That NS Heritage Unit is too damn sweet looking and I managed to record it as she rolled through my area two months back. Sweet action as always, man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another superb showing of multiple trains in the Austell/Atlanta corridor. When I lived in the Kansas City area, I always called Kansas City MOO! LOL :o)
Enjoyed Austell video as always. Don't have a camcorder but my wife and I did Dalton yesterday. Great to be next to that horsepower. Saw CSX 211 autorack heading south and BNSF return to WY. Sad thing was, only 10 trains from 9am-3pm. Bit disappointing but still great to be there.
I'm glad you made it to Dalton. When I visited Dalton for the first time, I saw 5 track maintainers in 3 hours but no trains at all. Eventually you deal with CSX and NS, which means everything is possible lol. When they run without problems it is a nice location, though.
roger, roger. I have the Uniden BC72XLT HH with rubber ducky. I found the CMQ frequencies including their repeater but since I'm almost 30 miles away from the yard/dispatch center I'll need to put up a better fixed base antenna to hear anything but the bi-weekly trains. Those drop off and pick up tankers and hoppers to the main port and to GAC chemical. The GAC stuff is mostly clay slurries and bleaching agents for the pulp and paper mills in Maine. I have a 20 foot fiberglass pole antenna resonant in the 160MHz band so I'll try that this spring on top of my 50 foot ham tower. A vhf beam would be better though. Keep putting those great vids up!
@mbmars01 You know which heritage unit is a rare find leading NS 186? The Reading unit #1067 along with another range of KCS locomotives, one is "KCS De Mexico" and one is for the normal stuff. Good start!
Those heritage units are always pretty sweet to catch. I have shot the Lehigh Valley, Jersey Central, and Savannah and Atlanta with camera. Have seen the Reading, Lackawanna, New York Central, and N&W from a distance. Just missed seeing the Virginian unit on the Q138 yesterday because of MofW had the track in front of me. Great video as always. Always interesting to see what the competition is doing. Be safe out there. CSX#237377
That's right. I wish, CSX had a more visible heritage program. The stickers on their special units are so small that I don't even see them on my little display when I'm filming - only later during video production lol.
mbmars01 You're right about them being too small. Got on the Gainesville Midland unit early one morning this past summer and didn't realize what engine it was until daylight. And to top it off. The heritage stickers are also peeling off, amazing.
That Reading unit is just gorgeous! So nice to see these living swaths of history kept looking good and useful. They could have just slapped an NS paint job on it, or worse, shipped it off to LTEX. Nice to see that much regard for history and heritage!
Yea. The NS mainline still goes through there. They have a rail yard on the west side. A lot of traffic on the Harrisburg line. NS gets there ballast from Dyers Quarry in Gibraltar, just east of Reading. The quarry has been operating for over a hundred years. Reading Lines still pulls anthracite coal from north of Reading.
Hi MBMARS. I started off this morning enjoying your video I just finished it in the Union at the University of Maine. I have a IPad 10.5 I traded in the one I had. The new iPad has better sound and great graphics to watch your 4K videos. I’m glad I made the change it has loads of storage 256. Did you happen to notice the graffiti around 30 minute mark? It was on one of the auto racks I did a double take never seen it before. Thanks for all you work I deeply appreciate. Please take care. One more thing I thought it was unusual to see KCS Mexico
Thanks. No, I didn't notice. I see so much graffiti that I don't pay much attention anymore. I once saw a nice version of Goofy which I liked (it's in one of the earlier videos). UP has its hands on Mexican railroading and KCS has, too. It doens't happen too often here in GA to see KCSM, though.
ok 2 questions I have and love your train videos as always1 I thought NS usually uses their own engines when they do DPU moves, Can any engine companies from any branch of railroad be used as DPU's for other companies if they have a contract or require it? and the reason why I asked is because I saw a KCS engine being used in a DPU move which is why I am asking2 What is the Bee line Service? Is it affiliated with any particular railroad companies? or do they have their own place they are based out of? because I am thinking its a rare engine to see just my opinion I may be wrong though.thank you for your time as always and have a great day keep up making awesome train videos,
TheBamaGuy334 Yes any Railroad can use each other's locomotives for DPU service. Bee Line Service was a Reading Railroad Service slogan used back in the late 1960's and early 1970's. It was used only on their six axle locomotives. The SD45's, U30C's, and the second order of C630's had the slogan on the long hoods. Hope that helps ya out.
Been following your vids for a few weeks now. Central Maine & Quebec (CMQ) runs through my town and has a junction yard not too far away in Bangor, Maine. What type of scanner are you using, and what frequencies? I have a BearCat HH I'm wondering if I can use to check out where they are when the make the run to Searsport, ME Saturdays and Wednesdays. tnx
Excellent Day On the Rails UP, NS, BNSF, KCS, KCSM, And A Heritage Unit. Plus A P40DC And CEFX edit: Even A Lashup Of All Retired/NS Rebuild Program Units SD70 Standard Cab And 2 8900 Series Dash 9's Also I Love That P5 From 7314
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That NS Heritage Unit is too damn sweet looking and I managed to record it as she rolled through my area two months back. Sweet action as always, man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very nice! Cool, thanks.
mbmars01 Born and raised in Reading,PA. My grandfather worked for Reading Railroad. Great to see Reading Lines loco out of the area.
That's cool!
I absolutely amazed at hom many ns trains their are keep up the good work Mbmars01
That's one of the hot spots in the southern NS network.
yea you can tell that hotspot of how many that go through there everyday
Awesome shots. My favourite NS heritage locomotive also. I've only ever seen once. Excellent video.
Thank you! My favorite is #8101, Central of Georgia...
Wabash 1070 ...
8103 and 8101 and others.
This was a great shot. And also a great location to take videos from. Great job well done. Can't wait until you bring me more train videos.😁
I'm happy you enjoyed it. It's a nice and busy spot, but filming is not easy there. Too many cars, power poles, bushes,...
Another superb showing of multiple trains in the Austell/Atlanta corridor. When I lived in the Kansas City area, I always called Kansas City MOO! LOL :o)
Ha, KCS is awesome. For us, it is a special event to catch KCS units...
Magnificent work his video has a great variety of power which makes it terrific
Robert.
Thanks, Robert. Glad you enjoyed it.
Awesome action there, good job
Cool, thanks!
Another awesome video, mbmars01! Keep up the excellent work and videos!
Thank you!
Cool video with great footage.enjoyed seeing the heritage unit.
Very cool, I'm happy you liked it!
Enjoyed Austell video as always. Don't have a camcorder but my wife and I did Dalton yesterday. Great to be next to that horsepower. Saw CSX 211 autorack heading south and BNSF return to WY. Sad thing was, only 10 trains from 9am-3pm.
Bit disappointing but still great to be there.
I'm glad you made it to Dalton. When I visited Dalton for the first time, I saw 5 track maintainers in 3 hours but no trains at all. Eventually you deal with CSX and NS, which means everything is possible lol. When they run without problems it is a nice location, though.
roger, roger. I have the Uniden BC72XLT HH with rubber ducky. I found the CMQ frequencies including their repeater but since I'm almost 30 miles away from the yard/dispatch center I'll need to put up a better fixed base antenna to hear anything but the bi-weekly trains. Those drop off and pick up tankers and hoppers to the main port and to GAC chemical. The GAC stuff is mostly clay slurries and bleaching agents for the pulp and paper mills in Maine.
I have a 20 foot fiberglass pole antenna resonant in the 160MHz band so I'll try that this spring on top of my 50 foot ham tower. A vhf beam would be better though.
Keep putting those great vids up!
Wow that's awesome. I haven't tried out many options yet, but my home base works okay-ish near my line.
Awesome video again. If you look closely UP 8332 has a K5HL horn configuration
Thank you. Good you enjoyed it.
MBMars. Keep 'em coming. I always enjoy your vids!
Thank you so much!
Terrific catches! Awesome catches of foreign power!
Thanks! It was a good day in Austell. I still remember it.
awesome power and lashup's. awesome catches. awesome catch of NS Heritage Unit #1067.
also i have catch NS #1069 Virginia last night on Q138.
Excellent! Catching an HU is always a special event.
thank you i agree.
Really enjoyed the video!!..Keep them rolling in mate.
Thanks, glad you did! I'll do what I can.
good video. keep them coming. always like watching .trains are cool..
Thank you!
@mbmars01 You know which heritage unit is a rare find leading NS 186? The Reading unit #1067 along with another range of KCS locomotives, one is "KCS De Mexico" and one is for the normal stuff. Good start!
Wow! The Reading Heritage unit (locomotive SD70ACe #1067) has led NS 186 through Austell this morning! What a catch! :)
great job mbmars 01 can't wait for your brand new video in a few days
Lol, hope I get to the next soon.
Im a big fan of yours keep railfanning. And ne safe
Thanks - always ;)
Those heritage units are always pretty sweet to catch.
I have shot the Lehigh Valley, Jersey Central, and Savannah and Atlanta with camera.
Have seen the Reading, Lackawanna, New York Central, and N&W from a distance.
Just missed seeing the Virginian unit on the Q138 yesterday because of MofW had the track in front of me.
Great video as always. Always interesting to see what the competition is doing.
Be safe out there.
CSX#237377
Daniel Sprowl you miss Q138 i have catch it last night. if i understand it will be on Q137 today.
That's right. I wish, CSX had a more visible heritage program. The stickers on their special units are so small that I don't even see them on my little display when I'm filming - only later during video production lol.
i agree 100% on that.
mbmars01
You're right about them being too small.
Got on the Gainesville Midland unit early one morning this past summer and didn't realize what engine it was until daylight.
And to top it off. The heritage stickers are also peeling off, amazing.
yea cool.
great video liked all of the trains
Many thanks.
Great catches, good video.
Cool, glad you like it.
Nice catches of the trains.
That Reading unit is just gorgeous! So nice to see these living swaths of history kept looking good and useful. They could have just slapped an NS paint job on it, or worse, shipped it off to LTEX. Nice to see that much regard for history and heritage!
dude awesome video a lot of union pacific and kansas city southern great catches i should go there!
Thanks. I haven't been there in a while, but these UP and KCS trains still run, so they certainly do have foreign power at times.
you are so lucky I wish i was you to see all of these beautiful locomotives
What means lucky. One has to go to where the trains are. Austell is 2 hours from where I live...
great video mbars01
Thanks!
Great video, love it!
Cool, thank you!
Yea. The NS mainline still goes through there. They have a rail yard on the west side. A lot of traffic on the Harrisburg line. NS gets there ballast from Dyers Quarry in Gibraltar, just east of Reading. The quarry has been operating for over a hundred years. Reading Lines still pulls anthracite coal from north of Reading.
great video loved it
Thanks!
Hi MBMARS. I started off this morning enjoying your video I just finished it in the Union at the University of Maine. I have a IPad 10.5 I traded in the one I had. The new iPad has better sound and great graphics to watch your 4K videos. I’m glad I made the change it has loads of storage 256. Did you happen to notice the graffiti around 30 minute mark? It was on one of the auto racks I did a double take never seen it before. Thanks for all you work I deeply appreciate.
Please take care. One more thing I thought it was unusual to see KCS Mexico
Thanks. No, I didn't notice. I see so much graffiti that I don't pay much attention anymore. I once saw a nice version of Goofy which I liked (it's in one of the earlier videos). UP has its hands on Mexican railroading and KCS has, too. It doens't happen too often here in GA to see KCSM, though.
Super video
Great, thank you!
Awesome, enjoyed watching your video. I'm your #100th like !
That's awesome. Many thanks!
Nice Job Man keep up the good work
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
At 2:06 nobody goes all the way down there to record where the bnsf sd70ace is?
Spectacular video. How many trains do they get a day down there.
Cool, thanks. 50 trains is probably a good guess.
Cool video
Great, thanks.
BNSF #5723 (ES40DC) is the Evolution Series Prototype but wears the H2 paint scheme.
Cool video but questions Whats with the stripes on 1067? I just now saw that..
Thanks!
ok 2 questions I have and love your train videos as always1 I thought NS usually uses their own engines when they do DPU moves, Can any engine companies from any branch of railroad be used as DPU's for other companies if they have a contract or require it? and the reason why I asked is because I saw a KCS engine being used in a DPU move which is why I am asking2 What is the Bee line Service? Is it affiliated with any particular railroad companies? or do they have their own place they are based out of? because I am thinking its a rare engine to see just my opinion I may be wrong though.thank you for your time as always and have a great day keep up making awesome train videos,
TheBamaGuy334
Yes any Railroad can use each other's locomotives for DPU service.
Bee Line Service was a Reading Railroad Service slogan used back in the late 1960's and early 1970's.
It was used only on their six axle locomotives.
The SD45's, U30C's, and the second order of C630's had the slogan on the long hoods.
Hope that helps ya out.
thank you Daniel for answering my questions have a great day
TheBamaGuy334
You to. Glad to help.
CSX#237377
Thanks, glad you like the video. And thanks to Daniel for answering the questions.
@mbmars01 Did you catch NS 187 with a KCSM (Kansas City Southern de Mexico) AC44 at mid-DPU?
Mbmars how it going.You still railfanning.On ns east end and atlanta south that was. A reading line sd70ace.
It's going well, thanks :)
Been following your vids for a few weeks now. Central Maine & Quebec (CMQ) runs through my town and has a junction yard not too far away in Bangor, Maine. What type of scanner are you using, and what frequencies? I have a BearCat HH I'm wondering if I can use to check out where they are when the make the run to Searsport, ME Saturdays and Wednesdays. tnx
Nice! I use a Uniden BC125AT as a handheld scanner with a Smiley antenna.
Was Inman Yard congested or something? Most of those eastbounds were just creeping, or is it always like that?
I visit Austell so rarely that I cannot really judge, but experience shows that rail traffic near big yards is typically rather slow.
anybody see the car @29:45 hit the crossing gate?
Does NS 226 start in California?
Excellent Day On the Rails
UP, NS, BNSF, KCS, KCSM, And A Heritage Unit. Plus A P40DC And CEFX
edit: Even A Lashup Of All Retired/NS Rebuild Program Units
SD70 Standard Cab
And 2 8900 Series Dash 9's
Also I Love That P5 From 7314
There's typically something interesting to catch in Austell. Unfortunately, view-wise and light-wise this place is not very camera friendly.
Ahh.. good ole NS 186 on the north end. Worst mistake NS decided to do with that beast.. but all else ran pretty well that day.
Yeah, 200+ cars... Crazy.
wow 226 goes from LA to ATL. How long do you think that takes?
Good question - I'd guess 4-5 days? I would think some of these trains are "hot" and pushed through at any cost.
mbmars01 cool, you should come back up to Chattanooga sometime
Yep... I have told myself several times this year that I should do it. It's so beautiful and rail action is good.
what camera are you shooting with
This was shot with a Panasonic camcorder WXF991.
I got my frist sd70ace hertige 1069 2 months ago
That's awesome. Only 19 left :)
I’m down to 11 left
Anyone else see Stobe?
If he was in the first unit of the BNSF DPU set, then yes...
Anyone else see Stone?
It's pretty dumb to see NS 22Q rescued by a standard cab SD70. Hopefully the BN railroad retired all their SD9 engines. Oh well... :(
BNSF coal train
Yep.