CSX's Oldest Operating Coal Loadout! Watch How This 50 Year Old Tipple Still Loads Coal Trains!

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Join us on an epic adventure as we explore the thrilling Poorfork Branch of the Cumberland Valley Subdivision! Get ready to witness a YN2/Mac duo powering a West Rock coal train loading at NRG. We ditched our weekend plans to embark on this exhilarating chase down CSX's historic 112-year-old Poorfork branch. Experience the awe of the Totz tipple, still in use since the 1930s, and marvel at the NRG loadout handling unit trains even 47 years after its construction! Despite newer loaders stealing the spotlight, the old Fast Load tipple from 1976 still shines bright in 2023. This video has been a personal favorite, and I can't wait for you to enjoy it as much as I did. Thanks for tuning in, and may you be blessed with an exciting watch! 🚂✨

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@bowandarrowindian3704 5 месяцев назад

God Bless the men and women that do this job

@tjsnyder1968 Месяц назад

This video is awesome, really enjoyed - segment with coal plant in background, snow falling, and distant sounds of train approaching. Could just watch it all day, so calming, could be a excellent relaxation video- lol

@tomschmidt3165 7 месяцев назад

Terrific videography. Could you please leave the captioning on longer? Didn’t always get through them and they are a nice addition to your video. Thanks for posting.

@tomtweed2138 6 месяцев назад

Yes, you went to the trouble to write very good & interesting captions, Please, Leave them on screen, at least twice as long. TT.

@Justme-jt1ef 6 месяцев назад

Umm it’s called the PAUSE button.

@Justme-jt1ef 6 месяцев назад

@@chessieandjack sounds like you haven’t got a clue as to how your device works sucks to be you

@m9ovich785 6 месяцев назад

@@Justme-jt1ef That does not always work when watching full screen. When I pause, the on screen display stuff pops back on and covers up the text at the top of the Screen. (32" monitor on a PC)

@Justme-jt1ef 6 месяцев назад

@@m9ovich785 pause doesn’t work in full screen I don’t know about that one I think ur full of it.

@noahkleugh9323 23 дня назад

Great sound with an awsome video to match. The sound of the horn echoing through the hills is magical.

@kens.3729 7 месяцев назад

Very Interesting Video down in Kentucky in Coal Country. Keep up the Strong 💪 Efforts because it is Noticed and Appreciated. Thanks! 👍🙏

@BlackMan614 7 месяцев назад

Though that prep plant building may be old, I am sure inside it has the latest machinery. Prep plants have come a long way from the 70s when you'd see screens/crushers, cyclones and thats about it. They have magnetic separators, flotation cells... and of course the crushers and cyclones are hi-tech and of course low emissions.

@michaelbegay9573 7 месяцев назад

Like the way the horns echos thru the valley. 👂

@1traintracker 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for putting together this informative video and posting it. It’s good to see the old L&N still in action.

@alexmodern6667 7 месяцев назад

Love Baxter Tower glad to see it s still here'

@cathyoldham7596 7 месяцев назад

Great job producing an awesome and very interesting video. The way you caption each location allows me to follow along on my CSX map. Thank you for what you do!!

@AppalachianRailfan99 7 месяцев назад

Welp, this one has earned you a subscriber, as I live on the NS Appalachia district, CSX has been part of my life for a long time. I used to live next to the CSX CV sub, but I’ve since moved

@cncpgreatlakesdiv4896 7 месяцев назад

Awesome very nice THANKS FOR THE POST.😊😊👍👍👍

@BBFHD721 7 месяцев назад

Nice Micah! This is so cool! I wish I could be there and be in your videos.

@RJSAMCRO 7 месяцев назад

I work for RailCrew Express here in NC its the best job. I pickup crews from CSX yards taking them to hotels or back to their home yard. One of my favorite spots is Duke Power Plant where the Coal is processed. What an operation inside there. Up close and personal with these awesome engines.

@PunmasterSTP 7 месяцев назад

Tipple? More like "Titillating!" This was a really cool adventure 👍

@john5321 7 месяцев назад

Wow! Flood walls around the tracks? Good to see Harlan County - X Engineer Officer USS Harlan County LST 1196

@filanfyretracker 7 месяцев назад

seeing the pacing of the train reminds me of a time I saw someone try and do that to a Metro-North on the Harlem Line that I was riding into NYC, They gave up when the train hit around 85mph. Only knew the speed because it was an older EMU where the driver cab had a window into the passenger cabin so I could see the speedometer. Because of course id sit up there to see how it was operated.

@dougclem7711 7 месяцев назад

In 74 we were hauling the coal to the TOTZ tipple. Clyde Bennett loved the color green.

@robertmohler9131 7 месяцев назад

Its also amazing how tiny the Broad Top coal field was

@danielkennedy1524 7 месяцев назад

Just beautiful! Thank you!

@earlwidmeyer2654 7 месяцев назад

What an awesome video with the drone footage. Absolutely stunning country to shoot vids in. The point where the train rounds the bend at the interlock tower was mint. It almost looked like a modeled scene on someone's layout!!! Great vids man!!! Cheers! Earl

@NSandBNSFrailfanProductions 7 месяцев назад

if anyone doesn’t know there is one in Catskills that has been doing stuff since 1920’s and doesn’t work anymore and abandoned in early 2000’s sucks that it don’t get used anymore but there is old stuff in there u can find like a old elevator that doesn’t work & cranes & broken stuff followed by water going as high as 20 feet in the building that’s been sitting there not moving for over 20 years but cool video u have here!

@eastkentuckyrailfan 7 месяцев назад

Nice one buddy

@asullivan4047 7 месяцев назад

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator was describing thru ( CC.) Remember Jimmie Rogers the " Singing Break Men ". A genuine break men till changing careers for a singing entertainer 🎸🎶 one. ( 1926 thru 1933 ). Most memorable song " Break Man's Blues 😭 ". Viewing this presentation from the comfort of my computer room. Along the " Space Coast " 🚀of Florida 🐊🐊. Wishing viewers/ R.R. Employees a safe/healthy/prosperous ( 2024 ) 🌈🎉😉.

@joekugelman4196 7 месяцев назад

Loved your video….. keep up the great work!

@peterscandlyn 7 месяцев назад

Gotta agree!

@RJCRailfan 7 месяцев назад

Great video!

@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont 7 месяцев назад

Funny how "back in the day" we lamented these "modern" loadouts vs. the old windowed tipples with coal company logos painted on the side. Now, they are the stuff nostalgia is made of. Don't forget to appreciate the coal hoppers. Where I live, it is nearly 100% round bottom coal gondolas. That high-bannered switch stand is also unheard of up this way (northern West Virginia). Nice job. The dreary winter day makes it even better!

@hobsonbeeman7529 7 месяцев назад

That dreary weather sure adds to the realism of the video. Somehow reflects the passing of better days gone by!

@railyardfilms6491 7 месяцев назад

Csx coal route are rares 😊

@JohnnysTrainVideos 7 месяцев назад

Great video...

@timmyfrierson2684 7 месяцев назад

Hey Railfan Micah I just found your channel and you got some darn good content and that is my favorite trains of all is a unit coal train but anyway man y’all try to stay warm and safe out there and we’ll see you on your next one

@tinindian9543 7 месяцев назад

ELECTRIC CAR FUEL !!!

@JohnnyCarroll-wi6tx 7 месяцев назад

very interesting.hard to believe that a coal tipple that old is still in operation.

@charlesmullins3238 7 месяцев назад

H and my cousins husband is an engineer for csx and probably drivin one you’ve filmed….robert is his name

@1903A3shooter 7 месяцев назад

NICE JOB on the video.

@woodhonky3890 2 месяца назад

The only thing I missed was seeing the 50 year old tipple loading coal trains.

@railfanmicahturner 2 месяца назад

@@woodhonky3890 Your in luck, as I uploaded a video Monday of them loading! Go to my channel page and check it out!

@earlwidmeyer2654 7 месяцев назад

You just earned a new SUB!!! Cheers! Earl

@Railstream 7 месяцев назад

Love the coal load-out video nicely done!

@TheAustinSubRailfan 7 месяцев назад

Nice K5LA on CSX 440!

@mrcpu9999 7 месяцев назад

I really enjoyed that. Very well shot and edited, a real pleasure. I agree about perhaps keeping the captions on a tad longer, you gotta be paying attention or you'd miss the end of it. Liked and sub'd. Keep 'em coming.

@tdclymore 7 месяцев назад

Gotta be a speed reader!!!

@RailFanRob 7 месяцев назад

Great footage man!!

@robertmohler9131 7 месяцев назад

I wish the EBTs coal prep plant at Mt. Union had had magnetic separators so they could have gotten rid of every kind of impurity known to coal

@nhyardlimit 7 месяцев назад

wow I just found this channel! it just popped up. pretty nice! subbed ya!

@rogerb5615 6 месяцев назад

Was the first part of this filmed up near Gate City? I sued to live in Kingsport and often drove up there to watch the unit coal trains come down out of VA. Also used to visit Natural Tunnel, never got tired of watching trains come out of that big old hole in the mountain!

@railfanmicahturner 6 месяцев назад

Not this one, though that isn’t too far away. NRG loads Eastman trains however, and they pass through Gate City a couple times a week

@gerlandkent6377 5 месяцев назад

[thank, you for youre great video]👍👍

@grasshopper5765 7 месяцев назад

Engine 440, I have seen that engine passing through Jacksonville on the tracks that runs along HWY US17 on into Orange park Florida. That train goes down to the coal power plant somewhere down in Miami Dade County.

@terrylark8003 7 месяцев назад

Can you leave the subtitles up a little longer?

@railfanmicahturner 7 месяцев назад

I can, this is actually a pre-feedback video. My recent videos, which will release over the next few months, have already had the change made 🙂

@m9ovich785 6 месяцев назад

@@railfanmicahturner Yes, Please do, My old Eyes can't read that fast LOL...

@timothy4037 6 месяцев назад

16:30 was a beautiful picture

@charlesmullins3238 7 месяцев назад

Is that the flood wall in Williamson? Boy I spent a wild night or 2 at the borderline bar there…I think it’s still there just different name that slips my mind….i steam cleaned all around that area

@railfanmicahturner 7 месяцев назад

That one is the flood wall in Loyall, Ky, however I do have a Williamson video coming in the next few months 🙂

@Kmax916 7 месяцев назад

Curious, what are those giant metal doors for at the Loyall yard? (Or at least they look like they can open and close) Great video!

@railfanmicahturner 7 месяцев назад

Those are flood gates, built in the 80’s I think after a large flood in 77 devastated the area

@charlesmullins3238 7 месяцев назад

Have you took the trip to bald knob in cass on the Shay’s..? Highly recommend it…I got inside and set in operators seat of a 1923 Shay…one of the highlights of my life…lol. And I’m no train nerd just equipment in general and something that’s ran for that long up a 9% grade is something…

@railfanmicahturner 7 месяцев назад

Cass is somewhere I would love to visit, I always did love th e old Shays 😊

@loiswallace3334 13 дней назад

Very interesting and informative video. From ~ 8:49 to ~ 10:25, there seems to be an issue with the camera exposure fluctuating a little. Very unusual.

@railfanmicahturner 13 дней назад

@@loiswallace3334 It was mostly due to the overhead clouds at the time I believe, thanks for bringing it to my attention!

@that65_guy 15 дней назад

@16:32 I seen some trout talking shit saying I can't catch them💀

@randomoldguy3967 7 месяцев назад

My friend drives heavy haul coal trucks and loads out of Totz pretty regularly. Coal is about gone now, and most of the communities that thrived with it. But nobody cares, it’s just Appalachia.

@edmonroe9768 6 месяцев назад

Don’t take info down so fast, it’s very important

@natehill8069 Месяц назад

You didnt show _any_ coal being loaded. Once minute the train is empty, then its magically full.

@utubegeneric 14 дней назад

Sure would've been nice if you could've gotten a shot of the train coming back through the tunnels at tunnel hill on it's way back to Loyall. You may could even stay in your car and get the video out the driver or passenger window ?? Or certainly with a drone if the dogs are acting stupid.

@OutdoorsSC 6 месяцев назад

Love your videos, we are trying everyday to make out videos better, any suggestions would be appreciated.

@railfanmicahturner 6 месяцев назад

It’s all about how you present information and your transition between clips!

@jjMcCartan9686 7 месяцев назад

Just like me ,50 years old & still gettin it done 🤘

@troytheconsumeroflargequan3254 7 месяцев назад

What is tha5 structure behind the locomotives at the beginning?

@railfanmicahturner 7 месяцев назад

That is the flood wall, built after severe flooding in the 70’s

@RailPreserver2K 7 месяцев назад

0:41 whats with the wall? Levee's?

@railfanmicahturner 7 месяцев назад

Flood gates, built after a large flood that occurred in 1977 🙂

@Stormbergrail Месяц назад

Another great video, is there a rail map of this area?

@railfanmicahturner Месяц назад

@@Stormbergrail There is, you can search “CSX Cumberland Valley Subdivision” and it should show you

@mushethecowboycook9353 7 месяцев назад

Nice video it would be nice if you talk and explain some things at times

@railfanmicahturner 7 месяцев назад

I’ve thought about it, but am very self conscious when it comes to my voice, especially when narrating 😂. I may consider it for the future.

@richardtrudeau7363 6 месяцев назад

Is this down in the.Hollar

@RailPreserver2K 7 месяцев назад

There plans to try saving baxter tower ?

@railfanmicahturner 7 месяцев назад

Not currently, which is unfortunate, but for now it seems to be safe. Some trackage nearby however, not so much.

@RailPreserver2K 7 месяцев назад

they planning to rip out the mainline? Also i have a friend whose doing a railfan documentary if you wanted to get involved.@@railfanmicahturner

@jonym45 6 месяцев назад

Great video. Why are there gates on the railways and roads?

@railfanmicahturner 6 месяцев назад

They are flood gates to protect the town

@jonym45 6 месяцев назад

@@railfanmicahturner Thanks

@chairrockfarms1337 7 месяцев назад

"Brakes"

@marioxerxescastelancastro8019 7 месяцев назад

0:54 What is the huge flat device to the left side of the locomotive?

@railfanmicahturner 7 месяцев назад

Can you specify a little more? I’ll do my best to answer 🙂

@ericj810 13 дней назад

Wheres this at, west virginia?

@railfanmicahturner 12 дней назад

@@ericj810 Dione, Ky

@tommycooker3996 7 месяцев назад

Why wasn’t there any actual coal loading footage included? It was just the train arriving at the loading point and then footage of it finished loading. Should have had some more actual loading footage in it.

@railfanmicahturner 7 месяцев назад

There are other videos on my channel from here if you would like to see more from NRG

@dannyhaley7610 7 месяцев назад

the caption has it wrong.its not gaynor ky.its baxter ky.

@railfanmicahturner 7 месяцев назад

Modern days, it is Baxter, however in the 70’s the L&N referred to it as Gaynor. I wanted to include it as a nod to the L&N heritage 🙂

@rayisland23 7 месяцев назад

Slow down the subtitles!

@railfanmicahturner 7 месяцев назад

It’s a suggestion I am most definitely working into future videos 🙂

@donwarren52 7 месяцев назад

please leave the captioning on longer, why can't you talk and explain what is going on

@roady1710 Месяц назад

Hey, I got a great suggestion for you very nice looking real fanning video but two strikes against you or maybe one take your damn writing that you write maybe leave it up on the screen a little bit longer but the main part structure your editing and put it up on top of the video so you can pause the video and you can read it instead of at the bottom of the screen when you pause a ton of other video clips and thumbnails come up and block it so you can’t read anything I know you can fix it. Maybe I’m not the only one that complained about it but maybe I am. Let me tell you it looks like you have a lot to say I wish I could read it.