James E Strates Fair Train Street running in Augusta

[CSX2665]

wow nice...reminds me a lot of my lil hometown of Tarboro North Carolina because the tracks lie beside Albemarle Ave. but the tracks are not welded in the street like this but still and there is a slow speed limit there as well...also i love the old classic horn on that leading geep...plus i thought this was a circus train but after looking it up on google it turns out it is the fair train....i never knew the fair had its own train lol......

[microbusss]

real neat

I have the James E. Strates passenger train set that IHC put out just before going under

[carbon2983]

i think it is dangerous.it needs rr xing signals.

[pattersongrove]

Hey people there,s a train comming , He stupid ass in the police car there,s a train comming why aren,t you out there writing tickets for people crossing the tracks with a train comming write yourself one as well , Hey stupid negro that was running across the tracks didn,t you see or hear that train comming.

[CSXer]

Nice catch. Whole bunch of trailers and not many tracktors.

[MrRobertcoe]

I was stationed at Fort Gordon for 15 months in late 1967 to December 1968. I don't remember seeing the trains when we went to Augusta. I wish I had. Reminds of some of the old days in Southern California.

[Survivor1547]

rides anybody

[youtoo12306]

Cool! Thanks for sharing.

[56yuoi]

cool video at seems like the drivers on the cars dont seem to care that a train was coming.

[csxmansam]

@56yuoi yep, Ive talked to a few people around Augusta and they think since the Rairoad tracks go down the street that there Abandond, so they just ignore the tracks.

[lostlight421]

Thank you so much for posting this. So much in the world has changed,it's really nice to see that everything hasn't.

[HammerQQ]

Sorry, I forgot to thank you for the great video. I hope generations in the future will appreciate this.

[HammerQQ]

Brings back great childhood memories when James E Strates used to do the Clearfield County Fair. They would offload on 3rd St (which used to be a coal train route) and people would flock to watch all day long. My favorite part was when Jack Kochman's Hell Drivers would unload their '70 'Cudas.

We never had a decent midway since Strates and our fairboard could no longer agree on terms. The tracks downtown are paved over, too.

Moments like now leave me with a deep *sigh* that time marches on..

[UP6740]

Idiot at 1:10, i wish people would understand the danger of trains.

[stevieianni]

guess who put them rides and wagons on ...

[picturethisalso]

very neat

[csxmansam]

@picturethisalso Thanks Its always intresting to see it come down,

[NintendoGX159]

nice horn and power, too bad I couldn't catch him when he went thru Winston-Salem,NC on the R-Line. Also IMO, i never did like Street Running it's more dangerous than a regular railroad crossing.

[rsynth75]

@NintendoGX159 really? no street running? NS runs down Hillsborough St. in Fayetteville as does CSXT on Russell St.

[RANDY2045]

wow long train