One of CSX's Largest Yards: Flat-Track Switching in Russell, Kentucky

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Hey everyone and thanks for checking out this video.
You’ll see the CSX Russell Yard in action.
I can't find any sizes of CSX yards, but this is about 4 miles in length.
That's similar to it's largest yard in terms of car volume, Rice Yard in Waycross, Georgia.
This was a hump yard, but now only utilizes flat-track switching.
The Russell facility has upgraded part of the yard to electronic switches which allow for faster sorting of cars.
You’ll see plenty of cars being sorted and a look around the yard.
We then head to the Progress Rail Facility where locomotives are scrapped.
Lastly, we head to the CSX shops in Huntington, West Virginia where we check out the rebuild line and some of the other engines there.
Let me know what you think and comment any information you have about this yard.
Real-Time Footage Begins: 18:38
Following a Car Being Sorted: 24:56
Switch Being Thrown and Lights Changing Color: 31:55
Kicking 3 Hopper Cars: 36:33
Tank Car Being Sorted: 42:38
8 Locomotives Moving to Pick Up Cars: 45:16
Pulling Yard Air off a Cut of Cars: 47:38
6 CSX GE Locomotives: 1:00:55
8 Locomotives Pulling Out: 1:02:00
Closeup of Armored Recovery Vehicles: 1:03:11
Doubling Out: 1:13:15
The Roundhouse: 1:16:53
Watch the Track Switch Lights Activate and See the Track Indicator Sign: 1:21:07
Another View of the Recovery Vehicles: 2:07L:41
**Engines in Storage**
Progress Rail Facility: 2:17:50
Former KCS Locomotives: 2:23:27
Prime Movers: 2:33:55
A Mix of Locomotives: 2:34:51
CSX Huntington Facility: 2:48:27
The Spirit of Maryland: 2:48:52
CSX Scale Test Car: 2:52:56
Original 8 Locomotives Waiting in Huntington: 2:56:21
Huntington Locomotive Paint Shop: 3:00:05
Click here to see what the yard looked like in 2016:
• Russell, KY and The C&O

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@EntertainmentWorldz

super great video sir ❤❤😍😍

@mumps59

I love this, thanks for posting. Especially like it when a kick turns into a shove because the kick wasn't hard enough 😀.

@phuturephunk

Man, I could watch sped up yard work all day long. Infinitely fascinating and your VO's, as usual are fantastic. Russell Yard was the Chesapeake and Ohio's primary Coal classification yard. Charged with routing the CnO's massive coal operations between east and west and up into the great lakes for ore dock operations. The Raceland shops were originally constructed to exclusively service the Chessie's massive hopper fleet. At its peak their inventory of coal hoppers crested at around 60,000 cars in service. Eventually they started working on other cars and the facility still repairs CSX's cars to this day.

@Charles-um5hd

Road slug means the PRIME MOVER has been removed. Slugs just have traction motors in the trucks but no prime mover. The electric traction motors in the slug feed off the power provided by the mother unit through MU cable connections between the engines.

@paulsturtz7638

Fascinating, Thanks!

@geoffreyyoung5419

Great show this is quite the operation love this show keep it up

@charleswoods9938

Yes I would like to see this yard back in the L and N Days if you can do that if possible

@samuelriedel7994

Really Kool Kyrailfan good video and seeing my hometown that railyard was booming in 90s see all the Chessie Loco before csx come

@charleswoods9938

Hey There in that big Yard there I dont see any Auto Rack Train Cars in the Yard at all

@treos17

2291 doesnt have a prime mover. Theres a giant block of concrete in place of it. It still has dynamic capability so thats what the fan is for, for cooling the brake blister.

@Stefan_Boerjesson

The likely increased video speed makes it look like stone age shunting sending the cars away at high speed, hitting the other cars hard.

@ShiftSouthern1110

I think I'd said something before, but if you ever make your way back towards conway, you should check out Mingo junction, canton yard, and youngstown, and if you want to go a little further north you can see conneaut. All of these yards are withing an hour of one another so you could knock out all 4 in a day trip. However, there's not as much there as the big yards but still lots of switching going on in them and locals working around them. You'd also see a lot of the wheeling and lake erie in Mingo. Park near the closest restaurant to all of the yards and you would be able to get your drone out there. Not a rail fan but I work out of these yards throughout the year along with Conway

@welcomeherelena

Hello!😊Have a nice weekend! How is it going? Great channel and nice videos.👍211👈

@charleswoods9938

Also if Possible is there any way can video and any L and N train car that is still out there that is if you can find any thats running around some where on the CSX Rail System if possible I know it could be hard to find any L and N Train Cars hey but there is allways a chance you might find one I know the Odds are finding any are not good but theres allways a chance

@davecashman8336

I don’t like the look of cable-stay bridges, either.

@keithmoore5306

did they get Otis the drunk or Willy the wino to layout that one track?? as for bridges give me the old riveted iron girder box style bridges for both road and rail bridges! these cable jobs are retarded and ugly as a mother in law! those M88's are most likely headed to or from fort Knox to the Lima tank plant for overhaul going by the green camo the last i heard fort Hood had that diarrhea brown camo! the 10 plus engines is most likely a power positioning move that drag didn't need that many! that could be a road slug i've heard some are equipped with dynamic braking and it'd need a fan for that system! by the way those covered hoppers, would you happen to know what those circular openings on the ends are for?

@steffentreue1000

😅😂😂🤣🤣🤣 auch ne Möglichkeit wenn die Berge weit weit weg sind . . . 😅😂🤣