*UPDATE* CSX Rail Removal on the CC Subdivision - 1 Year Later

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This video shows what the CC subdivision looks like between Visalia and Ryland Heights after CSX removed main #2 back in July 2022. Since the filming of that video, the ties have been removed and a small storage track as been added for maintenance equipment. Amazingly, the searchlight signals remain standing.

[@anb7408]

This was once CSX’s busiest mainline on the system, and one of only two subdivisions (the other being the Fitzgerald Sub) that warranted its own dedicated dispatcher. Thanks to piss poor management and “PSR” running off business, the traffic has fallen off across the system. A shame. Glad I was able to watch this railroad back in the early 2000’s before it went to s***. It’s sadly a shell of its former self now.

[@CRBTrains]

Congrats on 1000 subs

[@cadenmcmexican7999]

Sad times

[@user-do2rm7bu3k]

Thank you for the web site

[@Nethanel773]

1:45 Surprised there are still searchlight signals from the old L&N.

[@searchlight.trains]

They are indeed a dying breed.

[@honoraryceo150]

So sadddd

[@cu29640]

Why would they remove the main portion of a siding forcing all traffic through the diversion? Assuming they will re-align the main for straight running?

[@searchlight.trains]

That's CSX for you. They still have not re-aligned it.

[@isnice_official]

Hopefully they don’t board up or fill in tunnel 2.
Not only is it historic, it enables safe railfan trespassing for once in the history of the L&N. If one has made a special effort to get out to Lambs Ferry Rd and/or Locust Pike to see these beauties they can safely take a stroll through tunnel 2, in order to avoid the danger of being caught in the middle of tunnel 1 with a train approaching.

[@isnice_official]

Might I add, I grew up right next to Decoursey Yard and this makes me just as sad as when the old yard house burned down.
What are we losing by reverting to a single track railway? Not that it matters much but it will be much more difficult to ever add any passenger service back to the line without major investment (not that this was ever even remotely on the table.
Thanks for sharing this with us, I am glad that someone else cares about this also; as I now live in the only city in America where four different railways in passenger revenue service do not intersect with each other, two of the four railways are different gauges, and none of them can share their respective equipment. Too far to do this myself.

[@Hired_49.-ri]

​@@isnice_officialI was born in 09 and I lived up here

[@Hired_49.-ri]

​@@isnice_officialI loved watching trains go by here

[@Hired_49.-ri]

​@@isnice_officialand before I was born my grandfather was born in 43 and started working for the l&n in 72 before they went bankrupt

[@LeeKazee-pf1vv]

csx always has been bad at management, it was when i worked there from 1998 to 2010. I worked chicago division, great lakes and huntington divisions. It got pretty good between 2008 to 2009 on huntington division. then everything started going down hill when coal traffic took dropped because of president elected in 2008.