walking down the saluda grade railroad to waterfalls
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- hiking the saluda grade railroad we always try to hike it 3 times a year just to see the damage that mother nature leaves upon it!!! It's a beautiful hike especially in the fall. and we plan on getting more like this up soon! $CMGOutdoors CASH APP
The switch at the top of the grade is just the end of a passing siding. The safety track is at the bottom. The switch machine is an electric General Railway Signal model 5H.
This is a beautiful hike! I really enjoyed this. I live in the Nevada desert, so I loved seeing all the lush greenery. Thank you.
Is it hot there ? I would love to visit Nevada someday we will checkout ur videos this weekend! Thanks for watching!!
I climbed up that boulder and it was awesome
Looks like someone needs to mow the grass
Lol!! Winter will get it
Wow, what a beautiful place! Well worth the hike down the tracks to get to. 😃👍🏻
Ur rite it's a beautiful place but it's even better when it's in the 90s. THANKS FOR WATCHING!!!
Thanks for sharing your adventure and hike. Beautiful area. Take care.
Thanks for watching
I don’t suggest hiking the grade in shorts or in the spring
1. Poison oak/Poison ivy
2. Bears
Never seen a bear on the track but every bear that I've walked up on ran away pretty quick!!! But its really overgrown with kudzu and other small growth. Thanks for the comment
CMG OUTDOOR ADVENTURES may god be with you and look for an old steamer on the way 😉
No poison oak in the eastern U.S. Plenty of poison ivy, though!
@@OldsVistaCruiser plenty of poison sumac around!!
@@CMGOUTDOORSADVENTURES - True!! I'm in PA, which isn't much different.
How about rails for trails.... Just like White Top Mountain .....Creeper Trail
Great video your the only person to climb Saluda Tracks please do more I loved that grade but never could find a video of the old runaway track. It needs to be videoed from top to bottom both sides before nature takes it back over again. NS has no plans to rebuild the grade and has rail banked it. There are alot of us railfans who would love to see it please give it consideration thanks. Ed
Yes sir it was already in our plan!! It's a beautiful track and ur right nature's taken over! Thanks for watching
The tri-leafed wildflower at around 12:15 in the video is Red (or purple - can't remember which) Trillium. I have the yellow ones in the woods around my place in East Tenn. Enjoyed the video! Have been through there on 26, but never visited Saluda. It's on the bucket list!
Yea found it online and ur right its a trillium. Thanks for watching!!
Ain't that trespassing since the railroad still owns it.
Good question ?? The stream thats in the video is public trout Waters and that's the only way to get there but I've walked it for 15 years and no one's ever told me any different. Theres a lot of hikers there in the winter months but im guessing that its about to be off limits because of the danger!!! The landscapes deteriorating quick!!! Thanks for the comment!
Yes it is.. Even now. Just there's no NS security Bulls around to enforce it anymore. Anyone caught doing that while it was in operation would have needed plenty of bail money. Cool video though. Thumbs up.
Yes ive passed railroad employee's years ago and got a wave from them!! The rails are merely part of the mountain now i think in a year or two it will be off limits for anyone because of the danger!!😩 Thats just my opinion though
It's been 20years since a train went up the grade
It's hard even walk it now it's been taken over by Kudzu
How far of a walk from Saluda down is it to the waterfalls
I'm guessing a little over a mile
Beautiful place
LOL!! When I seen ur comment I had to translate always fun !! Thanks for watching
@@CMGOUTDOORSADVENTURES Lol because my friend, I also have a lot of fun, every time I have to translate hahahahah more and more sometimes I risk writing without using the translator, I do not know what's going to happen, more I try hahaha, I've learned a lot from you A big hug.
Thank u very much and I will do the same!!
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The 611 went up that grade back in 1992 and 1994
That's hard to believe the way it looks now I know they talked about trying to get it running again back in the early 2000s just for a short trip from Hendersonville North Carolina to Tryon North Carolina but I think eventually that idea got swept under the rug. Thanks for watching
ahh yes the xSouthern Signal we used to have 2 in pineville but NS went through PSR and changed 1 signal... never actually seen an up close of the signal but now i have
also that bar thats sticking out was used to tell the crew what milepost they were at
1:46
Didn't no that. Thanks for watching
I thought Watco took over this line? Disappointed to see its abandoned!!!
Yea its in bad shape its about washed away from all the flooding this year. Thanks for watching
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So sad. Saluda handled "Virginia" mined coal. The mining moved to "West Virginia" so now goes via Roanoke and the Piedmont routes. Saluda without coal traffic wasn't worth keeping up. If mining ever resumes in the western part of "Virginia".. Saluda would likely be viable again. I think that's why it's "Rail Banked" and not abandoned. Cool video.
Thanks for watching
Cool video thanks for the Sub ☠️☠️
I had an Aunt that lived in the area at one time. You could hear the trains just roaring as they came up the mountain. It's sad to see that the tracks have deteriorated so quickly since they're no longer in use.
You want adventure? Real AVENTURE??? Hike down the rail bed from Black Mountain off of old Hwy 70 East toward Old Fort. Most people hike over the tunnels but I have met a few that went through them. Just to hike down to the first tunnel and look at that hole in the mountain you'll think there's no way a modern train will fit. If you are lucky enough to see a train come out it's freaky!!!!!
Wow!! Have to put that on my list to check out. Thanks dor sharing that. And thanks for watching!!!
Is that active rail?
@@stephenschmengle9190 no
@@CMGOUTDOORSADVENTURES we took a bike down the Creeper Trail several years ago and it was awesome how come some of these lines can't go from Rails to Trails it needs to happen is there a movement afoot
I'm not sure about that but they never say anything about it they've got trails to it Trails beside it and the Stream up there's Hatchery supported with trout that's the only way to get there so people's been walking it for years
Is this legal to do?
What part?
CMG OUTDOOR ADVENTURES walking the track.
You couldn't tell how sneaky we were. LOL
Yes its legal
This is actually Illegal because the tracks are owned by NS Railroad and you a trespassing. oof
Jolie
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@@CMGOUTDOORSADVENTURES vraiment une belle sortie
Your basically trespassing NS property
No!!
Norfolk Southern property even after the merger when southern & Norfolk Western were even not merged
Thank you for the video, but man what a waste to see saluda in that condition due to the environmentalist nazis.
It has nothing to do with environmentalists hillbilly get your facts straight
Wait no republicans don't care about facts so never mind moron
business faded to the point it wasn't profitable to operate it anymore. Maybe it will come back one day.
@@tedzeiller2711 Republicans? Boy, you are an idiot! Hey democrat, answer us this then, if a child is born with male parts then he is a he if the child is born with female parts, then she is a she, true or false? Why do the democrats have problems understanding that fact? And that's just one fact they don't seem to care about for starters. Don't throw stones at glass houses, as they say, sir, (or whatever you delusionally feeeeel you are despite the FACTS) And no I'm not a republican
@@kman-mi7su lol