SMRR 6/13/11 & Oakland Jct. 6/15/11

1st we go to Stone Mountain to see their railroad in action.

6/13/11
Stone Mountain, GA
SMRR FP7A 6143 Ex. SOU

6/15/11
Atlanta, GA

Next we go to Oakland Jct. for NS and CSX Action.

Quick note about Oakland Jct. is that it is Norfolk Southern Tracks (NS Griffin District) and CSX has trackage rights from the A&WP Sub (Starts at East Point, GA) to Husley Yard (CSX Intemodal Yard at Inman Park, GA) and from there, CSX has full track coverage all the way to Lithonia, GA (From Husley Yard to Lithonia, GA is part of the Atlanta Terminal Subdivision and at Lithonia is the start of CSX's Georgia Subdivision).

Train 1
CSX Northbound Autoracks
Murphy Ave. SW/Lee St. SW
Northside of Oakland Jct.

I didn't catch the head-end of this train, but I wanted to show this crossing as the autoracks are triggering the crossing.

Train 2
NS Southbound Manifest
Murphy Ave. SW
Southside of Oakland Jct.

NS C40-9 8787
CEFX SD60 6019 Ex. SOO
GMTX SD60 9076 Ex. EMDX

Train 3
CSX Southbound Intermodal
Murphy Ave. SW/Sylvan Rd. SW
Right through Oakland Jct.

CSX C40-8W 7778
CSX C40-8W 7737

Train 4 CSX Southbound Manifest
Oakland City Train Station

UP AC4400CW 5813
UP AC6000CW ????
CSX C40-8W ????

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Tags:

• SMRR
• Stone
• Mountain
• Railway
• Caboose
• CSX
• NS
• UP
• Intermodal
• Manifest
• Oakland
• Jct.
• EMDX
• SD60
• C40-9
• C40-8W
• AC6000CW
• AC4400CW

[35UGA0511]

Memory Lane City ! As a switchman on the NS, I traveled the Center Road stretch quite often. The crossing at the 5:29 mark is near Donnelly & Lee ( I used to ride my bike as a boy on Lee Street 50 years ago ). Almost had a collision with an A & WP train on this stretch in 1980 about 2 miles north of this crossing near fire station # 7 as a sleepy crew awoke just in time......Nutty Days !

[tjtrainz]

@35UGA0511 I'm 18 and i've been going up and down this line since forever seem like, thanks for the History lesson

[Southernrailfan10]

nice video

[BTCRAIL101FILMS]

I like 2:37-2:50. I like th rain, lighting, and thunder as the train goes by!! Nice catches and also I SUBSCRIBED!!! :D