Відео

I don’t think NS is going to bother to fix this. My guess is they will donate the land to the State of NC and they can pay for repairs if they want to extend the commuter line.

Nice work flying that drone. I appreciate you doing this.

Down in Fletcher the tracks washed out around Cane Creek near where the Cranston Plant was. I live in Hendersonville and we have lots of “decommissioned” railroad cars being stored on the unused tracks down here. I’m guessing that they will be there for a very long time with all of the railroad track damage from Helene in WNC.

thanks will cost lost of $$$$$$ to rebuild and the music is awesome

Final analysis from the video: Lots of holes in the roadbeds, some washouts, especially right outside of Old Fort and 1 near Ridgecrest, a good amount of downed trees, even some damaged bridges. The line looks repairable, but with the decrease in traffic, I think NS might abandon it. It would be nice to see the line get restored.

I take it, NS doesn’t have the financial reserves and/or connections with the federal government to make the same kind of progress here, that CSX is reporting on their stretch of road in this area. Beautiful video, and hauntingly pleasing soundtrack.

I was expecting worse. Glad to see so much intact railbed and track that is accessible.

Excellent, as we’ve come to expect from you! The “road” (I use the term loosely!) that appears to somewhat follow the line, is that old Hwy 70? And if so, is it passable?

Take that drone and go check out the Clinchfield loops next. Supposed to be a big washout just south of Rocky siding.

The damage did not look that severe once away from the geyser area but I have serious doubts this line will be rebuilt unless the state kicks in some $$ because they want commuter type service to Asheville. Hurts to see all that damage. This was my favorite part of the SR during my 13 year tenure there.

more video

I don't believe Norfolk Southern will repair the track between Asheville and Old Fort.

Where is this? USA?Canada?

thanks very impressive with the msic mke more dramatic, hope it will be repaird

GREAT FOOTAGE ! Love the coverage here. IF these tracks are repaired that really cinches my general theory There is NO useless trackage routes left. All remaining routes have some sort of plan, future traffic, bolstering present traffic, storage, future passenger train state funding, who knows?

Very cool

Once again great footage 👍

I'm guessing they're not even going to bother rebuilding this? Doesn't look like they've even begun to yet. First Saluda grade, and now the Loops. Sad.

From what I have seen, the Old Fort to Coleman section is in way better shape then Asheville to Marshall.

Would make a nice rails to trail greenway.

glad u shared this, you did alot of work & time to do so

Yep, looks like we’ll be waiting for that Asheville-Salisbury Amtrak connection a lot longer now. Very good footage, hope everyone involved is okay.

Good capture and editing for a near seamless product. Could consider increasing the content value with highly selective text of narration as explanation/context.

Good flying through the tunnels and trees. At least the higher you go it’s getting a little better but after Ridgecrest it is going to get bad again. I don’t see how the little bit of traffic left in this line is worth rebuilding it without coal traffic. I know it’s a long way up to Roanoke and back around to North Carolina but that’s a lot of time and money to fix this.

Thank you for your effort. Substantial amount of erosion damage to repair and stabilize. Wonder if NS will do that work given a low usage line?!! Humbling to see the magnitude of the damage!!

love that Southern lash up! awesome trains all around :)

ARE U GOING TO MAKE A MORE VIEDOS

Very nice drone work. I was expecting the damage to be much worse.

Unbelievable amount of damage on the Loops. Thanks for sharing.

As comical as a Climax pulling an autorack looks, the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum made an even silly-er-looking move in 1:1 scale earlier this year: ua-cam.com/video/8f_aT920IPw/v-deo.html

😔😔 hope they’ll be able to fix it. I think they said it be a 3 month rebuild but will see.

The peak water at the six minute mark must’ve been horrifying

A heartbreaking and memorable video of an area I know so well. We were trapped at a Bed & Breakfast between Old Fort and Ridgecrest due to road washouts and landslides. Five days after Helene hit we hiked out toward Ridgecrest leaving our cars behind. A month later we returned to retrieve our car after the road to Old Fort was repaired. We’ve hiked beside these rails for years and love the area. Thanks for shooting this unique look at this region. It will be sad if the rails are not repaired, but from a cost benefit analysis, they might just abandon it.

Good job on the drone footage. Interestingly, repair work hasn’t started yet. Might be because the road is closed near Ridgecrest because of a washout. I don’t know what happened to the gravel road. If there is no repairs for a bit, then we can call the loops abandoned

Soundtrack was Excellent. Most fitting. TY. I was really effected by the whole presentation!!

Great video!

I worked for Southern, 6/65-8/78 and monthly I measured R&R on the unit trains. I've been over this line (and Saluda) at least 90 times and it hurts to see some of the best 19th century engineering laid to waste. I got to wonder if it is worthwhile for NS to rebuild this mess. There is no business between RidgeCrest and Old Fort. As a shareholder I hope they don't, seems like a waste of money, but as a railfan since the age of 2, I hope it is rebuilt, better than ever. Now 85, I'm retired 23 years from CSX.

I don’t think this will be restored to rail service

I didn't see any work at all going on on the railroad. Is the plan to abandon the railroad from Old Fort to Asheville?

Would be good to know where this is, for those of us who are unfamiliar with the area.

Congratulations you found the worst possible music you could possibly find for this video. If you can actually call that music.

Very good video . Lots of work to get the railroad running again .

Thank you, very intersting & beautiful made video. So sad i hope the railroad gets rebuilt.

I wonder , why bother with a rebuild ? No thru trains , only locals . Somebody please explain why NS would even consider this task ?? Great drone work BTW !!

If Norfolk Southern does not run any trains here, it would make a great bike trail.

Nice work. Looking forward to more.

Thanks!

Hoping that it gets repaired and reused as it once was again.

Thanks for doing this

I know NS doesn’t use this section of track much anymore but hope that it gets rebuilt it be a shame to see ashville get cuts off from the rest of the state in terms of rail service and from ever being apart of the piedmont commuter rail