3rd AM with wind blowing heavily making for a negative 25 wind chill temperature and the local utility is having trouble with the supplier of natural gas and needs a 30% reduction of usage. Another talking about next week with rain and mid-40s. Trade for a cookie and cocoa wishing you and yours a blessed Christmas
ChainsawN&W1218, pretty scenery with the snow on the ground and on the locomotives 🚂 plows /pilots while the snow flies up as freights are highballing by,the Railroads depend on those switches to work especially the automated ones that alot are thermal switches powered by propane for snow and ice,I've seen in Chicago where they got frozen any way and the Railroads would use those charcoal roll out tunes they light on fire 🔥 too unthaw the switches, have a Christmas Eve and Christmas 🌲!🛤🚂
The CSX eastbound at 14:00 is running on the old Erie that goes to Galion to turn north towards Cleveland. There used to be a nice unique switching pattern at Galion that I photographed back in the 70s. My last time there was back in the 80s. West of Marion the track ran west that paralleled 95. Not sure about the road number. I chased a Conrail train doing 70 at least in my 68VW Fastback. If it hadn't been for distance and the price of gas I would have gone more often as Marion provides history, and of course trains. It was a 2 hour drive from west Akron to Marion.
@@therailroadtiespiker Back in the day I visited all the operating towers and got to know the operators who allowed me to watch them work as well as watch trains from a different perspective. MACE at Massillon, McKinnly in Canton, RU at Sterling, AR on Arlington in Akron, and there are many more that I have forgotten their telegraph call letters. The Erie was my favorite when chasing trains from Barberton to Sterling and beyond. All I can say those were the days, my friend.
@@therailroadtiespiker There is a line that belonged to the B&O that ran from Bridgeport, Ohio to Clinton, which was called Warwick (Railroad Name) where heavy coal trains were weighed west of Clinton on the inside weigh track before entering the main line. From there it went to Lorain where these trains were dumped for export, and returned to Bridgeport in exchange for another loaded coal train. The B&O ran as many as 3 and sometimes 4 per day round trip with F7s and sometimes upwards of 210 cars of 70 and 80 tonners. Today this line from Clinton south belongs to R J Corman, and I don't know much more than that from all the changes. From Clinton south to Massillon were two tracks belonging to the B&O and the Pennsylvania RR with shared trackage rights. The Pennsylvania split off at Massillon to go east towards Canton, and the B&O went south through Beach City on down to Dover Yard. Now there is only one track.
hello enjoy the coal train 5 maybe 10 years most power plants will be operating natural gas the green sign by the signals should tell the train crew to resume normal speed after passing it ,if the signal bungalow has a little saitalite dish it's owed and controlled by csx dispatcher.
Always great to see those long coal trains - they need that for the plants that manufacture parts for those silly electric cars. Coal is one of our most valuable natural resources!
