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Aaron Beaubien
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Scenic Railroading in East Tennessee - Fall 2018
Last year's colors were stellar and was lucky to catch them when I did. I really miss shooting video in the colors and I really regret that I didn't do more in the fall in 2018. I had planned to do a bit more on the K&O and former L&N KD sub, but traffic patterns didn't pan out to be conducive for daylight shots. If the colors pan out again in 2019 I'd like to shoot on a damp day.
Starting in Clinton NS 23G got 144's power hitched to the rear at Laurel to help shove them over Copper Ridge's 2.0% grade. This is one of the first memorable encounters with a former CSX AC6000CW. CSX shed a lot of motive power in 2018 to lease fleet owners and NS had leased several hundred locomotives. This AC6000CW, like the rest CSX had, were re-engined with a GEVO 16 cylinder engine greatly reducing the horsepower. The HDL 16's those units had pumped the 6000 horsepower with price of reduced reliability and bad fuel efficiency. I never realized how long those units were even when they re-engined.
I caught the train again at Copper Ridge shoving hard. Once over the top 144's power cut and returned to their train at Laurel. I caught them one last time near De Armond, a location just north of Harriman, TN. The train's crew went on the law not to long after that and re-crewed at Harriman Junction before heading north up the CNO&TP.
The next day found a more interesting chase. An empty Kopper Glo coal train was headed up the Jellico Branch for a run to the mine at Clairfield. The colors were intense heading up the branch that day and I was not disappointed by it. The lead unit sports a mellow K-5LA turned around on the engine which made for some pleasant echos in the valley.
The train had to get on the CSX KD sub at Lot for a few miles to the control point at Holton, where the branch to the loader begins. The train immediately plunges into the solid rock tunnel at Holton after hanging a left off of CSX. Both NS and CSX load at Kopper Glo at the end of the branch.
A few miles into the branch was ARCO junction. A secondary branch the Southern Railway accessed went back some 20 odd miles to the ARCO loader. For many years heavy haul unit coal trains loaded at ARCO and followed the same route back to Knoxville as the Kopper Glo trains. That coal generally turned south at Knoxville.
Enjoy!
Starting in Clinton NS 23G got 144's power hitched to the rear at Laurel to help shove them over Copper Ridge's 2.0% grade. This is one of the first memorable encounters with a former CSX AC6000CW. CSX shed a lot of motive power in 2018 to lease fleet owners and NS had leased several hundred locomotives. This AC6000CW, like the rest CSX had, were re-engined with a GEVO 16 cylinder engine greatly reducing the horsepower. The HDL 16's those units had pumped the 6000 horsepower with price of reduced reliability and bad fuel efficiency. I never realized how long those units were even when they re-engined.
I caught the train again at Copper Ridge shoving hard. Once over the top 144's power cut and returned to their train at Laurel. I caught them one last time near De Armond, a location just north of Harriman, TN. The train's crew went on the law not to long after that and re-crewed at Harriman Junction before heading north up the CNO&TP.
The next day found a more interesting chase. An empty Kopper Glo coal train was headed up the Jellico Branch for a run to the mine at Clairfield. The colors were intense heading up the branch that day and I was not disappointed by it. The lead unit sports a mellow K-5LA turned around on the engine which made for some pleasant echos in the valley.
The train had to get on the CSX KD sub at Lot for a few miles to the control point at Holton, where the branch to the loader begins. The train immediately plunges into the solid rock tunnel at Holton after hanging a left off of CSX. Both NS and CSX load at Kopper Glo at the end of the branch.
A few miles into the branch was ARCO junction. A secondary branch the Southern Railway accessed went back some 20 odd miles to the ARCO loader. For many years heavy haul unit coal trains loaded at ARCO and followed the same route back to Knoxville as the Kopper Glo trains. That coal generally turned south at Knoxville.
Enjoy!
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CNO&TP Snow - From Early 2015
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It has been several months since I've put up any videos and I noticed there were one or two videos in my file that I have never uploaded. I shot this one in January or February of 2015 after a decent snow fall. We start at Andy Cooper Road north of Lancing, TN. with a northbound movement hustling north. At Sunbright the hot Northbound NS Roadrailer 264 rushes north under some EMD power. It's sa...
Vintage Motive Power on Freight - Florida Central
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Let's take a trip to the past with an EMD GP30 built for the L&N in the early 1960's and a Clinchfield F7 built in the late 1940's lugging some loaded steel cars in the sunshine state. Seeing this kind of power in freight service is rare, but seeing it on a modern mainline is a treat to witness. Here we chase L&N 1030 and Clinchfield 800 up the Florida Central with over 20 loaded steel flat car...
EMD SW-1 - Southern 1012
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This little 6 cylinder 567 powered switch has been residing in Oak Ridge for some years and I have always wondered what it was like to see it running. Originally built in 1947 for the Southern Railway, 2008 spent several years in the early Southern freight diesel paint scheme with the dark green and white. Its later years has it in Southern "Tuxedo" paint while being renumbered to 1012. The lit...
Nathan M-5 - Clinchfield 800 - 3/16" Orifice
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This is an M-5 horn for Clinchfield F-3Au #800 which was recently repainted to back to the legendary Clinchfield grey and yellow. This horn is a 3/16" orifice setup and is privately owned. This was the same horn featured on the last run of the Secret City Scenic in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The horn has been painted at the Huntington Locomotive Shops where the F-3Au was also. Upon mounting on the l...
The TVA Hill climb - ALCO and EMD muscle
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On a crisp fall day the local switcher at Heritage Railroad went out the Blair interchange to pick up some loads of tank cars. I took the opportunity to get some video of the duo of ALCO 251 and turbo EMD 567 muscling the cut of loads up the hill at the 4 mile marker by the TVA substation.
Audio: CEFX 1050 - Airchime K-3LR2 Horn
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Audio: On a Sunday evening a loaded 56G Loudon bound grain train traverses the K&O district through Clinton, Tennessee. The lead unit is a CEFX AC4400CW number 1050 equipped with an Airchime K-3LR2 horn. These trains are over tonnage for the grade at Copper Ridge a few miles east and require pushers. The train pulled a knuckle south of Clinton, TN. While the crew was getting the train back toge...
NS Jellico Branch - Kopper-Glo Coal
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As many branch lines go they are seldom photographed for their sparse traffic. In recent weeks unit coal trains have been pounding the rail heads down on the former Southern Railway Jellico Branch. Constructed as part of the Knoxville and Ohio Railroad (K&O), the line ran from Knoxville, Tennessee to Jellico, Tennessee where it connects to the CSXT (Former L&N) KD Subdivision. Today, it merely ...
Seaboard Coast Line SD45 - Service in 2016
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2016 saw the last of the Secret City Scenic excursion train in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. That last excursion took place on Memorial Day weekend in May and was pulled by Seaboard Coast Line SD45 number 2024 in preservation. The engine was cosmetically restored by contractors in Kansas City, MO. and lettered by volunteers at SARM. The engine is also used in revenue freight service on the Heritage Rai...
Between The Bores - CNO&TP Tunnels 25 & 26
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On a cold, windy, but partially cloudy day, my dad and I went down to Oakdale, Tennessee to see a few trains and check out the tunnels down there. After a short and mild hike we arrived between the two bores. The short Tunnel 25 is the only one of the original 27 small bored tunnels built in 1880's on the then Cincinnati Southern Railway. It was enlarged and lined with concrete in 1963 during t...
Norfolk Southern's Office Car Special - K&O District
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At the beginning of my fall break from UT, I decide to kick it off by chasing the OCS up the K&O District to Knoxville. I have never seen it on this line and some of the photos that other photographers have got were spectacular. I had originally set up just south of Blair, Tennessee on the edge of a field. The elevated curve was a great angle, but the light was bad. Moving around the curve a li...
Honoring Our Veterans With Southern Heritage
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This video is several weeks old to the upload date, so I have since forgotten the train number. I want to say 288 was the number. NS SD60E number 6920 sports a special paint scheme "Honoring Our Veterans" leads an auto rack train with NS ES44AC number 8099 "Southern Railway" heritage unit helping out in trailing position. This was the first time I seen two of the specially painted NS units on s...
Railroaders' Last Ride - NS 229 on the K&O
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The week I had filmed this was when a north bound coal train derailed in Spring City, Tennessee causing the CNO&TP to be shut down south of Harriman, Tennessee for several days. The rather dormant K&O suddenly became alive with detour traffic. The hot Cincinnati, Ohio to Jacksonville Florida intermodal was one of the many detours. The local power out of Clinton for the most part was promoted to...
EMD Standard Cab - NS SD70 #2538 on 65D
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In recent months NS had a lot of their standard cab EMD road power in storage. This included the SD60's and SD70's. With a upturn in rail traffic a lot of these units are being released back into service. A lot of these locomotives are in pretty rough looking shape and in need of servicing and paint. On the traffic sparse K&O line from Knoxville to Harriman we catch NS 65D, an empty ethanol tra...
Leslie S-5TRF - N&W - Aluminum Tab Heads
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Here is another example of an N&W Leslie 5 chime. This one is done up with aluminum tab power chambers. These power chambers were built before the dome backs and after the bronze tabbed chambers.
Leslie RS-5TF - Saint Louis and San Francisco
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Leslie RS-5TF - Saint Louis and San Francisco
Leslie RS-5TRF - 1959 Manifold - Norfolk and Western MOD
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Leslie RS-5TRF - 1959 Manifold - Norfolk and Western MOD
Airchime K-5LAR24 - 1995 - CSX U-23B 9553
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Airchime K-5LAR24 - 1995 - CSX U-23B 9553
Airchime P-5R24 - New Cast - Illinois Central
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Airchime P-5R24 - New Cast - Illinois Central
S-5TRRO, I believe. Similar sound to N&W's RS-5T-RF.
There is no such thing as a "turbo howl" this is the fans and radiators trying to prevent the engine from overheating and altering performance or blowing the motor up. The fans are on the top of the engine next to the exhaust stack and airhorn and they make this sound when they are spinning at maximum potential. Some engines have their fans kick in like this even before the 8th notch is applied, some do it in 6 and 7 and when in 8 it becomes the loudest and fullest of potential. The sound is coming from the top of the engine and towards the rear .
what is up with the overlay over the whole video it’s unwatchable
0:26
I thought that was the horn until i heard the actual horn blare. That is absolutely and insanely cool!
It now has a RS5T
I love the sound of this horn
Kind of eerie but awesome sound! I don't like today's GE junk sounds at all!
I love that sound. I recall it when I was a boy at the age of 10 in 1963, when I saw the new Alco C-420 locomotives delivered to the LIRR (Long Island Railroad). They used the Alco V12 series 251 engines, 4-stroke cycle design as well, they were very smokey on acceleration from a stand still which was quite impressive, I even like the odor of the exhaust! My Dad took me to the LIRR station in Mineola, NY back in the very early to mid 1960's. We even saw the final service days of my favorite locomotive, the Fairbanks-Morse model CPA24-5 Consolidated Line of locomotive with the 12 cylinder in-line opposed piston diesel engine, unforgettable and fond memories of those F-M locomotives, the LIRR had five (5) of these 2,400 HP cab units, good times they were!!
It sounds like both a 🌪 a 🌀 at the beginning of the video!
Why does it sound like one cylinder is louder than the rest? I do like the fact, that it's a turbo-charged 4-Stroke, much more fuel efficient than the super-charged 2-Stroke engines.
This engine sounds just like the new commuter train locomotives in my area. I wonder if it is this engine.
Beautiful sounding horn
Guau vaya ese tren 🤣🤣🤣🤣 rapidísimo 😅😅😅
Que bonita sonrisa de trains 😂😂😂😂😅😅😊😊🎉🎉🎉
Sounds almost like full dynamic brakes with a heavy load moving down grade. I live on a steep grade and hear this exact sound a lot from trains moving down grade, but not so much going up..thats usually more of a deep thunderous droning exaust roar with a mechanical whining and a slight dash of turbo shriek from the EMDs....The GEs just bark and growl and launch plumes of smoke and fire going up grade 😮
Gevo-12 sounds better
This sounds like a 645 not a 567... exhaust note is too low. Still sounds great though!
Love the sounds of the FDL 12 cylinders, FDL 16 cylinders and the HDL 16 Gevo.❤
Oh my god
Norfolk Southern 9212
I love the gradual climb in rpm to a full gallop
Since I used to live in Jonesboro, GA, I model the Central of Georgia. I just got several locomotives and rolling stock in the Central of Georgia livery. I even have a 12 inch piece of mainline rail (120 lb.) from the Central of Georgia Railway Company. That was the official name of the Central of Georgia after it changed a couple of time. Then in 1963 Southern Railways purchased the Central of Georgia and then Southern was purchased by Norfolk Southern in 1982. Cheers from an ex-Georgian in eastern TN
I’m a steam whistle collector but this has become one of my all time favorite horns.
nothing howls like an EMDs turbo
Man!!! That engineer loves that horn!!! I love the SBD Property sign on the little trestle. So Cool.
WTF?
I love that sound. Santa Fe had Leslie's back in the day, before all the mergers etc. I miss that sound.
2:30 you can clearly see that it is uphill
Perfect amount of whistle for an HO layout
Motor de 3000 HP
Imagine your taking a nice little strole on that road, then all of a sudden you hear this:
What size airline and pressure running to the setup ? Have an M3R I cannot get to fire
With the sharp #2, it sounds like the K5H used as a stock sound!
Love those leslie train horn sounds. Keep sending more leslie train horn sounds like that.
I like the sound of that horn. Keep sending more videos like this one.
Sandcast Beauty!! Such a nice sounding one.
Definitely a great run by I was there in 1990 and got to watch the 611 pull a 22 car passenger train up the grade put on a great show. You can see the video at trebster4501 Just recently posted the trip from Chattanooga to Oneida definitely worth a look.
Doesn't she sound so happy in run 8? lol. edit: It's never really occurred to me before, but christ, imagine if that thing threw a rod or something. Better hope you aren't in the way!
that sounds like an alternator with a shot phase?
Sounds like an orchestra brass section Benny miller style
Roll tide
new zealands kiwi rail uses them in their DX class locomotives, DXC DXB DXR
I believe the dynamic braking resistors are behind the lower cooling vents on the rear, different to more modern GEs with resistors behind the cab.
Wish there would be a uptick in traffic because the K&O only has 2 trains per day now NS 278 and NS 279
Beautiful, beautiful K5H.
I sleep to this every night, but with two of them. Reminds me of my childhood and my favorite GE U Boat: *U50C.*
Yep did it.
Neighbors probably thinking oh god the train driver is on drugs again
Listen to that old cast P3