Waycross, September of 2020

Southern Railfanning is back! With such a crazy year, it was finally time to get out and railfan. I spent 3 days up in south Georgia and I was able to get hours of new footage. This video is just a taste of the action. First, we visit the new high-tech DD located at Racepond and then we venture north to Waycross, Ga to visit CSX's Rice Yard as I catch a very long Q409. After that, we take another look at the ever changing storage line and also see how busy Rice Yard has become yet again since the early days. Lastly, I sent the drone into the rebuild shop located on the edge of Rice Yard to see what rebuild projects are currently underway.

[@joannecarpenter8725]

Amazing video. The drone views are all crystal clear and the colors are so beautiful! Many thanks for sharing. Great place to view the trains.

[@bwnotredame06]

Awesome video, I watch the Waycross Railfan cam and the Diamond Cam feeds almost every day, from here in Texas. But this video going up to the mouth of the yrad answered alot of questions I had, and really gave me more insight on just how big the Rice Yard is. Thank you so much. This beautiful wife angle shots, was like a Christmas presents. You get a like and a sub for that.

[@luv2fly452]

SR, awesome video! I've not seen the overall drone footage that you have showing the east side of the yard. I amazed to see how much power is just sitting idle in this yard. That has to be costing CSX a lot of money I'm in the airline business. The airlines would never let that many jets sit idle on the ground. Nice work. I just subscribed also.

[@east_carolina_rail_photos]

I really do appreciate someone going to the waycross deadline on a regular basis, especially with a drone. Great video.

[@southernrailfanning5516]

Thanks 👍

[@jasonpetersrailadventures]

Nice video

[@BNSFBishop]

Very spectacular footage! Just shows how PSR put a vast amount of locomotives in storage. Nice catches of Q409 at its destination, I’m less than 2 hours away from there so I’ll be sure to visit the street next to the stored locomotives

[@multicolorfilms]

Thanks for uploading! I’ll be heading to Waycross in a couple of weeks, so this video helps a lot!

[@jaymccarthy6535]

I'm working with a company who is replacing the roof on the heavy equipment repair shop and it's awesome getting to see all these trains from a bird's eye view 👍👍

[@tomroise9426]

Yard is even busier is 2022. What about the bone yard? All of those going through a rebuild?

[@trainmasterbond1970]

I was thinking since the Atlanta yard is closed down now, would be why the Waycross yard is getting more traffic....

[@haaseshouseoscience6377]

Awesome catches, also just curious are you gonna do a big video of just the CSX rice Deadline yard?

[@southernrailfanning5516]

I’ve done a few already. Go into my channel and take a look. The major footage I want to get is the classification bowl tracks on the west side of the yard. The only problem is that there is an airfield close by and the approach to their runway passes over that section of the yard. It’s really a pain but I’m working on getting permission to do it

[@haaseshouseoscience6377]

@@southernrailfanning5516 oh ok.

[@atlittle1]

What is the shed with the sensors? High-wide detector? Great video. Thanks for sharing.

[@southernrailfanning5516]

CSX installed it so they can get a better look at the entire train with more angles to spot even more problems that a standard DD cant do.

[@davestrains6816]

Awesome video. Love the drone footage. What drone model do you use? Thanks for sharing. Dave

[@southernrailfanning5516]

Thank you! That video was done with the DJI Mavic Pro 2