[2F] CSX Did It Again: Clogging the Bottleneck with Trains, Athens - Carlton GA 03/11/2016 ©mbmars01
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- Опубліковано 12 бер 2016
- Within a few hours, six trains approached Athens GA on the central CSX Abbeville Subdivision and had to be brought through on this single-track line. Enjoy watching these trains: Manifests Q667, Q616, Q675, and Q676, rock train W090, and autorack train Q211. [© 2016 MBMARS Productions. Exclusive rights for UA-cam channel "mbmars01" only.]
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25:09 gets me every time. Long story short- engineer stopped his train in Pendergrass to ask me if I was ok whilst broken down. He gave me a whole case of water to fill my radiator with. Thanks Wayne
That's a cool story!
@@mbmars01 the two horn blast gets me because that was the last thing I heard from him. It was an experience that changed me. Life was bad and he reminded me there are good people in the world by that simple act if kindness.
Oh yes, at times it's good to hear a friendly voice or to experience an act of kindness. The world isn't as bad as it sometimes seems to be.
Thank you gentlemen that work on tracks, drive the train and load them up this is the greatest ever made "Trains" the emblem of America. Thanks for the videos.
Thanks for watching.
Lots n lots of trains! Cool catches!
Thanks!
Lol ! The chap hitching a lift on that first manifest reminds me of a hilarious incident here in the UK. Operators received a report from platform staff at Didcot station that a westbound intermodal had two young lads riding on an empty container flatbed. The train was brought to a stand at Swindon, about 20 miles further west, where police removed the two offenders. It seems they had boarded the train when it stopped in a platform road at Reading (a big interchange station south east of Didcot) and they wanted to go to Swindon anyway. Then, when the police looked into what offence they had committed, the only thing they could charge them with was riding without a ticket !!!!
Lol, here in the US they would probably charged with trespassing private property.
Like the info on what's happening and the different sites. It's boring looking at other youtube videos where all you see are trains going by at the same location with no info on what you're seeing. Very good job , keep up the good work, will be looking for your videos in the future.
+norman mckenzie Thank you very much. Feedback like yours motivates me to keep it up!
A bunch of nice catches :) keep up the great work MB. thanks for the vids.
+steve trayes Many thanks! I appreciate your feedback.
Hello mbmars. There are again good transport seen in picture and sound, with ascents and two-way vehicle on the rails!
+Werner Sievers Yeah, it was a busy day. I like when it's like this, with all the action going on!
Nice work there Sir! Lots of good catches and camera work. Being a signal electrician(maintainer) , I can tell you it doesn't take much to hold up trains and cause a jam! All it takes is a minor signal or track fault and all comes to a stop...thats when I get yelled at to get it fixed..LOL Keep m'coming !
Cheers Gregg :-)
+FishplateFilms Haha, like it. No doubt about it. On the Abbeville, there are rarely signal issues, though, as far as I can tell. It's more overlong trains and occasionally poor scheduling. Not to speak of underpowered trains that frequently stall when trying to climb the grades here.
+mbmars01 I guess CSX are trying to save money , every now and then it doesn't work..LOL Sometimes signal issues go unnoticed or can be in other areas and have a flow on effect? Maybe in the future we could see "road" type Genset units for use on the mainline trains? Especially in areas where there are only a few grades to deal with.
Cheers Gregg .
Nice video dude... have subbed. I like the panning, long distance stuff that shows the uneven rails and the little zooms you do to stuff like rails going up and down as carriages go over. Nice stuff.
+FalconXE302 Many thanks.
damn, CSX, back at it again with the bottlenecked tracks
+Chicagoland Railfan Yes, difficult to understand at times, but nice for the railfan ;)
Butiful capture. Lovely sights and sounds. God bless America. ✌
Thanks! I love the sounds of the rumbling engines. Can't get enough of it.
The very busy BNSF passes through the upper and lower pasture here at the farm in Central Texas, yet here I am watching train videos. I have seen that kind of 'clog up' at Nolanville, Tx, which is a short ride from the farm. I saw an interesting 7 engine lash-up eastbound today. There were four BNSF engines, two UP, and one CN.
+David Barnett Nice you watch these videos :) I know you get great stuff down there. I should return and visit the Southern Transcon again.
During my brief stint at Central Bell Fire, I'd frequently see them blocking the crossing next to the station.
seeing the rider (first train) waving and giving thumbs up, is one of the friendliest I have seen! I have been flipped off and told to f**k off before but that guy was pretty chilled out, as always another great video!
+RailheadRailfan Productions Really? I have always had positive experiences with the crews. Some even freak out (in a positive sense), when they see that they are filmed. I think some of the crews working along the CSX Abbeville Sub seem to know me already. Once I was even invited into the cab of the lead engine of CSX Q675 when they waited for a clear in a siding and I was filming. The crew (from SC) showed and explained me everything, asked and answered many questions. Very nice people.
+mbmars01 I have had as well many positive trips, some crews up here (Maryland) are really friendly, I was meaning by the hitch hiker's haha... it seems the railfanning down there is plentiful! seems I might have to make a trip sometime lol
+RailheadRailfan Productions Ah, gotcha. Yeah, this guy was pretty relaxed, for sure. Well, if one knows the right places, railfanning can be great down here in GA. However, it took me about a year to understand the Abbeville Subdivision, at least partly. The 20+ trains per day are not scattered uniformly. Sometimes you have 5-6 in one crowded area - if you are lucky you are at the right spot at the right time - but sometimes there is not a single one for hours. My videos may create the imagination of a very active line, which it isn't. Never disappointing, however, are the surroundings of the huge CSX and NS yards in/near Atlanta (Austell) and Macon, as well as CSX's main line to Florida going through Folkston.
+mbmars01 you lucky guy that must have a been a experience you will renember for the rest of your life eh ?
if you guys get excited by being invited to visit the cab, then you need to visit the UK, over here we can actually pay to drive a steam or diesel train with a steam preservation society, prices are high for a driving experience but well worth it ;)
here's a link for one just 30 miles away from where i live :)
www.nvr.org.uk/steam-starter-package
Superb video. Me being the curious type of guy always wondered what the temperature of the rails were after a train passed over it. I put that theory once to use when I lived in Washington state. I tested the temps after an Amtrak train passed over the tracks between Mukiteo, WA and Edmonds, WA, and after the Amtrak went over the tracks the temp was only 85.6, where as the long freight trains was 98.7, almost close enough to fry an egg for a meal for the Seagulls, lol Great video's you always have.
+Larry R Wendell Jr Haha, that's funny and interesting. Thanks, glad you like this video, too.
That was cool. I worked for Sperry Rail service driving one of those test trucks.
+Robert Price Awesome!
wow. the front of 7685 looking pretty rough. that poor poor Dash8.
great video csx was busy that day
Busy, but slow.
I love Locomotive CSX 👍🔥😄
Cool, me too.
I remember seeing a all conrail consist of old locomotives accelerating up hill. It looked like a house fire was in the lead.
604, 1828, and 3000 Hz are the tones that I see produced by that tone they use at the start of the video
I don't know if the combination of the 604 and 3000 combine to produce 1828
I am guessing this is like touch tone but different ?
In ham radio they use 1750 tone burst to alert and activate on ham radios
I have not seen any chart for railroad tones
I know from listening in the Saratoga Springs area that CP Rail uses *61 and *66 to contact dispatch on the Canadian Mainline and the Binghamton Line
But I don't know what else is used or why
I have been using the DTMF decoder to see what standard tones are used
But there are tones like this one that are not anything standard
I must agree with many of these comments. So much more interesting than endless intermodal trains going past the same spot over and over and over, and/or every single shot filmed at a crossing so all you hear is a perpetual 'clang clang clang clang'. The subtitles are useful as well. And 7685 does look rather sorry; what happened to the paint on the cab?
Many thanks! This is very much appreciated. I really don't know what happened to the paint of 7685 lol.
AndreiTupolev
I don't film at crossings I've had poeple call the cops on me thinking I was suicidal lol.
For a multi-billion dollar Class 1 operation, CSX sure has some filthy and weathered locos. BNSF, UP, and NS seem to take a lot better care of their locomotives than CSX does.
I agree, but I've also already seen quite a few neglected NS and UP locos.
True
eh. NS's black paint scheme hides how dirty they really are.
@@JTfishing6130 probably never get cleaned til they break down
Nice catches. We get multiple trains like that on the NS Piedmont Division mainline in the Greenville, SC area, especially meets. I do however, get a couple of CSX locals and Ethanol trains from time to time on the CSX Belton sub division.
+dtrainsc35 Thanks! I know the Georgia section of the Piedmont a little bit, but since track speeds are high and access to the line is limited to a few (great!) locations, it is difficult to chase trains there. I don't know the Belton Sub, but I like local trains!
The ethanol trains that run through the SG Line are the same ones that run to and from Belton, SC. It goes as far as Greenwood, SC at Parke Junction, then it turns off on the Spartanburg Sub (AK Line) towards Spartanburg, SC, near the Clinchfield line and then enters the Belton sub
+dtrainsc35 Interesting, I didn't know that. Thanks for this information!
+mbmars01 anytime
+dtrainsc35 freeze it at 2:56 hobo freeloading on train call the CSX police
Very nice video. Seldom to see a 1-digit locomotive (no 9). I think the lowest number I have seen on YT is no 6
Cheers Adam
Thanks. I'm not entirely sure, but I think I've seen CSXT #2 and if so, the video should be in the Abbeville Sub playlist...
I will look for it :-)
Cheers Adam
how do you keep up with all the train numbers and get on there cb channel
The train crews call signals on the radio and the dispatcher communicates with them, also on radio. Using a scanner one can listen to their chatter and get information about the trains.
Wait, that pizza shop accepts EBT ??!!
ARE THEY ACCEPTING FOOD STAMPS FOR PIZZA ??!!
Or just regular cash EBT ?
I know during the hurricanes there was a temporary emergency order allowing certain counties in certain states to accept the food stamp benefit on the EBT card at Subway sandwich shops for subs
But I had not heard of any other places being allowed to accept food stamps for hot food or prepared food
I always thought that was unfair because if you go into a regular grocery store back in the early 90s they had ready-made subs in the cold case and many of the stores began installing sub shops inside the store where they sold hamburgers and hotdogs and they custom-made subs to order and as long as it was a cold sub then you could use the EBT food stamp card
It really is a dumb rule because you could order a roast beef sub and buy a bag of potato chips and a 1 l bottle of soda and they had tables right there in the store and you could sit there and eat lunch but here's where it's nuts:
Directly next door to the supermarketare Subway sub shops and they sell the same exact thing they have cold subs and you go in there and you order a cold roast beef sub and you buy a bag of chips and a bottle of soda and they don't allow you to use the food stamp card for the same food only in a Subway shop fifty feet away in the same plaza
Here's where it gets even crazier
If you go in they have all the hot items they have hot fried chicken and they have potato salad and coleslaw and all sorts of other stuff in the prepared food area of the deli
You can't buy any of that using the food stamp card, but if they take the exact same food and they put it in a to-go container and they price it out and they put it in the cold case where the hotdogs and bacon are then you can buy it with your food stamp card even though it's still hot
It's all crazy nonsense
I see no reason why people shouldn't be able to use the food stamp card to buy a pizza or a sub or a hamburger at McDonalds
It's actually cheaper to buy some items at the fast food places than it is to buy the food and cook it at home
I'm always amazed at the acceleration of these locomotives from a dead stop with a full train behind them. Not drag racer fast, but impressive nonetheless....
I agree. To see a consist of locomotives unleash their often 12,000 and more combined horsepower is an amazing experience. I can't get enough of it.
Did you see the dude on the first train
What’s wrong with showing entire train w/o cuts?
Nothing, I just like it more to look at trains from different perspectives.
iv herd the Atlanta dispatcher before
csx love at is good
Nice I've never seen a Yn2 lashup before
Since more and more engines in YN2 paint disappear, it becomes harder and harder to catch consists like this.
@@mbmars01 also I just noticed that their all dash 8s
@@mbmars01 nevermind the last one is a dash 9
i like train vidoes on youtube
On the first train in the video... thats a long ass train... can you give the approximate number of cars?
I haven't counted, but Q667 is typically very long, often with 170 and more cars.
Approx. how many cars does a typical CSX carry on a day to day?
However many is requested by the customers in the serviced areas
CSX NEEDS TO UPDATE THEIR TRACK OR AT LEAST BALLAST IT AND LEVEL IT. ESPECIALLY AT THE SWITCHES.
treemendous,absolutley treem
Well the way I see it is; CSX needs to make longer double mainlines and add where they have none. That should spend up delivery of shipments.
CSX does have the money for that
Nice! (Always show a train entering a grade crossing. If a vehicle was hit, you would have completely missed it.)
What makes the "humming" sound - its pitch determined by train speed? 5:57 Capture the signal change.
6:40 brake squeal? If not, that is a bad sound.
Don't worry, I catch all action, since I typically film the entire sequence of a train passing by. However, for the final video, I cut these lengthy sequences as they might become a bit boring, in particular the long shots. I leave it to experts to answer your questions, as I could only speculate anyway.
I believe the humming sound is simply the metal moving/spinning at high speed, and 6:40 appears to be a faulty wheel/axle/brake.
Good stuff. From where you were filming, it appears Georgians respect their highways and byways and don't consider the land to be their own personal garbage can.
+David Barnett PS: Nice church by the tracks. I bet that plays heck with the Sunday morning sermon.
+David Barnett This could well be so.
Back in the day they used prisoners to keep the highways clean. I wonder if that still happens?
@@Cass48 I see it around my area from time to time, or the DOT will pay some day laborers to go do it
Most are like you said but not everyone
why dont they lay another track ?? a north bound and a south bound....
The line isn't super busy. Single track is sufficient. Sometimes areas can get congested, though, for example, when a train has a problem. Operations have become more efficient here since.
I dont see where you state CSX clogged up the line..looks fine on this end...one train sitting for clearance to move on appears normal.
Sure, it's not a big deal, but there was a time (note this was recorded 3.5 years ago) when CSX lacked some coordination in their activities. Sometimes you wouldn't see a single train for 5-6 hours and then five or six approaching approaching at once from both ends. Since this is single-track line with sidings 10 miles apart in this area, it just took a long time to get these trains through this bootleneck.
@@mbmars01,
It appears to me that CSX's precision scheduled railroading program means having to do with less. I can only imagine how their customers feel.
can't believe only two locomotives pulled that 1st train?
Which one is the worst ?? Q616 or Q676 or a different one ?? Why do you think its the problem ?? Track condition or not enough power or (I think) they have to stop too many times...opinions ??
These trains have been abolished in 2017. The problem was that they were too long and caused all kinds of delays.
@@mbmars01 When you say abolished...CSX or Gov...who abolished it and why ?? what did they replace these long trains with.??.. chopped them up into smaller loads maybe ?? sorry, got a lot of questions, thuings i never thought of before.
CSX, of course. They closed the hump yards in Hamlet and Atlanta and this was the end of these trains.
Whats up with lack of trains on athens/abbeville route right now...11 pm train missing for months...just wandering...
Wondering...
Well, these are the times. There's just not enough rail volume to warrant more a few trains right now.
Thanks
@mbmars01... Do you know why that person was riding on one of the Cars of CSX Q667 at the 2:55 mark?... I obviously don't know if the Crew on board of CSX 5403 noticed that or if he just Hopped on??
That was a blind passenger not paying for his ticket lol. I'm sure the crew didn't know he was riding on their train.
@@mbmars01... Right but that's Illegal to do that
@@zdthelehighlinerailfan5362 Yeah, of course, but some people simply do illegal things.
@@mbmars01.... Yeah!
2:55 dude was the the RanOutOnARail channel guy??
No, don't think so
CSX again.
How long is the single track section?
It depends, but in this area it’s about 10 miles between the sidings.
Front end of the last grain car
why do most of the railfanning videos have little or no voice with them?
because that's annoying as hell.
no words just emotions.
What is the chicken house? LOL
Haha, I cannot tell this to a cat lol... There's a signal called near Colbert GA called the "Chicken House", because it is located near a chicken farm.
endous.
Is that not at least partially the dispatcher's fault?
What camera did you use in this video?
This is one of the older videos. At that time, I used a Panasonic HC-V550 camcorder.
Thanks!
@@mbmars01 thanks
13:43 he stop just in time
Those are some long trains.
+TheDolphins43 Indeed!
HEY! THAT GUY DID'NT BUY A TICKET!
Lol!
At 2:56
was he homeless cause no one does that
No idea. Some people just do strange things.
mbmars01 tru dat lol
A lot more people do it more often then you think. Homeless or not
Its all in the matter of not getting caught and not killing yourself while the train is in motion
Containers Train. You Tube.
question how many trains on a rout is considered clogging :)
+zippa .way Haha, it's a good question and I don't have a clear answer. If several trains are stopped on successive sidings, because the blocks ahead are still occupied by other trains, then it's getting "clogged", like a traffic jam.
i hear that
+zippa .way it is cool tho to see them run so close together like that tho
+zippa .way Agreed, although it can also be somewhat challenging to be at the right spot to catch the trains at the right time if there are so many in a section that extends over 50 miles.
i hear that
Will be glad when harrison is gone
But note that the footage is from before EHH took office. CSX had already a lot of problems back then.
mbmars01 i see that but the dude is playing with my pay checks and he works from his house
I definitely understand your concern and hope that it's getting better again soon. We don't see much traffic on the Abbeville Sub anymore, which is sad.
I think you caught two third class passengers. Check 7:48
Lol, hoboes
This looks like lack of investment
I like your videos but it gets boring watching every car
Thanks! Well, this is a rather old video. Nowadays I try to find a compromise between showing as much of a train as possible, but also keeping the video fluent. Recently someone complained that I do NOT show every car - tastes are different lol