Busy Day In Waycross
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- All CSX, ACL & SCL Railfans in the South must at some time visit Waycross, Georgia. This giant 4 mile long classification yard is one of the biggest on the system. Here's what I got on a one-day visit in June 2020.
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So true and make sure it is a room with a locked door so your siblings can't harass you during the video! LOL!
Got this notification as soon as I landed the jet tonight and couldn’t wait to get home to watch!
You forgot to add you need a coffee or beer and snacks..you need to watch twice, in case you missed something the first time.
Well, I guess that's true. :D
very well said my friend,.....
Just discovered your channel. What a pleasure to watch your video. I’am getting old 78 years(Ha) and don’t get out too much nowadays so I know I will enjoy your videos. I grew up near the train tracks at my grandparents home and the trains would put me to sleep at night. I so much miss those wonderful nights. I just love trains and the beautiful sound of them. Thanks so much.
I live in Waycross and I can confirm there are always trains blocking the tracks 😂
Nice work Danny,you make your video pleasant and entertaining.
Terry
I really enjoy your videos. As a child, i once lived right next to a train track hauling bauxite ore in 🇯🇲. That was my number 1 entertainment. Watching your videos is living that experience all over again. Love it.
Waycross is a neat place. I went to Waycross about 15 years ago to look up some family ancestral information. My great grandfather worked for the railroad in the late 1800's. Sometimes before 1910 he took a job transfer with the railroad to Rocky Mount, NC where our families still live today. I have no living relatives in Waycross at this time, but found the resting place of several relatives in the local cemetery including 3 children which did not live past the age of 5. I really enjoyed that trip to Waycross, GA and would like to do it again.
It's pretty out here.Id never move back to the city.
Jesus all those stored engines
The sight of so many makes me winded
Waycross is our Main, Main repair yard. So anything new comes into there. Anything about to be scraped is there and anything for repair is in there.
Yeah, it's sad seeing all those older units sitting there rotting away :( Hopefully as business picks up some of them will see life again :)
Railfan1981 Yeah sad to see the amount of rust on them.
ewing hunter harrisons fault
Keep glorifying these robber barons that are killing good middle class jobs.
I used to deliver freight to downtown Waycross out of Hazlehurst for Southeastern Freight Lines. Used to get hung up all the time at the Ossie Davis crossing, the one and Albany Ave and Nichols street. But eventually learned the schedules somewhat and where to be. Used to deliver to the Car shop and CSX docks all the time... my first few times in there was nerve racking, didn’t have a clue where I was going, or how to get there but eventually figured it out. And the funny thing was CSX and GE have socks that are right side by side. You could literally talk to the GE people from the CSX side, BUT CSX would not touch GE’s freight nor would GE touch CSX’s freight. My first cousin is also an engineer out of the Fitzgerald yard, his name is Jamie Ray Spivey if you ever meet him.
I saw 8905 last Thursday as a DPU on an intermodal running through middle TN, just north of Nashville. So cool how these engines move so far so quick.
beauiful and knowledgable narration with a clearly spoken english. just like a national geografic or a History channel narrator. one of the best. emilio esteva from Puerto Rico.
Waycross is my hometown . Here , the Railroad is KING !
I’m what some might call a railroad brat. My daddy worked in that rail yard for over 30 years until he had to retire because of his health. He loved the railroad and loved to take me out to the Rice Yard. I loved going out to the train yard with him. This brings back many memories. He also worked on the wrecker when they had to go to a train derailment. It was amazing to watch. I miss seeing all of that.
CSX 8905? I saw that same locomotive in fostoria Ohio on my birthday May 26th of this year. It was brand-spanking-new and she looked great thank you Danny for getting this shot.
Yet another winner, excellent stuff!
Thanks Mike!
How do you know Mike from virtual railfan
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@Miller Moshe Instablaster :)
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Hi, I'm really hooked on watching your video's. I'm an Army Veteran. There's a lot of things that I physically can't do anymore but I can watch trains on my computer. Thanks for all you do!...........Dan SR
Thank YOU, Army! It's gratifying to hear from anyone who's served our country.... and enjoys my videos.
Great show. I've only begun to watch your show . Im learning a lot. Thank you
Who knew that we would be a hot topic? The trains are very busy here. There is a train track literally everywhere here.
I live in Waycross, and let me tell you... the double track on Ossie Davis is the bane of my existence. It seems that it’s much easier to appreciate these locomotives when you aren’t at the mercy of their traffic.
I've seen many a railfan video. Your videos are not only informative, but also the quality of your videos are superb. Just enough narration with varied angles of pictures. Thanks for all of your time, effort and devotion.
Just like counting sheep . Best story telling. Thanks Danny.
As a resident of the Waycross/Blackshear community, this an excellent video. Take care and have a blessed week ahead and stay safe on your travels.
Me too
Great video Danny, my wife was born in Waycross but she had no idea the train yard was so large.!btw I am presuming that Brunel St was named in honor of the great UK railway engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel
I model the mid-80s ... but your videos make me want to model CSX and today's railroads! Great videos! Keep 'em coming.
Glad you like them!
No exaggeration, that Rice yard is simply enormous!
I'm so glad you got to show the Waycross and environs yard and hope you will have more soon. I live in Georgia and have been through Waycross, but did not know of the rail yard. The yard must be bigger than the entire town as I recall going through it.
Thanks Danny. I'm a rail nut. One of my grandfathers worked for the old Alton line in Bloomington, Illinois and he used to walk me up the tracks to the Depot so we could watch the trains come through at the diamond right there. A cousin of my fathers saw us one time in Grad dad's back yard and invited us to ride on his switch engine. For a kid on that old engine was like heaven!
I live in Waycross & this video just popped up on my feed. Reading the comments & never knew how many ppl were actually interested in trains. You'll never get bored in Waycross if you're a train lover, in fact you might grow to not like them as much cause they are forever in your way lol
Danny Harman still practice his broadcasting skills by making top quality railfanning videos. His railroad knowledge compliment his video to make a complete package.
"it was a little dangerous but a nice angle." Good to see people with priorities in the right order
Yes. One should never take risks in the quest for something a little better.
I love this. I live in Waycross and this was in my TH-cam recommendation and was really excited when I say that it has 100k views. I also love how he talked talk so positive about it, but everyone here hates the trains because they block traffic so much all the time haha
Got caught yesterday on the way to work on the plant Ave Morningside Dr crossing. There was some hate.
I live in waycross ga
No way! What's up Nicholas!
Great voice modulation and orientation detail for an otherwise bewildered chartered surveyor in Norwich UK.
Thank's Danny, another very nice show.
I enjoy your videos very much. I have always been a fan of railroads sense I was little guy. I finds these videos a refreshing break from the doom and gloom of the real world
These are by far the best railman videos I have ever seen. Super footage, professional sound and excellent narration, I live way up in CN and CP country but thanks to Danny I have discovered Folkston, Plant City, Sanford and some FEC spots, and learned a lot about CSX history and operations. I have been making lists of other hotspots in Fl and Ga that I hope to visit once life returns to normal. Please keep up the great work and many thanks to you Danny from CL near Toronto
i agree he does have the best railman vids ive seen to date on youtube and even facebook
I was going to say something along the same lines, but I just figured I'd tag along to your superbly phrased comment! I'm also a fellow Canuck railfanning around Montreal... I often catch CN 326/327 with CSX power on my outings!
MrClawrence Ditto your comments. Distant Signal is the best railfanning site on TH-cam.
Canadian brothers! But ditto about his railfanning videos.
I’m in the Norfolk southern and csx country
Of all the railroad videos I’ve seen these are the best. Very informative. I feel like I’m there doing my own video.
I’m 15 and always love watching you older rail fans because you guys know so much and explain so much to make it intery
*interesting*
I was browsing randomish videos and just found this. Very engaging :)
What a great video !! Your voice was amazing and you brought Waycross to all of us. Great job sir !!
Thank you kindly!
another great video Danny your work is getting better all the time. please be careful
Nicely done! I like that you are catching DPUs in your shots. I guess the days are gone when helper engines would wait at steep grades to push or pull consists over the grade. It's just neat to see a locomotive stuck in the middle of a train.
My uncle was a conductor way back in the early days of CSX, he formerly worked for Chessie. He was the conductor on the derailed bear creek tracks in Miamisburg Ohio in the 1980's where Phosphorus was spilled in the creek and there was a major catastrophe mainly due to the Miamisburg fire department spraying water on the phosphorus that was spilled.
As an instructor for the Coastal Pines Technical college in Waycross, I teach part of the Railroad Technology Management Degree program and I appreciate you spotlighting our little town here in this video. Thank you and as a side note for you, the GE Locomotive side has been sold to Wabtec. Also, the precision railroading and COVID-19 has caused some recent layoffs at CSX.
Another awesome video from the railfan video king...cheers from the other Melbourne...Australia!
Wow! That's a very nice compliment, Greg. Thanks!
Best place to live. I've been everywhere, but I always come back home.
of course,you get a like,Danny.I have been a subscriber. For yeeears,and plan to stay as long as you keep making videos.I would like to go out with you someday.but that’s not likely since a stroke seven years ago,left me paralyzed on my left side,and bedridden.My wife has been wonderful,and is my primary caregiver.At,least ,I can enjoy.your outings vicariously through your videos. Thanks for the video.
As an old brakeman on the former SP, thanks for the hard work you put in to entertain us. One of the aspects of your video's I enjoy is telling us about the lines that intersect [interlock], diverge, and converge, as well as naming what railroad it once was back in the day. With respect to the overpasses and how railroads back in the day let you know who it belonged to, time and the weather have pretty much made it a thing of the past.
Thanks for the excellent uploads. I have no money to help, I'm sorry to say. Your commentary is always interesting. 2-23-22. St.Joseph, MO
I live in waycross. These trains will drive you absolutely crazy. Sometimes they stop and then start backing up. And if I decide to go around, it never fails to be gone by the time I get around. Still an excellent video though. Nice to know more about my daily aggravation lol
This is my first visit to your site. It's a first-class presentation. I'll be back. It was great to hear about the big yard and to see the heavy volume of traffic. I appreciate your your running commentary. Keep up the good work !!
10/10 for the Drone footage, great seeing what the yard are like right now and the locos stored
Danny. Your living proof that railfanning is a real thing. I always enjoy your videos AND your overall attitude. You try to learn new things about what your doing,your not a "know it all"
I hope you get to enjoy many more years of this.
One of these days i hope to visit some of these hot spots you show.
Being a former resident of Jax, FL, I have made visits to Folkston and once to Waycross. I have not seen so much rail traffic as I had seen while there. I would frequent Phillips Hwy and St. Augustine Rd in Jax during the late afternoon, to catch all the southbound freights on the FEC. Folkston is an amazing place, really loved it there and I didn't get much time in Waycross, but while I was there, the action was hot and heavy. Thanks for the reminder, Danny.....gotten get back and make a visit!
I’m not the biggest train fan in the world but I love your videos and really enjoy watching them. The way your videos are out together just has my attention all the way through! Take care and God bless sir!
That's a nice compliment, Tractor Man. Thanks!
Liking all the new titles and graphics. Nice work Danny!
I really enjoy your videos and watching them on my big screen makes it seem as if I'm right there with you ... but of course, that's not the case, and considering I live in London, Ontario, Canada, I don't get down your way very often so thanks so much for sharing your videos and knowledge about the traffic there.
Love this video. First time learning about Waycross Georgia. My mom said that my Great Grandfather was born there
Another great video Danny. Been hearing your unmistakable pipes on TV quite a lot lately. You are truly gifted.
Ive watched several of your videos and the narration is always spectacular!!!
Again another excellent informative video, you knock it out of the park every time.
Really well done Danny!
Wow!! This was great!!!!! And that engine yard was massive!!!!!
Loved this one Danny! Especially that drone shot of the storage line. It’s so sad that most of those engines are in the retirement or scrap line. Really was the days when those things ran. Well all we can do is make the most of what we got now. You do for sure!
Thanks Dakota. It's funny about old engines. They always start out new and everyone hating them. When CSX was running those B36-7's on almost every freight, we hated them. Now they're treasures we travel hundreds of miles to see. It'll be the same with these heavy Tier 4 GE's they're running now. Those will become scare someday. Just hope it's not from an invasion of foreign built power. Ha!
Awesome job of filming love trains very interesting
Glad you enjoyed
You’re videos are awesome. You do a great explaining everything. I haven’t done any railfanning in Waycross but I go to Folkston and see trains in Jacksonville, FL where I live. Keep the videos coming.
I'm a locomotive electrician in the Rice Yard here in Waycross. It is an EMD & GE shop ran by CSX but has GE (Wabtec now) technical directors to help facilitate repairs & parts. There's a "Modern Marvels" episode from about 12 or 13 years ago that has a closer look of our shop & service center. Enjoyed the video.
Wow! A great railfanning video. And only a one day excursion. I don't know what it is about railroads, but I enjoying Danny's videos. Thanks Danny.
I love these videos because I watch them and they remind me of my dad who passed on February 20th. He was a conductor for ACL, SCL, Seaboard system, and retired CSX out of Wilmington. He kept us fascinated with trains all our lives. We miss him so much.
I love watching your videos
One of the best channels of all time on TH-cam. No TV show touches this. Amazing production, quality footage and DH is just a legend and I could listen to him talking about anything.
Thanks for sharing!!! I am from Waycross and now live in FL. When I talk about our Rice Yard people go: "wait, what's a rice yard?" Here I thought, uneducated, that all of CSX yards were called rice yards🤦♀️ but it was just named after Thomas Rice.
Living in Ohio means that trips to places like Waycross come around only a few times a year. that said, we spend an afternoon in Waycross on the north end of Rice Yard, and watched seven trains over a 2 hour period. Amazing amount of rail traffic in this little town.
Ive been watching your videos for a while really cool my compliments sir
great train show video sir
Awesome video...my uncle was the mayor in the 70s and retired from the Rice Yard running the Seaboard Coast Line locomotive shop....they called it Waycross for the Crossing of the Ways....
Thanks Dan .For those of us FAR from R/R. Love always Signal readings innevery one and all of that series...NO SIR ...its not your simple roady way traffic lights. Thanks Danny. Love those zoom in for 1.5 miles away and Coming Fast. Eye Candy .
You did a great job and cannot wait to see next one!
Danny your videos are great,and I like your naration,I am an old Erie Lackawanna conductor that lived thru the Thanksgiving day wreck of 2ny100 at Windom Oh east of Kent terminal,I make it to Bradington Fl about every two years,I would like to meet you,have a safe day !
I appreciate you showing those of us who are new to railfanning good places to go!
at 7:53, CSX is complaining they dont have enough power for the trains, then they start leasing locomotives from PRLX, etc. then you see this..... LOL
danny harman is the best
I know right! He does an OUTSTANDING JOB!
You can say that again!
Danny when they run dpu s ic there a engineer's in the unit or automatically. ??
I agree
I agree with that
Another great video. Thank you Danny!
Holy $*** my jaw dropped when I saw all of those parked locomotives. This is now on my radar to fly over and picture!
Great action as always! Waycross looks quite fun!
Some one needs to build a railfan tower there so we can watch the trains
I live in the East Tennessee I love watching csx in my back yard
Kingsport or the old Erwin yard? I've worked in both.
Thank you M.r. Danny I really enjoy your videos have a good day
Really awesome narration Danny! Liked and subscribed!
Danny, like all your videos, well edited and full of information, but this topped it for me. Fantastic!! Thank you for sharing.
You got what you got.... you got a lot good show Danny 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I have to say sir.......I love your Hobby......God bless
This is one of the best channels on youtube!
Waycross is a really amazing railfan spot in Southeast Georgia also make sure to go to Jerry J's or Hog N Bones they are the same but its some good southern chicken 👌
Out of five stars, this video has definitely earned about seven. Excellent video, Danny!
Hi , Danny greetings from Alberta Canada...
New to ypur channel, been a huge railroad fan and Modeler for some years .
I was away from all of it for some years , and as of late Covid19 has given me the opportunity to ignite that old love for the railroad again.
Your coverage and commentary are perfect not to mention having a voice like the Guy who did the alot History channels commentary definitely is a huge asset...
Loved the video..
Great job..
Cheers 🥂 🇨🇦
Excellent video as usual Danny. Thank you from California!!
Clean video production, great voice-over. Thumbs up! Must put Waycross on my list of places to visit.
THANK YOU DANNY, i love your videos, very well made and i just really enjoy them, thank you again,.
The fact that all of that engine storage at Rice Yard is "only a fraction" of CSX's roster is mind-blowing. And to imagine all of the other Class I railroads' and short lines' power and rolling stock-- just incredible how massive this industry is. Fantastic video!
UP has something like 6500 locos, ~4300 are active as of late april and a report to the STB.
Even tho seeing this, 1 your later, I very much enjoyed it as I do enjoy all of your videos.
Great video danny,i live 100 feet from csx coal river sub not as busy now,but still hauling coal
Danny I love this video and I love the history of Waycross and the train keep up the great videos