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I did see that post. I also heard that the bridge at Newport had collapsed, so if trains need to run to Asheville, it will need to take the loops. It might take longer.

@@C-O1309Production that eagle in the background sounded like it was from the 1990’s!

@@AverageJuiceWRLDEditor the horn sounds ok. The bell is pretty inaccurate

I believe there in the process of rebuilding the river line towards Morristown. However, the line this train is traveling on in this video, might be abandoned. also, the crossing tower you see on the right was bent out by the storm.

@@Blackfridaytrainman ye saw from drone footage the cantilever with the bell has been washed away. My hope for this line is that it will be rebuilt since i did see Amtrak had it on the future plans for passenger service from Asheville to Salisbury so hopefully its all rebuilt

@@tux_the_astronaut hope that happens too. It’s gonna be awhile for trains to return through there, or Amtrak would have to have a connecting bus from Asheville to Statesville, and I’m guessing that’s how far Amtrak would go on the AS line.

@@Blackfridaytrainman ye def gonna be a while before trains are back luckily i heard CSX already working on their line so hope NS will fully rebuild theirs. As for Amtrak and NCDOT it seems they had plans to go all the way to Asheville. And i believe they wanted to have additional stations along the route like possibly old fort statesvill etc

@@tux_the_astronaut Amtrak will not happen most likely. Back in 201?, I believe there was a storm that hit the loops that damaged the line to the point I think through trains were rerouted, and it was nothing but locals up to Statesville. Now, I’m starting to think the Loops will become abandoned

Thanks. The duo of Dash 9's made it a better catch than seeing AC44C6M's. I like that bridge a lot too! This is the best place you can catch 136 at.

thanks!

They dropped most of the cars at Old Fort. Intresting

And little to nothing on the weekends! I believe the day before, there could have been a chance P60 was 30+ cars. It is a shame, like the yard is now empty. NS might just sell the yard, to Amazon, so they cab build a WNC distribution center there.

Its fun to see them go through the loops. A decade ago, there were a bunch of trains. NOW, it only runs on weekdays, and usually the max length is the train you see in this video.

@@freedomfan4272 nice! That’s cool to hear about. Usually, if P60 has cars, and runs in the afternoons at 5pm, it can have l10 to 20 cars, or on some occasions, can be the size of this train in this video, like 37

Was this 136 or 135, or something else? RIP ASHEVILLE!

It’s also tragic to see how there’s hardly any trains in WNC. Now, it feels like it’s going to completely disappear unless passenger rail comes to Asheville. It feels like WNC’s risk of loss in trains are very high

Most likely, IF SOMETHONG SPECIAL RUNS!

but most likely, I would be catching P60 eastbound.

@@Blackfridaytrainman for sure but possible even P60 as the time has changed and the sun sets later in the day..

@@BlueRidgeDave yes! Thanks!

Thanks a lot!

It sure is! About like 8 trains, which most are 100+ cars compared to Asheville. wherever I go, I want to see some action, because avl is dead!

Thanks! Very Strange to see 2 6 AXLE GE'S, and 2 cars! I believe that same exact set of power that night had about 15-20 cars.

Welcome to Asheville 😂

@@Trainman46 I agree! Now a downgraded rail city!

It was. Between 6 to 6:30PM

@@Blackfridaytrainman that’s awesome

@@wncrailfan1515 it sure was!

Well, NS is stupid when it comes to NS P60. Putting big locomotives on a short train with like 10 cars. It had about 19 cars, and 1 dash 9 would work well, but run in notch 8 which is great in my opinion. Wonder what your answer to why P60 had Geeps S&A? Because that’s just my theory. It could be an issue with the dash 9.

Thanks a lot!

I think it's for free or it's in the Midwestern branch dlc for $3.99.

I know, in fact, I have all but the GP38-2. At that time, there was 1 KCS locomotive. I’m going to allow comments on that video right now.

@@Blackfridaytrainman ok, is it because yt is automatically disabling your comments? also the KCS GP38-2 has the same horn as the CN one for some reason

@@OliverrandontheRails no. I disabled the comments manually, because, of comment bots. Might be a Trainz 2 locomotive

Yes. However, the ties are obstructing the view.

Wow crazy this was a year ago I miss my SD40-2’s

Yet kinda funny! Sometimes P60 Is 2 cars! Some days, is more than 30 cars. There is just minor industries out of Hickory

Me too! It was supposed to be around 96 cars, but the train cutted the first 54 cars at Brudgewater for the loops. It ran because Linwood got full.

@@Blackfridaytrainman wonder if it happens again ?

@ashevilletrainman6989 probably not. Asheville will not have any through trains, and they moved all traffic through Roanoke, leaving the Loops like a branch line, and that makes me MAD AS HELL! Let's see how Linwood or Roanoke gets.

@@Blackfridaytrainman ashevilles pretty hard to railfan now unless you know exactly when something’s coming or leaving. And I don’t anymore. Trains arrive from Knoxville earlier than 9am now. I’ve seen em at 9, 10, 10:45…

@@ashevilletrainman6989 yes, I saw 136 at 9am on the 27th with a good sized train. Sometimes, they arrive at 11.

You should! Asheville is interesting yet dying! I think their is a high hood at Asheville yard.

@@Blackfridaytrainman. Yeah I hate hate hate how there’s no trains in Asheville. Like any other city with a rail yard you can go wait by the tracks and a train will come. If you do that in Asheville you’ll be waiting 12 hours if not an entire day.

@@ashevilletrainman6989NS completely moved operations from Asheville away, probably due to damage from Hurricane Irma, and PSR. Now some trains go through Roanoke to get to NC! Like the cars headed to Charlotte take 126 to Roanoke, and get blocked off to the NEW 134 (yes, 134 got moved too) and head to CLT the Long Way, that’s surprisingly efficient! Covid was the straw that broke the camels back for Asheville, and the Canton mill closure made it worse! Seeing this happen, and if it will happen like forever, NS will get rid of operations out Asheville and Asheville might become the 1st city in the southeast with no Class 1 railroad. The loops will also get converted to a branch line, and bye bye signals too.

It is! If you ever want to see it, head over to the Point Lookout Trail Ridgecrest trailhead, and knock down some kudzu with a branch. Recommend running there or biking. I’m

It is! One historical train I guess! Now, the mill in canton is closed. At least I documented one of the last woodchip trains in Asheville. Asheville is in trouble for trains. I try to make the best of it!

This was May 6th 2023, one of the last ever loads of mulch. I think Walthers makes woodchip cars similar to those.

Wow! P60 had intermodals on it for Asheville. Also, a little GP40 was sandwiched by GE’s. The 3rd unit on 136 (with the stripped auto rack for Biltmore Iron and Metal I believe) was the 6th oldest Dash 9-44CW (C44-9W) on NS. A convoy must have been happening.

Yes it is! Unpatched in 2000.

I heard that some special train came through Asheville last week and the week before, transporting cars to Spencer. Hope that would be the new normal, or, Asheville is dead. Usually, the freight headed there will head through Roanoke, the long way, because the S line, has seen a speed restriction of 25mph, probably due to Hurricane Irma, a crew shortage at Asheville, possibly PSR, and Covid was the straw that broke the camels back. And with P87 not running woodchips anymore and now working in Old Fort, and the closure of Canton Mill, Asheville railfanning is in deep trouble, like how it's been for 3 years unless through freight comes back! If Little Evergreen in Waynesville shuts down, I believe IPEX (formerly Silver Line Plastics) in Woodfin and Kimberly Clark, down in Hendersonville, is the busiest industry for Asheville Area. The railfans in Asheville now have to travel to catch trains until traffic comes back. Chattanooga is a great place to see some action, and I've seen Chattanooga on a webcam. Thinking of going down there one day!

I caught her because I was home sick, and that was a hit! I catch trains one in every 4 weeks. My family is very busy.

I think P87 serves Auria Solutions, and Columbia Foredt Product's, but it's as needed, or P60 is the last one on the loops, serving those Industries. This can be a reroute, because I believe those cars should head to Roanoke, and ride another train to Knoxville, the normal out of the way route, and one of those trains got ti big, they needed to run this extra. Somethings up, or a new normal is coming. Well find out next week. I will make a description for this video soon.

What bridge? I was crossing over the train yard right before it came under me.

@@Blackfridaytrainman the bridge on Haywood Rd that goes over the tracks

@@Blackfridaytrainman the bridge at the very end of your video

@@sir.boxyboi So you were above me! Cross that bridge most Wednesdays at 3:50PM

@@Blackfridaytrainman yea, I normally go that way to get home so I love looking at the train go by, it's always a goodie a see something special

I know! The SD60E in my opinion was the youngest. The youngest untouched was the 9396. the 8425 eventually went to the scrapper. The 9396 is somehow running, and its the only 9300 series dash 9 left! Something goes wrong with the 9396 soon, its sent to get rebuilt!

@@Blackfridaytrainman Yep, hopefully 9396 survives long enough that it may survive into preservation, NS definitely needs to keep a few dash 9s for museums and heritage.

@@Bload72productions the dash 9 40c is dead for good. The SD80mac is extinct. The 9396 will probably be in storage in like a week. NS might not preserve one.

@@Blackfridaytrainman I know and it's ashame, I think railroads should keep at least one of each locomotive class behind for preservation.

It is! I have planned to do the inevitable: Take a day off from school just to catch P87 on the loops, and I haven’t chased it there in almost 2 years and it was just 1 and done. Might take another day off and catch the last P87 because some railfan is saying that P87 will go away be mid to late April.

The first responders train is in the Asheville yard right now btw

@@ashevilletrainman6989 waiting for it to leave so I catch it!

And it’s still is today!

The thing is, I know the times of trains! And I will be re-uploading this video in 4K 60FPS!

@@Blackfridaytrainman yeah you have to , to be able to see trains around here. There’s usually a train that leaves to Knoxville at 2am, arriving around 8 am. And a train heads to Asheville from Knoxville around 4/5 am, arriving from 10:30am-12pm ish

@@ashevilletrainman6989 yes! I will chose CSX in Erwin Tennessee. It’s less than an hour, seismic drive, and friendly crews!

Nice chase! The light and locations are perfect. We’ve never fanned P60. They go to Oyama and back?

@@bryanmarshall8124 that's true! Departing at 5 o'clock!

Yes! All 420’s! The first one is dedicated I n honor of the old Trains Magazine editor, but it’s only on one side!

@@Blackfridaytrainman do you know what radio frequency Asheville yard uses?

I use broadcastify, so I can only listen to the dispatcher on the line from Biltmore eastward.

Yes! It was on 135/136 for a brief time I think. 135 departs at like 4am

@@Blackfridaytrainman cool

@@Blackfridaytrainman 2am usually. Gets to Knoxville about 8am. It leaves from Knoxville around 4am.

Yes, in fact, I can bike there to see the 7 soon! Also, the Old Fort Loops has some great spots.