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Levisa River Rail Productions
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On this channel, you'll find videos taken mostly along Norfolk Southern's Pocahontas Division. The Pokey is home to the greatest railroaders on Norfolk Southern. I hope you enjoy!
-Chase
-Chase
NS Action in Virginia, Kentucky, and West Virginia
Hey folks, I know it's been a while since I've posted a full featured video on here. This is a compilation of videos I shot with my old camcorder that never made the cut to get on one of my DVDs. Since I have upgraded to a 4k camcorder, this would have just sat on my drive unused so I figured I would share it with y'all. If y'all hadn't found out, I got hired my NS back in January and am currently on the conductor's extra list at Weller. It took six years but here we are lol. I hope y'all enjoy! This video is dedicated to my longtime friend, yardmaster/engineer/conductor Anthony 'Coop' Cooper. Coop was the last General Yardmaster they had at Weller Yard until the position was abolished in the summer of 2015 and I spent a lot of time up in the office with him when I was in high school. He has made several appearances on my videos over the years rather it him hanging out of the window waving when he was conductor or giving horn shows as engineer. Coop was a good friend, and my heart goes out to his wife Renae and daughter Paige. If you like my stuff, check out my brother Joe's UA-cam channel @Raitt Mountain Media.
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NS G15 (1-19-22) McDonough Local W/Awesome Leslie RS5T Horn
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I uploaded this for sound more or less. I shot this while on lunch break from the NS Training Center back in January. This motor was on the Auville Work Train (RIP) a few years ago but I never got to shoot it.
Jeff Shelton Trucking's Sharp Pete 359 W/Train Horn-Page, VA
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Jeff Shelton Trucking has a pretty neat collection of old trucks on his roster. This one is no exception, cool driver too. He also has two Ford L9000s, I've managed to get one on camera. I shot this the other day while I was waiting on U60 to come down the holler from Consol. I've been hired by Norfolk Southern as a conductor out of Roanoke, Virginia and am working on one final DVD with Green F...
NS 821 (8-14-21) NS 9825 Leads W/Engineer Dale Long at Hurley
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Here's 821 rolling through Hurley with 105 empties for Consol. Seeing the old Dash 9 leading was a nice break from the seemingly endless parade of AC power I've been getting lately. I'd like to thank Dale for the heads up on this train. I've been dealing with some health issues here lately and haven't been able to get out much. My brother cade accompanied me for this train yesterday. NS D9-44CW...
NS U56 (4-14-21) Storage Empties W/Engineer James Coleman
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On April 14th, James and his conductor took a set of light motors over to Lester's Fork to grab 56 empties that have been stored in the back track for the last several months. Here we see them coming off the hill at Thomas Wye. This is another test video for my new camcorder.
NS 80R (4-26-21) Sony AX-43 4K Test
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This is just a test video for my new camera. Here we see the Roadswitcher running light at Virginia Lee, Engineer Mark Martin was taking the motors over to deliver empties to the Race Fork operation
Branchlines of the N&W Volume 3: Levisa Branch
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I'd like to thank the following people for their help on this program. Robby Vaughn Engineer Mark Martin Daniel Boyden (Amtrakseptaguy11) Conductor William Stacy Frank Crowe Ed Painter
NS 56W (12-21-19) NS 8131 Leads W/Engineer John Sammons
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Here's NS 56W pulling out of the yard at Williamson with Engineer John "WaterDog" Sammons at the throttle.
The Levisa Branch Collection
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This is a collection of videos that dates back to the very beginning of when I started shooting video of trains on the Levisa Branch. Having grown up right beside the Levisa Branch, it's my favorite piece of railroad. It may be a 13 mile, 10 MPH branchline to anyone else but this is where my interest for trains begun. Just about all these clips where taken in my Grandparents' backyard. These cl...
The Buchanan County Tourist Railroad Part 1: The Vision
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The Facebook Page: Buctouristtrain The Petition: www.change.org/p/local-government-buchanan-county-tourist-railroad?source_location=petition_nav
Branchlines of the N&W Part 2: The Big Prater Creek Spur
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Special thanks to Engineer Mark Martin for giving me the run down on how the mine was delivered and pulled and to B.A. Harrison for the AWESOME shot of the dinky with the mine in the background.
NS Buchanan Branch (4-20/4-23-19) Goin' Across The Hill
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We start out with NS U57, the 5 PM job out of Weller, as they start up the grade at Thomas with 98 loads of Cleveland Coke in a steady drizzle. Engineer Mark Martin and Conductor Bobby Ooten would take the train over to the Extension and tie it down. Pusher J81 with Engineer Thomas "P Tom" Perry is shoving on the rear. The ACs where slipping on the wet rail, I've heard many engineers say that t...
NS Buchanan Branch (4-17-19) Heritage Headin' to Consol
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On Wednesday April 17th, Krissy and I headed up to Dismal to find the NKP 8100 fixing to depart for Consol on the rear of an empty train. I knew the locomotive was running around thanks to a tip from my buddy Joseph Grof. We headed up to Page Jct to wait for it. Pusher J79 was leading the train (U55) up the holler. The power on the pusher is a freshly rebuilt SD70ACC. You can see my cousin WJ (...
NS Buchanan Branch (3-10-19) Hey Krissy, Here Comes Another One
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On March 10th, we left our house knowing that 2 empty trains where coming out of Bluefield. We arrived at Thomas and a brief check of the signal revealed that we had an eastbound coming. A few minutes later, my buddy Bobby Ooten brought pusher J77 off the hill. We had evidently missed a hillrun earlier in the day. About 15 minutes after Bobby cleared, we heard the Clinch Valley Dispatcher talki...
NS U58 (1-23-19) Westbound Loads at Hurley
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Here you see our Kristen & I's friends Mark and AJ bringing a loaded train off the hill at Hurley. The only time we ever get to go out and get to chase trains together is at night because she has to work all the time...Oh well. They where relieved by 82J at Pine Oaks and we shot pusher J81 returning east after he had cut off at Luke.
NS U60 (10-24-18) NS 9480 Leads W/ Engineer H.D. Kiser
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NS U60 (10-24-18) NS 9480 Leads W/ Engineer H.D. Kiser
NS U61 (10-8-18) Coke Empties W/Awesome Horn Show
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NS U61 (10-8-18) Coke Empties W/Awesome Horn Show
Update One: I'm Officially Signed With Green Frog Productions Ltd
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Update One: I'm Officially Signed With Green Frog Productions Ltd
Chasing Q692 North on the Clinchfield!
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Chasing Q692 North on the Clinchfield!
Norfolk Southern on the N&W- Summer 2018
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Norfolk Southern on the N&W- Summer 2018
NS Action on the Atlanta North District Summer 2018
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NS Action on the Atlanta North District Summer 2018
NS U55 & J80 (3-7-18) Westbound Consol Train at East End Weller
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NS U55 & J80 (3-7-18) Westbound Consol Train at East End Weller
Branchlines of The N&W Part 1: The Lenore Branch
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Branchlines of The N&W Part 1: The Lenore Branch
10:41 217/218 are the train numbers. 215/216 are RatHole trains. Dispatchers usually try to run 201/202 right on their heels.
I realized I got my wires crossed on those a few days after I posted this lol. They renumbered 217/218 to 29C/28N right after I hired in 2021.
Great job on this video.
Love that Chase 😊
Norfolk southern railroad loves to put smiles on our faces
Hi 👋
Lucky 🥲
Thank you for sharing Sir!
Excellent job on filming absolutely beautiful
Nicce!!! Want likes? -> *PromoSM*!!!
SD70M is an incredible rarity for Norfolk Southern
Wonderful chase !!! James.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'm a conductor on this very same line now.
The NS d-9 #9313 leading a coal is at Cove PA
Nah that’s at Thomas Wye, VA on the Buchanan Branch
The Horn At 1:09 Sounds n.v So great like UP 1989 Rio Grande Heritage Unit from UP
Wow awesome horn shows especially loved the EX Conrail Dash8 I catch the B&P in Butler pa which most of their roster is ex Conrail
The waterdog
Hi, Chase, trust all is well with you and yours, keep safe and all the very best for 2022.
Feel better soon man, love your videos of the Buchanan branch. Very helpful in my modeling ....
Good for you man. I also joined them in 2020.
Can you tell us when to expect the second installment of “Hot Rails through coal county “?
Nice
Great to see you out chasing and filming Trains again Chase, trust that you and Chrissy are both well.
Hey Peter, great to hear from you. We are well, trying to stay safe amidst all the craziness in the world right now. I hope you and Carol are well also, shoot me an email sometime and I'll give you our new address!
Nice video
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
The camcorder look great!
Thanks man!
@@Pocaconductor22 anytime!
Awesome dude! Hope it's a good camcorder for ya!
Thanks Alex, I love it so far!
Toooop!
The horns and heritage units are awesome!
HOW HOW SO MANY HERITAGE UNITS it’s tuff when you live on the kanawha river railroad line
The way the K5LLAs just echo through the mountains....holy crap
Yea man, they sound good in the hills. Thanks for watching
They sound awesome when echoing off of the hills. Pretty much everywhere they sound awesome.
Congrats on 300 subscribers Chase! I've been really happy to be here every step of the way! Be safe God bless! Your the man!
Thanks man, I'm glad you've been here! I'm gonna start on a new documentary tonight. It'll be a little different from stuff I usually post but it still has to do with the railroad, stay tuned! Take care and god bless you buddy!
@@Pocaconductor22 yes sir can't wait! Are you gonna apply for NS in the next hiring session?
@@garrinhatfield40 I absolutely am, hopefully I'll have better luck next time! I'm hoping to have it out before the end of the week...I have the script wrote and the pictures I want to use picked out. All I have to do is record the narration and put the video together.
@@Pocaconductor22 ok nice! I wish the best of luck to you in the hiring session whenever it is! If you get the job I will chase you if your on the kenova or pocahontas division and if I have time maybe at Weller.
@@garrinhatfield40 I'd say if I was to get hired I'd be all over lol. I'd want to get qualified everywhere I could. My cousin WJ was working the BL pool taking time freights from Bluefield to Portsmouth, Ohio.
love the vids
I'm glad you enjoy them!
Great catch Chase! I have 2 questions how many trains run on the Buchanan branch a day and how often is it for you to see foreign power?
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I've not got to shoot many BNSF Dash 9s, little lone 2 on the same train! My guess is 4-5 on a good day counting pushers coming back. I recorded 13 movements going by my aunt's house at Kopp (between Raitt and Hurley)in a 24 hour period back in 2013...That was including pushers coming back. That was a crazy day and I wish I would have been into video then. To answer the foreign power question, UP power was so common in 2017-2018 I didn't pay it no attention. Until a few weeks ago, I hadn't seen a foreign motor on the branch in over a year. There was a coke train that came in with 2 UP motors for power, of course it was dark ARG! I've seen CSX, UP, BNSF, KCS, CP, CN and many oddball leased motors over the years...Now I'm happy if I can bag an engine in the old NS paint scheme leading a train lol. If you are on Facebook, join the "Norfolk Southern's Buchanan Branch" group. I'm an admin and I'll approve ya!
@@Pocaconductor22 yea I'm glad I'm starting at a early age! Here in Logan WV here is 2-3 on a good day. I've been thinking and if I can't get a job down at Williamson I'm planning on coming down to weller and work and if your still railfanning there i will throw ya some ns stuff and maybe a cab tour
@@garrinhatfield40 I've tried to get on in both Weller and Williamson with no luck...If they ever have another hiring session I'm gonna give it another whirl and see what happens.
@@Pocaconductor22 I hope they do I have a friend that had to go through 6 interviews to be a conductor on the Alabama division he said just keep trying and they will hire you. If you do get the job holler at me and I will chase the train your on.
@@garrinhatfield40 Yea man, it's a long drawn out process. I'd love for ya to come out and chase me if I get a job with them, I'd make it fun for you the same way the guys have made it fun for me all these years lol.
Great Views
Thank you!
Great video ... I came through here around 2013 and the mine works were completely removed at that time. It was a nice line to walk on and see the hills. Would anyone know what mines are still loading in the area? I presume the Buchanon mine and 2-3 loadouts on Levisa fork below Weller yard are about all that's left these days??
There's Race Fork over around Hurley, then Buc II, Kyber and Big Creek on the Levisa Branch, then the coke plant and Buchanan No1
@@Pocaconductor22 Things have really gone downhill in the KY-VA-WVA area. I see a few loadouts left around Harlan but less and less overall. Around Grundy (your area) all the VPs are gone, except for Buchanon No. 1 I believe.
@@Pocaconductor22 Any word on the Clinchfield lines? Has the spur from near McClure to Moss #1 been ripped out? They closed the last mine a few years back, but it was already trucked to McClure of all places. Is McClure still loading.
@@Pocaconductor22 How about the line S of Nora. It was overgronw in 2013, as was the line East of Haysi. I know you mainly so NS, but Clinchfield had some great lines as well.
@@marchevka22x that’s right. The last VP was reclaimed in 2014. Are you on Facebook
Excellent Video thanks for sharing it with us enjoyed watching your video
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Merry Christmas!
Glad I stumbled on to this video. Ciao trains in the snow, can’t get any better. Now to watch the rest of them!
I’m glad you enjoyed it. I’ve only been lucky enough to get a handful in the snow. This was the best one but I’m hoping we get a snowy winter this year. I’m working for Green Frog now and almost all of my footage goes to them.
Levisa River Rail Productions , if you go to my channel, look for a video called NS coal mine run. I was checking out that old boxcar at what I think is Marrowbone Junction and heard a horn. Just got lucky.
Thom Placier yessir that’s Marrowbone jct
Great video chase! I'm glad your back I missed these videos and I hope you and your family will be ok during this pandemic
Thanks bud, I've missed making content for everyone. We are doing well, no one has been sick thank god. I hope y'all are doing well too. Stay safe!
@@Pocaconductor22 we are doing well thanks! Welcome back Chase by the way! God bless you and your family
Garrin Hatfield same to you brother
@@Pocaconductor22 thanks brother! Do you know if buchanan County is going to have a tourist railroad because if they are i will make sure to come down and ride it
@@garrinhatfield40 We tried to get it off the ground but the county wouldn't bite. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Hope you have many more videos to come, really missed them. Railroads were at war with each other to gain access to the coal seams. The mine you spoke of that was" haunted", that would have some really interesting history behind it.... maybe a cool upcoming video to??
I’m glad you enjoyed it! You haven’t seen the last of Bain yet, that’s all I’ll say :)
Great video and information! Keep on keeping on! Maybe soon I can get you some videos from Oklahoma
@@scottyneeley3309 Thanks Scotty, I appreciate it brother. Looking forward to seeing your videos!
A caboose?
Yup, they still use them here sometimes.
Cool
Great video! Do you know the radio frequency for the whole dry fork branch?
i can hardly get hornshows i have been railfaning since i was 3 and i got alot but no shave and a haircuts i got 1 jingle bells how do u get so much?
I know most of these guys personally. I met most of them through my cousin, he appears in this video several times.
Levisa River Rail Productions What branch cause i Railfan the Pocahontas the best one i know on there is Kevin Fry and Keith Anderson
@@railfannick2690 These where all taken on the Pocahontas Division, mainly the Buchanan Branch. I know Kevin Fry too, he works outta Bluefield.
@@Pocaconductor22 Yea he was pulling a 12r and he said "if we weren't stopped right in front of the office i would let you on board"
@@Pocaconductor22 Cause he had to stop in bluefield yard to get gassed up
Thanks Chase for sharing this with us! I love these branch line videos! Could you ever figure out how many trains Ragland complex loads a Week? Thanks, Garrin
Still loving those videos Levisa River Rail Productions! Also I went to Williamson today and I saw 5 trains I saw NS 744, NS 236,NS 133,NS 217, and NS 218. I went by the ragland and delbarton mining complexes the ragland mine loaded a train yesterday but they was running coal and had quite a bit of coal in there stock pile. At the Delbarton mine every stacker was filled to the brim with coal. Thanks for reading this comment!
Great video! How have you been?
Thank you! I've been doing good, working a lot lol. Between moving, working, and shooting for my next DVD I've been covered up. I'm actually working on the script for it as we speak. I hope your and your family are well, stay safe!
@@Pocaconductor22 same to you sir. I am actually going to order an dvd from your company it is going to be the coal train on the Buckhannon branch.
Garrin Hatfield the Buchanan Branch movie will be out here in a few weeks. We're in the process of putting everything together
@@Pocaconductor22 yes sir I can't wait thanks for the hard work and also are you going to make a movie on the kenova district and the branch lines of it
Garrin Hatfield it's on my to do list pal. Especially the branches
Great video but where is beech creek I've been trying to find it to railfan
Beech Creeks kinda in the middle of no where. You have to go down a dirt road to get there.
@@Pocaconductor22 ok do you know where I could find it on maps by any chance
Thanks for sharing I subbed and liked I hope you do the same to me to!
Love this video can you make more on the lenore branch plz keep up the great work what is the frequency for there if you don't mind
Railfan Rowan Fan I'll try my best to get more trains out there. 161.490 I think is the frequency
@@Pocaconductor22 ok thanks
Also do you think 161.250 will work there also
SMT mainline Fan 161.250 is the Pokey dispatcher and their territory ends at Williamson. Kenova dispatches the Lenore Branch, 161.490
@@Pocaconductor22 yes sir I went to Williamson yesterday and I used 161 250 and I could here them clear up to Naugatuck if you would like to check that out but sorry for bothering you I was just wondering and love the work keep up the amazing work 👏 Edit: 160:650 also works on the pokey
I know that you don't get on here very often, but if you do got a kinda dumb question for you, has NS switched to mid train DPU'S on the pocahontas division or they still running manned helpers? Very beautiful video you did a great job good luck with green frog.
Lee Jones I really appreciate it! I'm working on the first volume of my branchlines & coal mines series for them now. They still run manned pushers but have cut several off and run DPs on some trains now.
@@Pocaconductor22 ah thanks for the answer and anytime your videos are amazing
Lee Jones your very welcome. I'm glad you enjoy them. I'm without a laptop right now but I'll try to get back to posting occasionally when I get a new one.
@@Pocaconductor22 understandable I've been in your position, it just sucks UA-cam doesn't allow photo responses or I'd post my photos from the Pocahontas Division
Lee Jones add me on Facebook brother. Profile pictures me and Krissy.
What is the radio frequency for the Buchanan branch also nice video I liked and subscribed
Railfan Rowan Fan hey bud I appreciate that! 161.190
@@Pocaconductor22 thanks sir I really enjoy them
where did u filmed this Norfolk Southern horn show
They where filmed in Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia and Georgia
@@Pocaconductor22 thx brotha