Abandoned industrial railroad track restored to operation - Taunton, MA - 2023

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In 2023 it is great to see a previously severed and long unused industrial track rebuilt for a new customer and that's exactly what happened in Taunton, MA. A section of the Myles Standish Industrial Track was put out of use when the customer at the end of track closed about 30 years ago and was later severed when the John Hancock Rd. crossing was removed. Fast forward to 2022 and the track was cleared to be restored to the customer at the end of the spur. Track rebuilding followed and in Spring 2023 the first train delivered to the new customer, Musket Corp. This video shows the track before, some progress shots, and then trains using the track.
Taunton, MA
2022-2023
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@gaius_enceladus 23 часа назад

Wonderful to see this old track being restored to use!

@StateofArrowstan 9 месяцев назад

Its always great to see old track being put back to use and not rotting away!

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@Shane19776. 9 месяцев назад

I wish they would run tracks back into my town again here in southwest TN. It was early 1980 the last train I watched go thru here then the pulled the tracks.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@jonr3809 5 месяцев назад

Graceful giants. Good to see a restoration. It is so hard, if not impossible, to get new right of ways.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@25vrd48 9 месяцев назад

Great to see old abandoned rail service restored for service . Way too many tracks have been removed when there are customers that really need rail car access . A friend of mine had to go through a bunch of stuff to get rail service restored . It cost him quite a bit but it'll pay for itself in a very short time period . He was so happy when he got his first car spotted . Very good video .

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@20PINKluvr 9 месяцев назад

Im wanting to know what that process is to getting rail service

@baker3person 9 месяцев назад

Where is he located

@ericplaysbass 10 месяцев назад

I love the smell of fresh ties and the crunch of clean ballast in the morning!

@SouthCoastRailVideos 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@PRR5406 9 месяцев назад

I'd walk a Myle for a Standish. Seriously, rail delivery of freight in the modern age is the correct way to go. Excellent restoration project. We need far more of this.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@happyhome41 10 месяцев назад

Wonderful before and after ! Thank you.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 10 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@vettebecker1 10 месяцев назад

Glad to see the line survives! Far too many lines are lost now days and never return

@SouthCoastRailVideos 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@AidenSexsmith 10 месяцев назад

True. My dad said that someone wanted to reactivate a 4 mile line to provide jobs to a depressed small town in western PA, but NIMBYs said no. The plant would've produced up to 400 jobs, but they needed the rail to ship out oversized equipment. The 400 jobs went to North Carolina.

@richardcline1337 9 месяцев назад

@@AidenSexsmith,. nothing like shooting yourself in the foot to get your way! The area close to me is known tourist trap area and MANY major businesses have refused to locate here because of the fear local a-holes have of disturbing the mentally challenged tourists that come here. Sadly, the area gets the dregs nobody else will take.

@edwardmiessner6502 10 месяцев назад

All railway lines should be kept clear when the railroad company abandons them. Too many of them are redeveloped as trails or worse sold off to adjacent properties or developers losing the possibility to restore rail service in the future.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@douglasskaalrud6865 15 дней назад

Good idea! Who is going to pay to keep the right of way clear when it’s not generating any revenue? The railroad? They’re in business to make money, not to burn it.

@paxsonrose7914 6 дней назад

😅😅😅😅

@maxorca24 4 дня назад

Rail trails fulfill that exact purpose

@maxorca24 4 дня назад

@@douglasskaalrud6865 usually for rail trails some government agency takes over

@brianfalzon6739 9 месяцев назад

Glad to see lines coming back to life in the future even more.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@barbararoberto1258 5 месяцев назад

They did an amazing job , it's good to see o l lines in use again

@SouthCoastRailVideos 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@radanju3 9 месяцев назад

That's freakin awesome! Never thought I'd see the days in today's track infrastructure in Mass for anything abandoned to be rebuilt. Would love to see the other side of MA's decommissioned track from Lowell to Nashua and beyond back in operation, possibly reviving the Lowell line that used to operate into Manchester.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@garymessina1609 9 месяцев назад

Great to see old lines put back in service too many have been lost

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@1940limited 9 месяцев назад

Always nice to see a railroad come back to life. I enjoy industrial switching and branch lines.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@jwrailve3615 9 месяцев назад

Rare your gonna find any industrial rail like this brought back but when it is man is it nice to see!

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@brianbickley8368 9 месяцев назад

My favorite videos! Old abandoned lines brought back to life! Thanks!

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@sirblack1619 4 месяца назад

I love seeing spurs and rail lines being restored and put back in service. Great video of the restoration process!

@robertbeauregard4672 9 месяцев назад

Very cool. Thanks for posting. It was very active there in the late 80’s early 90’s when Raytheon was in the park and manufactured the communication vans and hummer “campers” for the Army. I lived across the highway on the lake before any of this was built. Old enough to have seen trains on the Fall River line in Mansfield before it became a walking trail.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@southothehighway 9 месяцев назад

Trails-to-Rails!

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@armandoperez7967 9 месяцев назад

This shows how much can be done when there is a will to do it.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@jim2lane 9 месяцев назад

and the money 😉

@armandoperez7967 9 месяцев назад

@@jim2lane yes

@williamh.jarvis6795 15 дней назад

The Grafton and Upton Railroad appears to be one such case. Sometime later, I would like to go out to downtown Milford, MA and check out the new connection between the G&U RR and the CSX's Milford Running Track at South Cedar Street. So far, using Google's Earth street view feature, I am able to see a partially finished connection at this location. (Strange as it may seem Earth's sky view feature, taken back in 2013, still shows the remnant rails in the S. Cedar Street's grade crossing from the former connection. This sky view photohas yet to be updated!)

@ajknaup3530 8 месяцев назад

Did they re-use some of the old rail? How cool is that! Sweet video: thanks for uploading

@SouthCoastRailVideos 8 месяцев назад

Yup, some of the old rail was reused. Thanks for watching!

@aleu650 22 дня назад

Excellent. Plus, it's nice to hear that legendary EMD645. 👏

@Thedane2023 15 дней назад

SO its therefore it sounds so d... much like DSB MZ 1401 (has a EMD645E3)

@SPTunnelMotor 9 месяцев назад

This is really cool! Good to see the right thing happening. I've come across this spur on google maps before - and I remember being disappointed that the line had been severed at the crossing, making an overall abandonment and tearing up much more likely - I would never have assumed that a business might take on the endeavour of bringing the spur back to life! Well done, Musket Corp.!

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@SPTunnelMotor 7 месяцев назад

@@SouthCoastRailVideos Thanks for creating! 🥰 I think that's the real effort here 😜

@user-nx6qr1mt6f 10 дней назад

Great vid! I really enjoy old rails being put back to life

@dorepage7076 10 дней назад

Great ghost town shots are great.

@wagnerferreira7 4 месяца назад

top acompanhamos está página aqui no Brasil somos fans ferroviários

@CommuterRailProductions 9 месяцев назад

I actually live in this town! Awesome to see this railroad back up and running

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@stevevezaeu4936 9 месяцев назад

great job showing both old and new, thank you!

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@amyreynolds3619 9 месяцев назад

Someone came up with the idea of rails to trail for Saluda grade. That is crazy to ride a bike or walk a 5% grade. There were many accidents before Southern railway built the two runway tracks at sand cut and Melrose junction .

@williamh.jarvis6795 9 месяцев назад

I recently saw the condition of the tracks on Saluda Grade using Google's Earth feature. The roadbed did appear to be in very sad shape. Spotted many washouts along the way.

@spankyfuentes3502 9 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Wow thank you!

@spankyfuentes3502 9 месяцев назад

Your welcome

@amyreynolds3619 9 месяцев назад

This is not as bad as the Saluda grade. NS has abandoned the entire railroad line almost to past the town of Saluda almost to Henderson, NC.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@michaelmcginn1706 6 месяцев назад

Awesome train 🚆 video.😊

@SouthCoastRailVideos 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@ReynoldsBerry-xe8np 6 месяцев назад

I hope heaven has alot for railroad tracks😊

@SouthCoastRailVideos 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@benjaminpettis5468 4 месяца назад

Great Video & always glad to see old abandoned track turned back into active rail, what will these rail serve, new plants? Thanks for Sharing.

@MattsTrainsandThings 3 месяца назад

It's really nice to see railroad service being restored somewhere. That brings a glimmer of hope for a unique form of transportation some people take for granted nowadays. I mean, trains are more fuel-efficient than tractor-trailer trucks, free up highway space, and carry more cargo. Yes, maintaining and operating a railroad is expensive, but it can pay for itself and give rail fans a nice show.

@MultiCrusher2 9 месяцев назад

I would love to see trains come back to New England.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@spankyfuentes3502 9 месяцев назад

Excellent! 🚂👍🏽❤️!

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@ronniefarnsworth6465 9 месяцев назад

The old New Haven lives on !!! 👍

@tomy.1846 9 месяцев назад

Excellent to see, awesome video! 😄😄

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@AidenSexsmith 10 месяцев назад

Didnt you have this video posted a year ago? I love your videos and I'd love to see more railroads reactivated. What customers will it be for? Will it be hopper cars, boxcars, center beams? On my model railroad, I have a railroad MOW crew rebuilding an abandoned section...

@SouthCoastRailVideos 10 месяцев назад

This is a compilation

@AidenSexsmith 10 месяцев назад

@@SouthCoastRailVideos Just wondering! Great videos you have...I wish more railroads would be reactivated. Save the Falmouth branch.

@TEverettReynolds 9 месяцев назад

> What customers will it be for? Musket Corp., a diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) terminal. DEF is a liquid used to reduce the amount of air pollution created by a diesel engine. Tanker Cars.

@cdavid8139 9 месяцев назад

excellent documentation

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@sorshiaemms5959 9 месяцев назад

THE 6218 locomotive is the same number as on the last CANADIAN NATIONAL RR active steam locomotive a northern type 4 8 4 great video love spur line action

@FlyBikes089 9 месяцев назад

39:25 is neat! Abd, outstanding video!!! 👍

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@fogdan 10 месяцев назад

Awesome Video!!!

@SouthCoastRailVideos 10 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@daveogarf 9 месяцев назад

GEEZ! Easy on the zoom, there!

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

GEEZ don’t watch it then

@butti9249 9 месяцев назад

Very good idea!

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@Oyasumi52 9 месяцев назад

3 locos for 2 tank cars seems a bit of an overkill in my eyes Where have all the RS 1's gone when they're sooooo needed again, but it's good to see old lines rebuilt and back in service again. 😄

@gravelydon7072 9 месяцев назад

Heck, an ALCo S-2 could handle it just as well.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

These engines cut off from a larger train and other duties to serve this customer. No need to bring your whole consist to the end of an industrial track to drop off a few cars.

@dougkathydavies3024 9 месяцев назад

It looks like they will have to do some more work on that track. It looks pretty "iffy" right now. They need to bring in a tamper and a regulator again.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@cynthiabinder3730 9 месяцев назад

Rails are back to work thankfully there is a need n damand. Trains 🛤are better than trucks 🚚 😌 true. Right to your manufacturing back 😊🚪 . Awesome

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@mmsmits2868 9 месяцев назад

This would be great to model in HO or N on a shelf. Small runaround, street crossing, single switchback siding, rail-served customer...

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@animenut69 9 месяцев назад

Watching your videos makes me sad in a way since so much rail history in my region has either been ripped up and gone forever or paved over. What used to be an easy dozen or so railroads is a small fraction now

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@ronniefarnsworth6465 9 месяцев назад

That CSX three car local was just a bit "underpowered" Huh with three GP40-2 and 9,000 HP !! 😉 You must be the only Railfan in the area, I'm amazed with new track opened !!! 🤔 This looked like a practice run to learn the switching ??

@billearl621 9 месяцев назад

My thoughts as well - training

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Not training or a practice run at all. That was the first revenue move.

@ronniefarnsworth6465 9 месяцев назад

@@SouthCoastRailVideos Okay it looked like they put the cars in and then out. Was this different days also ?

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

That was a compilation of different days

@ronniefarnsworth6465 9 месяцев назад

@@SouthCoastRailVideos Ahh thank you, I believe that was the confusion some of us had 👍

@davidredmayne7269 9 месяцев назад

Good to see line working again...but from a UK PoV, isn't having 3 locos hauling one tanker a bit uneconomical/environmental?

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

They have larger trains to haul after switching this customer. They cut away from those cars to serve the industry.

@erichsh58 9 месяцев назад

Very cool. Wish you had caught some of the actual construction. Three locomotives to deliver one tank car? Some very long railroad ties in places!

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@crlaw75 10 месяцев назад

Hoping those crossing signals are working now.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@Noblemarq12 9 месяцев назад

Hopefully more businesses will use it? i mean i'm glad it's restored, but for that money there has to be more than just one(hopefully)

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@timcoyle50 4 месяца назад

My dad was born in Taunton.. 1919.

@JamesRigsbt-hs6og 4 месяца назад

Local trains deliver an pick up cars on it route it may have several cars before it gets to its yard

@oneparticularharbor144 10 месяцев назад

Haven’t been there to look but has the second spur been worked in yet that ran off the runaround? I think you mentioned it also was being worked on. I know a rail had been removed but the switch was still intact that went to it

@SouthCoastRailVideos 10 месяцев назад

I haven’t seen anything since a section was cleared

@tomroise9426 9 месяцев назад

Great timeline. Thx for showing before and after. What is the commodity in the cars?

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Urea

@glennoconnor2980 9 месяцев назад

For DEF(diesel exhaust fluid)

@mrdoggone 15 дней назад

I love too see that, I worked for CSX , that's why I say don't rip them up

@SouthCoastRailVideos 13 дней назад

Thanks for watching!

@StevieWonder737 9 месяцев назад

Seems like a huge investment with ties, rail, switches and crossing signaling for just a few cars. Unless Musket paid the bill for that I don't see how CSX is going to make a reasonable return on investment. Maybe the traffic will ramp up. Great job of showing before and after.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@TEverettReynolds 9 месяцев назад

I believe the customer always pays the rehab bill for their spur and siding. They are receiving Diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), a liquid used to reduce the amount of air pollution created by a diesel engine. In that, I am sure, your tax dollars, either from the State or Fed, were used since this is a GREEN initiative.

@StevieWonder737 9 месяцев назад

Interesting. If the company paid for the reconstructing the siding into their business, do you think CSX paid to rehab the line leading into the siding? Would that include the signaling at the crossing?

@oliviru100 9 месяцев назад

in Poland, since 1945, 1,500 kilometers of narrow-gauge and standard-gauge railway tracks have been liquidated now the routes are being rebuilt again old railway viaducts and embankments are being renovated new electric and hydrogen diesel locomotives are being purchased zero emission environmental protection

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@gregblanton9386 9 месяцев назад

Boy they have you Europeans brainwashed on the enviro activism, soon all of Europe will collapse over that nonsense.

@jurajriecan8172 9 месяцев назад

I wonder, why three locomotives had to be used for this shunting duty. I believe that one would be enough.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

These same engines serve other customers and pull cars before and after serving this customer. No need to lug the other cars around when switching.

@tinlizzie 9 месяцев назад

Great job!

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@schifferben1873 9 месяцев назад

I’m guessing CSX is serving a fertilizer company? Someone previously mentioned Urea in the tanks? Just curious. Nice video, very interesting.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Urea for DEF

@schifferben1873 9 месяцев назад

Thank you

@peterrobino9383 10 месяцев назад

That industrial park was an Italian prisoner of war camp during WW 2. They used to bring the prisoners in by rail.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@spuds6423 9 месяцев назад

I wish they did that for the Adirondack RR between Tupper Lake and Lake Placid but due to influential rich people who didn't want the "Peasants" riding trains through "their woods", they got the politicians to abandon this historical corridor for a "trail". Eventually it will not be maintained and go back to nothing and They will be "left alone" to rule from their "Castles".

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@ricksclick 9 месяцев назад

Why did they use 3 locos to move one tank car? Good video. I liked when the ground shook your camera.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

They cut off from their other cars to switch this customer. At times this train does need a lot of power to pull long cuts of loaded demo cars.

@ricksclick 9 месяцев назад

@@SouthCoastRailVideos Thank you.

@KevlarVTX 9 месяцев назад

CSX is doing a good job.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@kelseywedge7167 10 месяцев назад

That must be one heavy tank car

@SouthCoastRailVideos 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@robertlannon8859 4 месяца назад

I'm wondering why the street rails were gone, likely highway construction, BUT in my town, the Sacramento Northern long gone of their interurban service to Oroville since the forties I believe, on East Gridley road those tracks stayed until a road project took them up recently, viewable on Google earth...from the 2013 road series...

@ocsrc 9 месяцев назад

What is in the tankers ? The information on the website says they deal in ethanol and diesel and other products

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Urea

@Rocky-Esq 7 дней назад

The track is great but what’s going on with the back and forth of the tanker wagons?

@SouthCoastRailVideos 7 дней назад

That was the railroad switching out the customer

@Gilstrains 9 месяцев назад

🚂👍👍👍

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@AllanLoveJr 9 месяцев назад

You need three locomotives for one tank car unbelievable

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

They cut off from the rest of their train to switch this customer. They then went back to their heavy cut of loaded construction debris cars.

@FWD37 9 месяцев назад

Where is the connection with the main line located, how far from this location ?

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

They restored 2000 feet end to end plus run around track and the customer spur but the connection to the main is about 1.5 miles down. The rest of the industrial track was in service.

@FWD37 9 месяцев назад

Thank you@@SouthCoastRailVideos

@victoriamolina6434 9 месяцев назад

Hello and I'm going to that place that they make and what function do those trains fulfill?

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

They transport freight

@victoriamolina6434 9 месяцев назад

@@SouthCoastRailVideos and what load?

@edwardzou3743 9 месяцев назад

Using 3 GP40-2 locomotives (over 9000 hp) to move just one or two freight cars seems like overkill and a massively overpowered train. Is this the result of poor management or are those four tankers deceivingly heavy? Perhaps 300 ton loads each for a total of 12000 tons? At least then it justifies the 3 locomotives attached.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

These engines cut off from a larger train and other duties to serve this customer. No need to bring your whole consist to the end of an industrial track to drop off a few cars.

@markrhuett 9 месяцев назад

Surprised they didn't install welded rail

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

That’s unnecessary for an industrial track

@michaelnelson9113 9 месяцев назад

I live in Wisconsin... There was a line that I believe at one time was the old Milwaukee road... Anyway, that line is gone, and it was made into a bike trail none of them seem to want to use!!! Anyone that drives knows what I mean too... It's a shame, because there are towns dying without the rail service, and tons of new companys that want, and need it, but politics are leaving it a perfectly good corridor, in favor of bicycles and fucking dog walkers...

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching

@Tiffy552 9 месяцев назад

Can any of the old rail be used albeit on new ties or is it all new rail??

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Some of the old was used

@martynbuzzing3327 20 дней назад

3 locomotives to move a few tank cars? What did I miss?

@everybuddy5924 9 месяцев назад

cant believe they using 3 loco's for industry switching. 1 or 2 loco's if on a way freight, but on industry work, just one is needed

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

They cut away from a longer consist to handle this customer.

@everybuddy5924 9 месяцев назад

@@SouthCoastRailVideos That may be so, but industry switching is either done by a local yard or a way freight with one or possibly two locos. You dont want every train picking up or setting out cars, thus tying up the main lines. For instance We would get our train at St.Paul MN and drop the train at Glenwood yard but we did not stop to pickup cars enroute, that was the way freights job. If a train was getting close to where the way freight was going to do some switching, the dispatcher would have them pull into a siding so the other train/s can pass first. then the way freight can do their job.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

This is a local running without other traffic nearby. They handle all the customers in this stretch which uses a lot of power. Infact they tend to handle a dozen or more loaded demolition cars per trip from just one customer not far from this scene.

@user-bf1md8xv1p 9 месяцев назад

Three locomotives to shuttle one car? Isnt that inneficient? At 30:24 the three locos became one.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

This is a compilation of different days and different trains

@eastamericantrains589 2 месяца назад

I’m amazed that csx is putting money into this kind of stuff. All I keep hearing is how they’ve blown off small customers and pushed them to trucks in my area. It’s nice to see the opposite happening.

@nenaddimi8319 9 месяцев назад

can someone tell me why is there a need for 3 locomotives to pull one tank car?

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

They cut off from their other cars to switch this customer. At times this train does need a lot of power to pull long cuts of loaded demo cars.

@duncanholden2826 9 месяцев назад

This is one of the few times that a class 1 buying a regional railroad is better.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

They didn’t buy a regional railroad to do this

@rdembow 9 месяцев назад

Very few pics of rail crossing and track construction???????

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

This wasn’t a step by step video. It was to show a before and after.

@andrewlaverghetta715 9 месяцев назад

Who pays for this to be reconnected and fixed? The new customer? Local government? Csx? I’m guessing it depends on who owns that area? I think my local city government owns the spur that goes through my town. I wonder if they pay for the upkeep, though csx delivers on it, and still just to a single customer for about 1.5 miles of track.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

It always depends. In this case I believe it was at least partially paid for by the customer.

@williamlee1429 9 месяцев назад

Love to see old rail come back to life. But come on, you’ve got 9000 hp and those three jeeps moving a couple of cars around no wonder the railroads went broke what a monumental waste of fuel when people are already complaining about the planet. I’m not an environmentalist, but CSX, you got to do better than this an MP 15 or a 600 hp switcher can do the same thing.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

These engines cut off from the rest of their train to do this move. No need to lug a dozen loaded demo cars to this industry with no space to put them.

@jacquessmith8653 9 месяцев назад

Three engines for main line local?

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

They have a number of customers this same train serves but they cut off from their other cars to serve this customer

@thechannel9637 9 месяцев назад

Why was the crossing not on?

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

It had not been placed in service yet

@williamh.jarvis6795 9 месяцев назад

One could see that the flashing lights were "bagged over," using a black plastic wrap covering over them. When they are ready to put the flashers into service, the bagging material will be removed.

@berndmayer3984 9 месяцев назад

someone has a lot of fun with camera panning and zooming in and out, which is tiring.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

Unfortunate!

@robertmoore254 9 месяцев назад

Why the use of a flagman at the intersection when there are lights there?

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

The lights were not in service at the time

@32055064 9 месяцев назад

You need to add audio commentary

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

The video speaks for itself

@MichaelBeeny 9 месяцев назад

Why do they use 3 powerful engines to shunt only one or two trucks? That cannot make money, can it?

@SouthCoastRailVideos 9 месяцев назад

They have other work to do before and after switching this customer. There’s no point in going this far with the rest of their train either.

@MichaelBeeny 9 месяцев назад

Makes sense, many thanks for your kind reply.

@davidfoubert1493 10 месяцев назад

I noticed the crossing protection worked in the beginning not the end. Also the state had to pay for all that track rehabilitation , no way CSX paid for that. Unfortunately those customers after a year go back to trucks.

@SouthCoastRailVideos 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching and I doubt they’ll go to trucks

@skisalomon81 9 месяцев назад

@bailey-critter are you talking about Burke?

@skisalomon81 9 месяцев назад

@bailey-critter they have a sister company in bow, nh. They tried rail there (pan am) and they lost a ton of product in spoilage. I don't know if they pulled the plug at Burke at the same time because of that incident.