SLUGs, Speeders & Santa Fe | TN Railfanning 

This must be the longest railfan adventure you've done. Lots of entertainment.

Buc-ees is building I think Store # 58 in Springfield, MO, which will be the 1st in the State of Missouri. Springfield, MO, is where Bass Pro Shops HQ is. 👍

@V12 Productions jolly good show brother 😃 Keep up the awesome work

Lands of Cherokee Indians . Awesome video . Eastern leg used run all the way across Tennessee to Harimon TN that line has allot history old Tennessee Central RR know guy has old equipment from former TC .

Buc cees are AMAZING!!!

Thank you for stopping in TN! Over here it is definitely a great place to railfan.

Awesome Video! Great footage and lots of interesting info!! Must have been a great ride!!.........

@ 2:38 the engine leading the train is Ex Amtrak F40PHR #381 and even though it's not on Amtrak anymore, @ one point it was still in the surfliner paint scheme before being repainted into the Wego star

Awesome video. I enjoyed seeing the sights in Copperville, TN as I have always found that to be a fascinating place.

Absolutely love the new intro!

This was fascinating! Thank you! Cheers from Australia 🙃

Awesome ATSF Engines And I did learn some stuff like about the old train station that is now a hotel

Good seeing some old Santa Fe! great vid!

Beautiful video with great commentary and catches. We enjoyed wathcing and thank you for sharing this with us all. Have a great rest of your Monday.(Steve)

Another stellar video.

V12… great story as always👍🏻❤️🚂( darn those pros!!🎣)

Cool video. I was just in Etowah Friday morning going to the foundry on the north side of town and passed the old depot twice. Definitely a pretty area up there.

I’ve always had a fascination with slugs, and rumor has it that the slugs you see on road trains are a favorite of the train crew. Very interesting to see those in Chattanooga!

I was thrilled to see you stopped in my hometown of Etowah. I grew up there when the shops were still in operation and there was a lot of activity going on. Sadly, those days are gone. I live in Chattanooga now and visit Coffey's Cliff regularly. There is also a great place to watch trains in Ooltewah just north of Chattanooga where the line splits to either Atlanta or Knoxville. I enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work and keep 'em coming.

Nice job!

In this Entire Video, I Had A Smile On My Face. Amazing Video, And Really Nice Shots!

That place you was at over at North End Boyce on CSX is called Coffey's Cliff by local railfans

Another good video. I'm sure you had a good time in the Nashville area.

I actually just took a trip about a month ago on the Blue Ridge Scenic railway which terminates in McCayesville and it indeed was a beautiful sight to see.

I'll be in Chattanooga for a week in April. Would love to know where the cliff is. Looks like a great spot. Another great video, too...

Nice

Great video! You did an amazing job on this one with lots of amazing train catches! This video also helped me catch several trains when I was in Nashville, most notably the WeGo Star and RJ Corman. However, sadly, the Santa Fe B23-7s weren’t at the spot where you saw them. I presume they were on a different part of the railroad.

Next time you visit TVRM, try to see if you can go see the the HO scale model train layout. It's in that red brick building at the front entrance of the museum, the TVMRi (Tennessee Valley Model Railroaders, Inc.) is behind the bottom right back doors. The club was actually the group that had the big layout in the Chattanooga Choo Choo before Marriott bought out the place and kicked them out for a guitar museum of all things.

The hump yard at Bellevue, Ohio is back in operation.

As I said before when you posted the Radnor Yard video earlier, you need to find some of us railfans in Music City before you come. You only scratched the surface of what's interesting. But to comment on some of the things you showed....you should have gone inside the Union Station Hotel. Not only is it gorgeous, but it still has the old L&N/NC&StL timetable sign for the passenger routes in the lobby. The fact that the building is still there at all is a miracle since it nearly got torn down twice in the 80s. And there is a plan to restore Amtrak service from Nashville to Atlanta that was part of the huge Amtrak budget appropriation by Congress a year ago. We'll see if it actually happens. The elevated CSX rail lines you showed just to the north of Union Station date back to the 1870s and there used to be a rail yard nearby that was replaced when Radnor Yard was built in 1910. There also used to be a small yard within site of the hotel as part of the mainline track going through downtown Nashville which even included a turntable. It's all gone now and CSX has even sold some of the adjacent land that used to be part of the yard to developers in the last year, because of the Nashville real state boom. The accident memorial site for the famous Dutchman's Curve wreck of 1918 is in west Nashville behind a Publix grocery store. More than 100 people lost their lives in a head on collision....the worst death toll for a train accident in the US. The rail line is still there, though altered a bit to straighten the former double blind curve. It's CSX's Nashville to Memphis main line built by the Nashville and Northwestern railroad beginning in 1852. After Tennessee was captured by Union forces in the Civil War, the Union army finished the line all the way west to the Tennessee River where it could replenish supplies for troops in the area. To answer your question about those old GE B-series units in Santa Fe/Conrail livery owned by the Nashville & Western....do they move? Actually, all the time. Those units are a handful of locomotives that N&W uses to service customers from north Nashville all the way to the next county near Ashland City. If you're lucky, you can catch them in action since all traffic on the line never exceeds 10 MPH (N&W is only 18 miles of track). The quality of the rail line was pretty awful since it sat either lightly used or abandoned over the last 50 years although RJ Corman has made upgrades in recent months including replacing rotten wood ties in North Nashville that had to date back 60+ years. The rail line ends just past the Cheatam county line but the line used to go all the way to Hopkinsville, KY. Most of the high iron past the end point has been officially abandoned although some of it still hasn't been torn up including an old bridge over a swamp lake just east of Ashland City. The line actually picks up just north of Clarksville and south of Hopskinsville where it is operated the Department of Defense where it services the Fort Campbell army base and interchanges to destinations north. What's left of this line and the Nashville and Eastern line you showed with the Music City Star commuter train are what's left of the Tennessee Central Railroad which operated in the region from about 1901 to its bankruptcy in 1969. The N&W and N&E sections don't connect anymore and use CSX as an interchange just walking distance from where you saw the old GE B-units. The path that used to connect the two rail lines is now Interstate 440. There is also a really neat swing bridge on the N&W side crossing the Cumberland River. It's fed by a long wooden trestle on the east side but the west side of the bridge you can literally walk right up to. And finally, the Tennessee Central Railroad Museum is the go to place for railfan nostalgia in the area. Just east of downtown Nashville, it chronicles its namesake's past as well as fallen flags like the L&N and Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis. And speaking of the NC&StL, steam locomotive 576 is currently being rebuilt for excursion service behind the museum. A 4-8-4 Class J3 "Dixie" built by ALCO, it was former tourist attraction at Nashville's Centennial Park until it was moved out of the park a few years ago having sat on static display since the late 50s when it was donated to the city. It still has a couple years left on the restoration but yes, you missed that too. You can catch up on its progress at nashvillesteam.org.

Well done. The NARCOA could have been expanded to a full length video on its own. Fascinating.

interesting tidbit about the rivers. when we were learning about the various ones in GA back in 2nd grade, I was taught the name to be the Ocoee.

I've been to dubuds yard and that cliff I've got video of a Norfolk Southern SD60E shoving Cars in the yard!

2:42 it still has that amazing Nathan K5LA

Yay!

The F40PH numbered 381 is notable because, for the longest time, she retained the ex-Pacific Surfliner livery. It's a shame the new WeGo livery looks so ugly. As for Santa Fe 4219, she reminds me of a 'DC' class diesel in New Zealand that was also numbered 4219.

If you ever come through TN again, you should stop by at the crossville model railroad museum. It's literally behind the bucees. Also close by is a short line that goes from Emory Gap to crab orchard, there's a lot of history behind it

There's a csx line that goes in Brooklyn.

There is no trip in Texas without a stop at Buccees! Maybe in Tennessee too

The Great Smoky Mountains are in both Tennessee and North Carolina.

4:42 best company

I stayed in that hotel in Nashville. It wasnt crazy expensive and well worth it railfan from bed!

We are in the same state as you

was watching project smoke with steve raichlan and heard your voice for the big green egg commercial... or was i dreaming

The next time you’re in Nashville go to 19th Ave. there’s a rare railroad, crossing bell there

Two (2) things I’ll Never be able to figure out about the Minds of Railroad Mgmt.🤠 Why Remove Humping out of a Yard and what were they thinking 🤪 with PSR ? 👎

The hump yard at Bellevue, Ohio was recently reactivated in 2022.

great video of autumn in the Appalachians ~ but I doubt the local retail owners appreciate the advertisement for the non-local (Texas) company "Buc-ee's", as they wouldn't for a new WalMart or Target

Looks like he came up pretty quickly on a hand-operated switch

I think they got the cars from VRE. The Chicago cars don't have the large rectangle letter boards down on the left side below the windows.

Where did you find those santa fe engines? I am stationed up at Fort Campbell an i would love to take a trip down to Nashville to see them

3:58 F40PH 122 Sounds Like a F59PHI

A train hit a car in austell 4 days ago! and it was caught on camera. you need to make a video about it

Can't remember his name but the guy that runs the chamber of commerce is the local historian in Etohwah real cool guy met him years ago.

Where did you see the old B23s?

Anyone know where the Santa Fe’s are I looked all over and could not find em

"LIKE" button has been torqued to the manufacturer's recommended specification. "CLICK". If I'm lucky, I'll get to see you in the next installment from V12 Productions !

9:53 I’ve been there

What are the sirens at 7:12 for?

Thats a lot for 12 minutes