A CSX Freight Takes the Tunnel, a Coal Train and Multiple Freights and Stacks at Inman

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
  • Without ATCS I have had to make some adjustments in my train watching. Howell wye is still the best place to see trains but without being able to tell what's coming it's hard to catch them with a drone, just not enough time to get in the air. I wrote an app for my phone that will take sound samples and tell me when a train is coming, but that would require I hide another phone someplace along the line, which is risky, but I've done it in the past, but the heat the problem. Leaving a phone running in typical Georgia heat will cause it to overheat and shut down. So that's not a viable option in summer. So the only spot I can really shoot from is Inman yard, which means missing a lot of the CSX action at Howell. Unfortunate, but that's how it is. At Inman yard I can hear trains coming from the west (usually), and using the webcam at Howell I can see trains heading towards Inman. So that's where I spent most of the day Sunday.
    We start this video with two freights meeting at Inman yard, one is going into the yard while the other waits for it to get out of the way. While that's going on an eastbound stack and rack sneaks up on us. As I mentioned you can "usually" hear when a train is approaching from the west, EXCEPT for when there are already other trains idling nearby that drown out the sound of the approaching train. The train going into Inman has a UP unit up front, and one of the DPU's in the middle is also a UP. Several Sandersville railroad wood chip hoppers on this train. Then we hear the horn blowing a few blocks to the south indicating a CSX train is approaching the Inman underpass, so we drop down and take a look. A nice YN2 leading a freight through the tunnels under the street and Inman yard. We follow it over to the other side and watch it head towards Pine street. This is a short train, most likely the rear of the train is still a ways back. CSX since closing their main yard have to shuttle cars back and forth between Pine street and Howell yard, usually involving multiple backing moves. The front cars are taken off the train then pulled up and backed over to Howell. Similarly cars are often backed out of Howell back to Pine street. It's awkward and time consuming but it gets the job done.
    Then we catch former 203 heading into Inman yard with the usual NS units up front and a couple in the middle. It's the longest train that comes off the Greenville line. I don't know it's current symbol. Don't really care. I'm just here to see trains. Then we see a yard crew working a stack train in the yard with some EMD ecco rebuilds. Then another train sneaks up on us, a southbound BNSF coal train with the usual BNSF up front but an NS and BNSF on the rear for some variety. And we close with the end of the stack train bringing in some UPS trailers on spine cars.

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