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This is broadcast quality stuff. Wait! Better! Very very nice.

great video sir

Thanks very much for this video. You essentially documented my grandfather's workplace with C&O where he was a communications specialist along that route. His office was in the west side of the Maysville train station, and my grandparents lived in the apartment above the Caproni's restaurant (a premium rainfan location for a kid). My mom went to high school and associated with Nick Clooney back in the day. Lots of memories in Maysville. Both Augusta and Maysville are neat old towns with a lot of history in a beautiful setting.

Thank you. My uncle Jack worked at Russell and it was the thrill of my childhood when he took me to the hump yard to watch him assemble trains.

What a beautiful town.

A superb video, as always NKY Railfan! Thank you so much for your hard work on this. Coming from Louisville, I appreciate it all the more, as you cover areas that were my virtual backyard.

Thanks for posting this! My grandfather worked there, as did my father and four uncles. We lived on Railroad Street as a child. I hate seeing it in such disrepair today!

Time Stamps for Trains and the Russell Yard: Augusta: 1:10 Maysville: 4:40 Russell Yard: 7:55

Another excellent video! I'm really looking forward to the Corbin vid, you'll be close to me on the EK

Very good, and informative, content. I've been a railfan since I was a kid growing up in Cumberland, MD which was a major hub for C&O/B&O and WM back in the day so I have a passion for CSX. But pretty much anything "railroad" gets my interest. Thank for sharing with us.

PRLX still uses the facility, and those NS locomotives were purchased by PRLX and were brought there for storage. To my knowledge they aren't for scrap, except for a few. I drove by there yesterday, and there were a few UP SD90's that were being cut up. There are currently former KCS SD70MAC's, NS SD70M's and SD70ACU's, UP SD90MAC's, CSX SD70ACe's, SD70M's, SD60's, SD60I's, SD60M's, GP15's, a GP38 and a GP40. All are there for storage, and some are for scrap, like the NS SD80MAC's and SD70's (all scrapped) and UP SD90's, which are in the process of being scrapped. There is also currently a former UP SD40T-2 and a CN GP9. That train you also saw pulling out by the depot in Russell was actually the yard switcher. It makes an appearance that far pretty often.

Great video man! It's amazing to see the Russell yard from the air. Maysville is actually really beautiful from the air too. Looking forward to your next videos.

Not sure if you've figured out the speed limit through the town of Augusta, Ky. or not but this was my seniority district, even tho I've been retired for 9 years I'm pretty sure Augusta city limits itself is indeed 25 mph. IF you look at your video right around the 1 minute mark, you can see as the locomotive approaches the beginning of the 25 MPH Permanent Speed restriction sign (you're looking at the back of it, green side which is the resume to MAS speed for west bounds). The actual 25 mph restriction is only between the signs.CA 618.3 (east end) to CA 619.7 (west end of town). Enjoyed your video.

All of those NS locomotives were sold to Progress Rail around 2017-2020 and are awaiting either Scrapping or being Parted Out is my guess but what catches my attention are those 2 ATSF SD75Ms! Those are pretty rare locomotives and the fact they are still in Santa Fe colors makes them pretty rare to come across. I believe that Russell or at least what they don't use for moving or car storage are used for Locomotive Storage. I'm very surprised to see a UP SD90MAC there at CSX's Russell Facility wonder if that's on Lease or what the deal is from UP bc I noticed that there are no patch marks present on that unit which is very rare too

Nice videos

Informative video, thanks!

Thank you Mr WKRC for the video.

Very cool video and documentation.

You should go down the Big Sandy Sub soon. It is getting signal replacements soon. Gotta get those signals while ya can!

Btw at 12:45 about the NS locomotives. It turned out that Norfolk Southern was facing a money problem and by late 2019 they decided to slash more than 500 locomotives and sold them off (mostly to progress rail). Also, rumors are saying that the 46 Norfolk Southern SD70ACU’s that were sold progress rail rumored to go to CSX later on (that I don’t believe in).

I work there on the Cincinnati sub. The reason for the locomotives at the Raceland car shop. They have been cutting all the locomotives up for scrap metal saving the Diesel engines for repairs. They cut up all kinds of locomotives csx Norfolk southern UP. on the east end of the yard it’s the y100/200/300 flat switching yard job. It’s hard to believe all the jobs that have been cut here. It’s all about cut scrap and sale with railroad. Very interesting video thanks for the post. You are correct on the Augusta train speed. It is 25mph through there for freight train speeds they did raise the speed up to 60mph for some locations on the sub since being maintained for Amtrak

another excellent video your drone work adds so much to the video as does your narration and history lessons along the way. Have you ever thought about stepping in front of the camera to begin and end your videos like Danny Harmon does with his Distant Signals videos, I would encourage you to think about it and get some more recognition for the good work you do!

This is going to be good

Intersting all the NS units what if they are to be scrapped? What was that looked like a old bridge over the yard, maybe a walkway bridge?

Nice video. My great uncle back in the C&O days had a coal forwarding business and his office was in the coal hump tower in Russell Yard. There was also another hump tower for merchandise trains. I have a drone, but is Kenova a no fly zone for drones? By the way I photographed trains on the north side of the Kenova bridge back in the 1960s when it was N&W. I don't know the condition today but I imagine the area may have more vegetation creeping close to the tracks, plus I was close to if not on the right-of-way.