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  • I remember the tracks that ran thru Summerfield... Id sit on the steps of Wilsons grocery and watch the Southern engines go south to GSO past the school.

  • This video was back when a railroad was a railroad. Mergers suck!

  • Man, all over the southern east coast, the rails are like ghost towns. I wish that for once I wouldn't only have to see used tracks about 35% of the time.

  • NSLocomotiveFan, you said it all right there, a moron.

  • Who is the moron the disliked this?

  • @NVRambo And RIP the Caboose

  • You may kick yourself for not capturing them on film more, but at least you did! And thank you for doing that! Your Southern vids bring back a lot of my memories of a truley unique railroad! I look forward to your posting more of them!

  • Next year, 2012, will mark the 30th anniversary of the merger between Norfolk and Western and Southern Railways to form the current Norfolk Southern Corporation. Of course, in NC, there was an "old" NS railroad.

  • Southern Railway......A class act all the way.

    Too bad it's gone.

  • the Sequatchie Valley Railroad had some ex-Southern(one engine was also ex-Wheeling and Lake Erie on top of being ex-Sou) and ex-Norfolk Western high hood power, but they let them rot and were eventually scrapped.

  • Too bad they don't use the caboose on the trains anymore. They've got those End of Train Devices on them now.

  • This must have been made right before the merger of NW and SR railways.

  • I remember seeing these engines many times on the Southern's main line in the Lynchburg, VA area. And I remember the old bay window cabooses.

  • Oh man it's soooooooo sad that they took the Caboose's off the track,just doesn't seem the same anymore i mean as far as a train being a Train. :-(

  • do you know what the truest fallen flag of them all is? the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. they were the first one ever, just thought id like to mention that

  • @rockguitarist946, B&O was not the first fallen flag ever. Virginian got taken over by N&W in the late 1950's, whereas B&O got taken over by C&O in 1963.

  • no, the first railroad chartered

  • @rockguitarist946, first chartered, yes. Not the first fallen flag though.

  • where did i say they were? i said they were the TRUEST, not the first. in other words, they are the most significant fallen flag

  • i have a sd35 on my train sim

  • I've always enjoyed the Southern, even up here in Maine. (A few Southern SD45s ended up here on Guilford but that's another story.) It was also nice to see those Bangor and Arrostook boxcars and the CP newsprint car on the train. Also, thanks for a train with a caboose. A real nice memorable video.

  • Yeah i miss those Caboose's,i lived at one time right near the "Ernest Norris Yard" in,Irondale,Al (Home Of Fried Green Tomatoes-i.e:the Book And Movie),it was based on a family there in Irondale. Oh well its sad not to see the caboose's anymore!. :-(

  • Did you see in the early 80's on the SD40-2 and C30-7 a revolving headlight above the working headlight between the number boards?

  • yes I did but I was so young back than I saw what I was able to see while visiting my relatives in Atlanta I do remember going to Chamblee on night and seeing a NS train in a sideing with all Southern highhoods that would have been in the late 80s or early 90s I hit highschool in 92 so I was still in JR high so it had to have been around the late 80s seomewhere around the merger time..I remember seeing the CSX with those lights for sure they passed behind there house I saw them at night

  • do you remember seeing the Family Lines C30-7 during the 1980's? the old C30-7's are being retired as well.

  • I do definatlly I used to see them too in the Atlanta area wow CSX is retireing them hmm

  • I saw one time either in 1986 or 1988 a Seaboard Coast Line GP40-2 still in its Seaboard Coast Line paint scheme black with yellow stripe.

  • hmm I remember seeing them in the mid 80s when I would go to Atlanta and other places but thats where I remember them most they were most likelly on the very early CSX as I remember..I also saw alot of the Family Lines System too probilly where I saw the Seabord units ....hell I used to see them down here in Texas too on what was than the early UPRR merger with the MoPAC I also remember seeing the B&O units down here but the strangest was the Seabord wide crew cabs also saw them here

  • SP, Cotton Belt, Western Pacific, Frisco, and Rio Grande have the revolving headlight too.

  • I remember seeing all those railroads oscelating headlights and photographing them as a kid I saw a little of the WP except when one showed up down here on the UP I dont remember the Frisco much axcept what I saw with my dad I remember the Rio Grande some in its final years before the merger but very little..I also remember seeing the old KCS long nose SD40-2 units with the oscelating headlight by my house at night before the KCS stoped useing them

  • i think one yard switcher i saw had the wide crew cabs that was Seaboard System SW1500 1115 in pre csx paint scheme the plain gray color with CSX in blue letters the sides still had the Seaboard System paint scheme now the 1115 has been repainted to CSX Dark Future with a darker blue CSX in yellow that is today's paint scheme I have not seen CSX SD40-2 8077 in a long time.

  • the old CSX B30-7 and B36-7 are being used as road power on work trains and maybe on some local freights i hardly ever see them on freights now i am seeing more ES44DC's, SD70ACE, and SD70MAC's on freights the ES44DC i am seeing them more on Intermodal trains.

  • hmm being used on work trains still thats interesting to hear and refreshing it breaks the bordom of the newer trains with all this modern power i grew up in the older generatin power era of the 70s and 80s..I miss hearing a 567 diesel working the small yard here when a local arrives now its all green goats boreing ..I was amazed at all the older units I have seened stored in yards latelly in Seattle I saw no less than 100 SD60s deadlined and in Creston Iowa Oakway SD50s stored dead

  • its sad to see the SD50 and SD60 retired CSX 8109 after the derailment was dead and scrapped.

  • yah i remember seeing the old SD50s for the first time when the UP bought the Mopac and they started showing up in town in Armor Yellow some letterd for the Missouri Pacific but in yellow and than I saw my first SD60 come through town hell I was so excited as a kid seeing that unit I though from a distance when it approached me it looked like one of the DDA40X units that was my initial thought the engineer threw me down one of the new operator manuels for the unit which I wore out reading LOL

  • i saw one time a steam engine pulling the CSX Christmas special the steam engine i saw was UP 8444 or UP 844 how i know it was a UP steam engine i saw in the front the old Union Pacific badge emblem

  • where was that I didnt know 8444 pulled any CSX Christmas trains I know 3985 did on the old Clinchfield some but I didnt know 8444 ever did which probily was right for that number at that time

  • it was in Brownsville, Tennessee in December of 1992 when 8444 and 3985 was done with their CSX Christmas special they were both returned back to Union Pacific

  • hmm very interesting i never knew those two ventured east like that i learn something new nice ..I saw the 844 for the first time ever last month when I did an excoursion from Denver to Cheyenne I was in awe at the sure size and beauty of that engine

  • yah all those BN and some BNSF letterd SD60s were at the backshop track in Seattle and in Creston Iowa when I passed there I must have counted 100 of the EMD oakway leasing SD50s stored there and there are several differnt classs of engines mostlly SD40s and some smaller power stored over near me in Saginaw Tx in the BNSF yard thats a shame about CSX 8109 I thought I hadnt seen that unit in a while

  • CSX 8019 was more common over here on the CSX Memphis Sub 8109 was actually an ex L&N engine wearing the old Family Lines paint scheme and now she is gone and another engine in CSX's history and past

  • yeah thats rights CSX is retiring some of them or letting the shortline railroads have their C30-7 for a better set of engines than the older Alco units the old Alco units smoke the worse..

  • very interesting me I prefer the old Alcos not that I am against the newer units though

  • ok we all prefer different engines either if they are the old ALCO units, C30-7, B30-7, B23-7 or the older units to me i am not against the older units like the C30-7 well you know i just miss seeing them on regular freight trains that makes me unhappy seeing them being retired CSX has changed over the years CSX SD40-2 8109 and Road Slug 2295 was in a train derailment 6 years ago both engines have been scrapped the day after the derailment happened.

  • i like the older engine just like you do too I miss seeing variety in a train lineup instead of all this new power on trains not that it is a problem just a bit boreing and predictable now a days same ES44s an so on now what I like is seeing an old vetran say an SD40-2 leading one of the newer units on a train..I am disapointed at all the older units I have seen latelly in scraplines or deadlines in the railyards apparently the government has put restrictions on the older units running

  • i still see some C40-8,C40-8CW, and the C44-9Ws

  • thats cool I am on the CSX line some once in a while when I travel on private railcars on the back of Amtrak one of the line we are on alot is the lake Shore Limited route through New York so I get a chance to see CSX alot and on the old C&O line through the New River we see alot of CSX out there too I will be on both CSX lines in September..I am wrong I will be on Sand Patch grade comeing home on the old B&O comeing home from Wasington DC but going on the old NYC all now CSX..

  • I am located near the CSX Lee wood subdivision that runs to Memphis to Nashville, Tennessee the small train yard is in Bruceton, Tennessee the biggest train yard is CSX Radnor yard in Nashville, Tennessee and CSX Kayne Yard I have to Radnor yard in Nashville, Tennessee there is three more CSX rail yard CSX Lee Wood yard in Memphis Tennessee, one in Knoxville, Tennessee, and in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

  • hmm I am here in Aubury Tx just north of the dallas area we have the UPRR line here the old MKT /MoPac joint trackage to KC and over in Denton TX I have the same line and across town the KCS and not to far from my house is the BNSF I see alot of NS on the KCS line and on the BNSF both as we have a roadrailer facility over in Saginaw its not unusuall to see all NS power on trains..I see you are located deep in the heart of the old south style railroading cool I miss those fallen flags

  • I miss the old Southern GP38-2 high hood and the old red Southern Railway Caboose as well the caboose was a history of the past .

  • I do too

  • I see a NS GP38-2 every once in a while the only time i see a GP38-2 high hood in NS Forrest Yard is when switching some cars around in the train yard.

  • I think they are the old C30-7's have been retired too one SD40-2 CSX 8109 ran into CSX GP40-2 6910 and Road Slug CSX 2295 those 3 engines have been retired too.

  • i use to see a lot of SD40-2's on the CSX in the L&N, Chessie System, and Seaboard System.

  • I used to love seeing these units as a kid when I would go visit my aunt and uncle in Atlanta Ga I miss the old Southern Railroad

  • Now that's what EMD's should look like.

  • very nice old cast P5. sounds close to the M5, just the way they were meant to. i love it.

  • Wow! hardly any graffiti. Unfortunately today you see it everywhere.

  • This was right before the merger in 1982. What month and date did the Southern merge with the Norfolk & Western?

  • December of 1982.

  • They merged in June 82'

  • So this is 5 months before the NS merger right?

  • Yep. Norfolk Southern Corp. was created as a new holding company to acquire Norfolk & Western Railway and Southern Railway, effected June 1, 1982. Full merger effected Dec. 31, 1990, as N&W became a subsidiary of Southern, and Southern changed its name to Norfolk Southern Railway. The N&W still exist...on paper atleast.

  • Oh yea! Used to see these all the time in Powder Springs,Ga. back in the 70's and 80's! 5*

  • Pretty long freight indeed with some classic EMD power on it.

  • Steam engines on the SOU and NW had the engineer positioned behind the actual locomotive. This is a major reason why the diesels were ran long hood forward, tradtion. Plus being able to run either direction means no turning at the end of runs for return trips.

  • did these NW diesel locomotives come equipped with anti climbers? maybe it was also viewed as safer for the crew?

  • could never understand why running long hood forward, cant see anything except far down the tracks, safety? your no more safer than short hood forward!!!

  • Safety and tradition. The railfan term for this is ass-backwards.

  • Cool video, but I sure do miss the cabooses not being at the end of the freight trains though. I thought I heard one time where a couple of the railroads were considering putting the caboose back on the end of the freight trains.

  • Thanks for sharing all the great classic railroad videos. This one brings back a lot of memories of seeing those old high hoods running in my hometown back in the day.

  • This video reminds me of my home here in Ohio. W&LE has about 20 or 30 former SR GP35 units. High hood and all. Even the same horn.

  • It might be just me but this unit looks more like an SD38 then an SD35 due to the radiators being too close to allow the smaller one to be there. still a nice clip though!!

  • Its a SD35, SOU didn't have any SD38's.

    Thanks for sharing this. I worked this line to Monroe VA, Linwood NC, & sometimes the "weedline" Front Royal JCT. on the extra board for a couple years then bid out to Atlanta running triple crown.

    Then SOU turned to NS and things went down like a whale turd floating to the deep depths of davy jones locker

  • should read I bid down to Atlanta then SOU turn to NS and things went down while I was running the triple crown. High up in my Geep50 the metal knuckle it did lift me. Then NS they did shift me. Causing a management rift, from this road I did drift.

    Oh if SOU came back that would be the gift.

  • funny, I love trains and i turned 8 the day this was taped lmao

  • OH, to see a train with high hoods. Since I model Southern that is truly inspirational.

    Thanks!!!!!

  • Thanks for sharing, brings back memories of my childhood!

  • Oooh! Old castings Nathan P5.

  • That was nice! Typical Southern: High nosed power with long hood running forward. These were the "good ol days" before the garbage graffitti that we have to endure today. How times have changed!

  • Thanks for posting this.

  • Nice Video man, really. I miss the old Southern Railway. Your video helped bring back memories.

  • You're welcome--I periodically kick myself for not having chased the Southern more.

  • I'm assuming that you filmed this at the old Burke Rd crossing?

  • Yes.

  • Watching this has made me realize how much I miss the Southern (& cabooses). Thanks for the video.

  • that's the way a train should look

  • Thankyou thank you thank you for this!

  • very rare and unique

  • 3rd unit was an SD45.

  • cool video.

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