A CSX Freight, Some Locals, 153 Plus Multiple Stacks and Freights at Lunch
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- I brought the drone with me to work on Tuesday even though I hadn't bothered to recharge all the batteries from going out Sunday, thinking I probably had enough charge left to shoot maybe one or two trains at lunch. I ended up seeing like 8 trains. The drone remote was constantly beeping that it was low on charge every time the cable to the external battery jiggled loose. I had maybe two full charge batteries and went right through those, and back to the ones with less than 50%. I even had to shoot with the iPhone for a bit. This video is assembled out of order with the best clips up front and the phone ones at the rear since they suffer from wind noise, so there will be some jumping around a bit.
We start with a CSX freight sitting at the signal waiting as a westbound NS auto rack arrives without warning (thanks to no more ATCS in the area). We also get a look at the local CSX crew working the sand plant. The NS auto rack has a DPU mid train. Then along comes former 203 without warning off the Greenville line. It's a short one today with all the power up front and no DPUs. And before it can even finish clearing the wye along comes another westbound NS stack train with four units up front on the main. Once the Greenville stack is out of the way the CSX freight finally makes its way east with a nice EMD unit up front. This freight has a huge number of boxcars.
Next we head up to Suwanee on the way home and catch a short local heading north, probably to Gainesville or Toccoa. Followed by 153 with four units up front and one on the rear. Then we jump back to Chamblee where we see former 211 with the usual all BNSF power. Most of the train is empty well cars which reminds me of the pandemic when container shipments practically dried up. Nothing was being shipped anywhere. Then we see some NS units parked at Chamblee with a single BNSF for color. Then back to Inman to finish up the iPhone video in the strong wind, with an NS freight heading into the yard, as a short eastbound auto rack passes on the main.
Excellent footage both drone and trackside!🛤🚂