes there are truly dull times with no train running for hours.
That CSX 552's YN2 paint was so clean in this video!
Those were the days! Nowadays one must be happy to find a YN2 in whatever condition at all.
The close-up of the wheels to the track was Great,I could even see daylight between the wheels and track confirming what I had always heard that only a surface not wider than a dime is all that the wheel actually touches on the track,making resistance extremely non existent .
+High Rail-62 Thanks. That's why in contrast to all photography wisdom I occasionally like to shoot against the sun. Reflection and refraction of light provides special effects.
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Awesome footage... I always enjoy switching operations!
+drc930 I'm glad you like it! Same here, but unfortunately switching operations are typically rather time-consuming and the one thing I really lack is time!
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Although the ground is flat, this reminds me a bit of the Sanderson's Farms operation east of Franklin, Tx. It used to be serviced by the MoP, but of course now it's UP.
Right, I would think that all railroad operations at grain facilities look more or less the same everywhere in the country.
Great video, nice job. I enjoyed watching the whole thing.
Many thanks!
Just think. I'm one of the employees to operate those when they get off main line at the mill
You should take and post some videos from there. It would be very interesting to know how a place like that works.
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That is a great perspective at the grain mill looking down at the train. It looks like a snake or a caterpillar. That looks like a pretty steep grade, too.
I know, I love that view. Of course, the actual grade is somewhat exaggerated by the telephoto foreshortening, but still impressive.
Nice video. That’s one very clean YN2 CSX
Thanks! I like the YN2s :)
There should be the third track on the mill side so it's will make it easier for the traffic to get through. Probably about all the length of the train that we have seen on the video.
The problem is that the feed mill is on the "wrong" side, i.e., all switching is done on the main track and other trains have to pass on the slower side track. However, there aren't really many trains, so this is not a big issue.
That is probably the cleanest YN2 csx engine I have ever seen
I bet she was repainted , but again in YN2, no way ~15 year old unit is still in such a good shape....
Ikr that yn2 is extra clean
at 19;54 the train is brok in 2 places and another train has come up on same track and is switching over by majic to track #2 what happened to the cars from track#1 first train? something is screwy down over that hill.
For those not seeing the breaks, it's a 42 minute video shot over the course of 2 and a half hours. There's been an hour fifty minutes cut out. Which is why you don't always see the switching of the tracks taking place. If you want to see the layout check out Google Maps. The feed mill is Columbia Farms just to the west of Comer.
we used to have a road train i would go see in Thomasville yard in Thomasville, GA.
used to have wide bodies on the point. made up in Thomasville as Q545 and return as Q546.
so much for the Thomasville and dothan subs. all those trains were put on the Fitz, the 545/546 was deleted by csx.
That's a pity. I cannot blame CSX for trying to operate economically, but sometimes one doesn't understand the purpose of a change. We also "lost" a train here, Q662, which seemed to make perfect sense. Now it was merged with Q616, which is run overlong. This almost routinely leads to problems, Q616 has established the reputation of an unreliable train.
Thanx for filming and sharing!
Thank you!
I'm going to West Virginia here next month and staying for a week, there is a lot of trains that move there, so that will be fun going railfanning
I hope you'll have fun and get to see many trains :)
I've been studying American freight trains and routes religiously for almost a year now (new hobby at age 36). They're so complex and interesting. Thinking about applying at the CSX location near me. Doubt I'd get hired on, but man it would be so awesome working for this corporation. I'd even spit shine rails if I had to! 😄
It's an awesome hobby and it's never too late to get started I think.
Be careful csx chews up and spits out employees
@@andrewgiglio7287 Is that from experience?
This is an awesome video. Thank you.
Great you enjoyed it! You're welcome!
Great footage! outstanding, thank you
+Daniel Kennedy Thank you very much. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Man, that ain't chicken feed! Oh wait... yeah it is...:)) And a LOT of it too...
Great video! Keep up the good work!
Hallo mbmars 01 . Die Topographie ist ja Sensationell !
+Werner Sievers Yes, it is!
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Excellent video thanks
Great you enjoyed it, thanks!
Great Video!
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Super video!
Cool, thanks!
The third loco, 7741, has an unusual radiator configuration. Any idea what series/model it is??
It's a GE Dash 8-40CW, which has indeed a smaller radiator than the more modern Dash 9 or GEVO models.
gfandwrr1 When locomotive crews need extra power they'll not only MU the locomotive(s) in a consist, but they'll sometimes open the radiators grills, so the fan can draw in more power. Hope this helps
finally I can see a full video thanks
+MrGameFreak Haha, you're welcome.
Perhaps you could answer a question for me,you refered to the train that was passing on the siding as Q-194 how do you/they come up with the "Q" number ? Its not the train number. I was curious as to how this was done. I'm always hearing railfans refering to "Q"I know its a manifest and has to be someplace by a certain time or the Rail Road co. gets penalized. Any help on this would really be appreciated. Thanks!
+High Rail-62 All trains have symbols that make them unique on the network. Many of those are scheduled trains that means they re-occur on a certain schedule, often daily. CSX, like all other railroads, has an own system of symbols. Q194 is a daily intermodal train between Atlanta and Charlotte. Q trains can be manifests, autoracks, or intermodals. Coal trains are designated N or T for loaded, and E or U for empties. Ethanol and rock is K, work trains W, grain V and G, etc. Extra trains can have S, R, and X symbols.
Thank you for the explanation. I was also able to find on google the symbols,example for empty grain is a V. I enjoy filming the trains and now I'm to the point where I'm seeing and hearing guys like you talk about this or that and was curious. Thanks for taking the time to explain,it really shows you care and have class. Enjoy the day and I'll be watching. :)
So what happens to the conductor if a knuckle breaks when they’re backing downhill?
JD JohnnyDee either bail or hold on for dear life
What camera do you use?
For this old video, I used a Panasonic HC-V550 camcorder; nowadays I use a Panasonic WXF1.
Just curious who/what the vehicle was that was out there around the 37 minute mark.
Those are the vans that pick up and dropoff train crews
looks like they would have cut the hill down unless the rails was laid down years ago when they didn't have the equipment to cut it down? From the heat coming up off the ground it must have a little warm that day. Wished you could have showed the unloading the cars. Very good video. Thanks
+John Moore Well, I don't know it, but I think the original railroad lines here were among the first ever laid down. So, maybe they simply didn't have the equipment. Unloading the cars is rather unspectacular, because it is done in this covered sort of shed. The only thing one can see is dust from the fine grains is coming up. Thanks, I'm glad you liked the video!
how they do that? did they sneek up and unhook . then go back and pull the train apart?
+Stephen Barker Yes, they split the train by uncoupling sections of it and move the parts onto the storage tracks of the mill separately.
Awesome video
Thank you!
that looked like a nice day to whatch trains was the weather nice
I remember it was hot and there was no shade lol.
Awesome video! I watched the entire thing!
+Mike Walsh Haha, nice. Seems, I have a new fan!
Awesome video, I subscribed!!! Keep up the good videos!!
+NCRailfan139 Thanks! I'll try my very best as time permits.
How many cars was there on the train at the start of the video
I don't remember it, maybe about 80?
I'm always amazed at how trains can climb that grade in all of your videos. How long does it take to unload the train and send it back for another load? Do the CSX locos get involved in the spotting at the silos or is there an in-plant switcher? Hope that cop didn't give you a hard time.
+JAMES MARK Yes, it is amazing and sometimes doesn't work as expected. Occasionally, trains split and block the line (and road crossings in Comer). There is a small railcar mover at the silo. The locos only switch the storage tracks. I never give a cop a reason to be angry at me, of course ;)
Amazing video! I enjoyed it!
+BNSFguy 617 Thank you so much!
Where did the three csx locomotives go to after dropping off all the grain cars out there?
+The Explore Master They stayed there overnight. I don't know whether they kept them there to build the train of the empty hoppers later, or if they moved them elsewhere the next day.
Oh okay.
I worked as a brakeman for the SP in the late 60s and early 70s. Back then, we had the caboose. Could someone give me some insight into what that apparatus is I see on the end of trains these days? What is its function? Thank you.
+David Barnett I think a good description of the EOTs is given on the wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-train_device .
+mbmars01 Thanks for the link.
Do you by any chance know who owns the feed mill?
I think the feed mill is owned by Columbia Farms.
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Why do they tie down there and not return with an empty train or loaded train what ever the case may be? Retired trainman, I can't figure out the move.
The same engines were used the next day to switch the cars inside the feed mill, i.e., they moved the cars through the unloader. After this was done, they assembled a train of empty cars on the main track of the siding and indeed returned with the empty cars to where they came from. Since this can basically be done within one day, there is no need to move the engines somewhere else. Even more so as there is no depot nearby anyway. The feed mill owns a small railcar mover but it is too tiny to be used to unload an entire train of grain cars.
I am surprised that CSX doesn't keep a switch crew there, and just pick up and set off that is the way we did in the old days. We had out lying jobs, you would go to work there. Just Curious!
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To be honest, I don't know exactly how they schedule delivery, switching, and departure. I also don't know where the crews are from and how all this is organized.
Fabulous! But oh, how perfect if you had added a bit of voiceover on these marvelous views. Folks need narration -- just a few words here and there, to explain what is happening in your wonderful footage!
Thanks! I let the crews talk about what they are doing ;-)
and where did the last half of the train go? it just dissapeared i guess
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My son watches thousands of videos like this and I would to know why 3 locomotives?
+TVAV Films I'm glad he likes trains! For long, heavy trains, a single engine wouldn't have enough horsepower to haul it. Therefore, trains have typically more than one engine.
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what camera do you use
In most cases, I use a Panasonic HC-V550 camcorder.
nice video
Thanks!
What would it take to realign the formation so that Main is next to Highway 72 and Siding is by the mill? There must surely be a speed penalty or differential associated with the turnouts. Excellent edit BTW.
Mill and main line are not so busy that a realignment would pay off. I guess there's one train coming in and next day going out at the mill every week and when it does, maybe 3 or 4 main line trains are affected by the decomposition/composition of the train. During the unloading process, the main line is open.
mbmars01 thanks - what is actually the speed difference between the two through tracks, if there is one?
45 mph on the main, 25 mph through the siding.
mbmars01 ah ok, thanks - guess that's not such a huge issue then, what with the top of the hill being so close anyway :-)
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+TommyZTrains Nice 😀 Glad you liked it!
how many cars did that train have?
***** I don't remember, but I think it had more than 80 cars.
+mbmars01
probably 135 cars
Could well be.
My 400mm lens would have a field day on this line
real nice--liked that
+BNforever2009 I'm happy you like this one, too!
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how the hell did thattrain breakin the midle ?
+Stephen Barker It didn't break, the conductor uncoupled the cars manually.
where the fuck did all those cars go/?
look at a million cars then he leaves two and other train steals the rest?
+skipper skipper it's not nice to cuss
i see the back of the train going over the out of sight, while the engine has past the switch/ it must have stopped and dissconnected out of sight down the hill. i say there is a chunk of video missing
Love it
Jermaine Douglas Thanks! Glad you like it.
Can u make another if u get the time or feel like it
Jermaine Douglas Well, it's a rather time-consuming task, but, maybe, at some time in the future. I would certainly have fun producing another video of this sort.
Okay I subscribe to ur channel I keep a check
Okay, thanks.
sorry.hit dislike by mistake.ooops.yeah.took me this long to notice it.sorry.love this video.one of my favorites.railfan big time.
One can click it again to cancel it or just click the like button.
You have to be on top of your game or you'll get a knuckle or two
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The grain express.
I know! I like that train.
@@mbmars01 Indeed, probably my favorite train to catch as I've only caught 2 in all the time I've been railfanning. I recently discovered that a couple of those run on my New Castle Subdivision in Ohio, and one of them (G772) goes to a really interesting short line RR in Green Spring, WV. This short line RR is called the South Branch Valley RR (SBVR), which has two vintage locomotives in Chessie and B&O paint they use to help pull freight cars and grain trains CSX brings in to them. The grain trains CSX brings in to them are always on weekends, and the grain operations after CSX brings it in take place in the week. CSX brings the grain to the interchange (usually about 100 cars), and the SBVR takes it down in 2 cuts to the chicken feed mill in Moorefield. They take the first cut down on Monday, the second on Tuesday, and bring the empties back up to the CSX interchange on Wednesday.
They took way too long.
These processes simply take a surprisingly long time, but it's not easy to come up with ideas as to how to make it more efficient.
i said what i said. and meant it. I DID NOT SAY THUMBS DOWN TO THE VIDEO. so why u attack me ???? i m bham alabama so i can drive over there and watch it myself if it ment so much to me. i think the video has parts missing. a guy appears from nowhere? to break the train? nope. but near the camera he appears to pull the switch.. something is not consistent is all i m saying.
Don't worry, no one attacks you. I just didn't put everything into the video. That's maybe, why it looks as if the train was broken. The entire switching procedure took far more than 2 hours and I found this too long for the video. The have to uncouple about half the train or even less and shove the first part onto the storage tracks inside the storage yard, which also consumes quite a bit of time. Then they come out on the main again, pick up the next cars and repeat this until all cars are distributed on the storage tracks.
watched this over and over and still dont see how it broke in the middle.
down over the hill , the train breaks apart. wow, how did that happen since the train did not slow down so a guy could jump off. that only happened only at the switch, not down the hill.
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