CSXT Hotspot: Cartersville, Georgia (DVD Video)

This video covers the time period of June 2000 through August 2000. CSXT's former Louisville & Nashville mainlines from Etowah, Tennessee (K&A), and Wauhatchie, Tennessee (W&A), come together at milepost WA47.8 near Junta Tower in downtown Cartersville to form what is one of the busiest stretches of railroad track in the entire southeastern United States. More than 50 trains per day ply the rails south of Cartersville on the W&A Subdivision mainline. Cartersville itself has three wyes of which two, the Bowen Wye and the W&A/K&A wye, are used by Stilesboro-bound coal trains several times daily. The W&A Sub mainline is CTC and begins at milepost WA22.4 at Elizabeth (just north of Marietta, Georgia) and runs northwest approximately 125 miles to Wauhatchie, Tennessee.

The line has a rich heritage that dates to the time of the Civil War and was host to the "Great Locomotive Chase" involving "The General". We will concentrate on the segment of the W&A Sub from Kennesaw, Georgia, northward to Kingston, Georgia, as well as a small portion of the K&A mainline from Junta Tower to Wyvern. We catch several trains with Conrail-painted locomotives leading as well as a good mix of CSXT, foreign, and lease power. There is one chapter covering motive power CSXT was using in the mid-1990s and includes a few locomotives still in their predecessor paint schemes, such as Family Lines and Seaboard System.

Digital Color and Sound
Running Time 55 Minutes
Copyright 2009 SouthEast Railfanning Video Productions/Brian Morgan

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• southeast
• railfanning
• Cartersville
• Georgia
• railroads
• csx
• csxt
• United
• States
• railroad
• trains
• video

[kin1934]

dose csx owns W&A or the states owns the line

[southern7002x]

@kin1934 Hi Corey, The state of Georgia owns the line.

[trainmandan05]

Whoa! Leased SDP45 at 0:51!

[southern7002x]

These days seem so long ago! Thanks Daniel!

[HyperActive7]

You guys keep posting stuff like this and I swear my entire front page of my favorites are going to be your videos..

WOW!

[southern7002x]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video! A LOT has changed over there in 10 years. Nowadays it's an endless parade of widebody AC4400CWs and GEVOs on every train.

[traindude32]

1:54 8579 fast bell

[pengapop12]

@southern7002x yes and alot has most certainly changed since the good ol 50s and 60s when f units u boats and sw9 switchers were popular, now not a trace of tha stuff hardly exsists today

[BNSF9250]

this still avalable the beautiful horns atract me to it. you guys make too many good videos . i want to collect them all. i hope you guys keep making acopys of all your videos for a long time so i can get them all. cuz im gonnna become your customer soon. just so you know when its me my name is deverne coleman

[pengapop12]

from 3:12 to 3:30 BEST K5LA EVARR!