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Railroad Switching A Grain Spur, 22 Freight Cars Pulled By 1 Classic Locomotive! Long Hood Forward!
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Video published to youtube on March 23, 2023 by Jaw Tooth. Description from post.
Railroad Switching On A Short Line Railroad In Ohio! Listen To This Classic Locomotive As It Handles 22 Freight Cars By Itself! Running Long Hood Forward Past Ancient Color Position Lights From Norfolk & Western Railway Days! This Geep, a GP15-1, works hard and gets the job done on the Cincinnati Eastern Railroad CCET. The train is running on the east end of the line and switching the grain elevator spur on its way to the quarry. It reminds me of the days when the N&W ran long hood forward pulling freight trains on these very tracks. I remember seeing the trains on this line when I was younger and my first date when I was in high school was to these very tracks. Turns out she wasn't a railroader. Lol.
This video was filmed on a Tuesday morning. I had to take my dog to the veterinary in Winchester, Ohio because of an ear problem. On the way home I heard the crew talking on the radio about the air pressure going up. I knew the train was about to leave Sardinia running eastbound. See my video that I posted 2 before this video. I stopped at Macon, Ohio and caught the train splitting the historic N&W signals. They were shut off about 2007 and bagged by Norfolk Southern. I have the exact date written down somewhere and will find it one of these days. After I filmed the train passing Macon I went ahead to Winchester to watch them work the grain spur.
At Winchester we see them pick up 5 covered hopper cars that are loaded with grain and they spotted 7 empties on the spur for the grain elevator switcher to pick up. The grain elevator owns their own little switcher that I have in tons of videos. When they are done here the train continues on east. They set the 5 loads off at the East End Of Mt Zion to be picked up when the loaded rock train returns. I filmed the train passing the west end of Mt Zion before they set the cars off.
The final shot shows the train a couple of miles east of Seaman, Ohio. It is crossing Tranquility Pike with the Geep pulling 13 cars for the quarry at Plum Run and 2 gondola cars for loading raw railroad ties at Peebles, Ohio. This is one of my favourite spots. It is surrounded by farms, has very little traffic and the track goes through some very scenic curves. We see the rail head before and after the train. The track wasn't very rusty since a train went over it about 4 days previous but sometimes it gets covered in rust due to the huge amount of rainfall that this part of Ohio gets. How much rain? I have a pond with a 3 foot berm built all the way around it and the pond overflows! It takes in only rain water. We get about 46 inches of precipitation annually.
I left after catching the train east of Seaman so that I could get the dog home but I was able to film both sides of it and got the complete switching job. I found out that the other Railfan in this video does watch my videos. The last time I talked to him a couple years ago or so he had never heard of my channel. What did you think about this video? Should I have made it into 2 videos or is the length of the video okay? Please leave a comment below.
Filmed Tuesday, March 21, 2023 in 1080p with 60fps. Thanks for watching!
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Location:
Peavine
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Date: 3/21/2023
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Source:
Jaw Tooth / Brian Gibson Collection
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Photo ID: 2876
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Video Link:
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Categories:
Tranquility Pike Crossing |
Baxlia Road Crossing |
West Street Crossing |
Tri County Road Crossing |
Highway 62 Crossing |
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