Whos watching in 2024:

Worst railroad: 💀 Having no railroad at all:💀😭🥶

We do a lot of roll by or gravity switching here on the A&M but by golly I’ve never seen cars being rolled that fast!

Excellent filming as always! Ten thousand thumbs up!!!!!😊

Now Bill Gates is the major share holder. Friend of Efffing Biden crime family.

I hope they didn’t hire the little fellow being trained at the beginning of the video. A lazier man was never born. Really!

I love how they modified the BNSF logo on that loco to suit their short line.

Just my two cents, but having two locomotives should eliminate this risky move, particularly involving the grade crossing.

i got the same train in HO scale

Yeah thanks to this dumb ass no one can go to Nemo now thinks for messing it up for everyone else

Cool video

19:41. So sad 😥😥😥😥😥🙁

Emporia VA, along Davis street, nw tracks (abandoned) crosses the csx (just north of bus us 58). Would love any history you can record about it.

Thank you for the history lesson. I love it. You're right, the abandoned tracks...there is something spiritual about it ❤❤❤❤

I have photos of #5941 taken in the early 1990s, at RF&P's Bryan Park engine terminal right about when CSX merged the RF&P. She and a couple of sisters had been renumbered into CSX's roster but were still wearing their as-delivered New York, Susquehanna & Western yellow-and-black "Bumblebee" paint scheme. The B40-8s were heavily outnumbered by CSX's 150 or so spartan cab C40-8s, but they looked much snazzier in Suzie-Q's colors than the CSX grey and blue "Stealth" scheme worn by the C40s. The B40s were sold to CSX after CP took ownership of the Delaware and Hudson, which SuzieQ had revived after a period of neglect by the Guilford Rail System, and were put to work hauling hotshot intermodal trains. They were eventually painted into the YN2 livery, but not before I got some shots of them pulling trains south out of Acca Yard heading for Rocky Mount, NC, and points south.

Gotta Love that horn actuater 1 or 2 chimes or all the chimes

Thank you for documenting this gravity switching move that the Nashville & Eastern Railroad uses at their transloading spur in Cookeville, Tennessee, Drayton! The switchman/conductor needs to be careful with his handling of the hand brake to prevent any problems with this move. (25 June 2024 at 1717 CST)

Very Cool Video!!!!

I saw this last fall on an NS local. Pretty cool, never realized it was so rare.

I love trains🤗

Very nicely done. Great filming!

Thank you 🙏 I would love ❤️ to have the train 🚂 air horn trumpet 🎺 for my 🚙 car track 🛻👍🎥👏👏👏👋☮️

Great catch!

The safer way to do that is to split the power. If there is more than one qualified engineer then one crewman can ride the rear unit if more effort is needed. Even with a 3% grade that didn't look like a very heavy consist. The downside is that the engineer would have to walk the length of the train for the return trip. That can cause issues with some of the 'bigger' guys (me included) but it is safer to have the engine leading. FYI the horn is not required to be sounded at a crossing if the engine is not in the leading position. Flagging is required in most instances without gates.

I can see why Gravity drops are getting banned to be honest. It's cool but there is also a lot of risk. It really is a cowboy move. Those are not usually good ideas. Lol

rest in peace N&E now they’re rj corman

This video is really cool 😊

Awesome content! Thanks for recording and posting.

Dropping cars over a public crossing is not a good idea! I'm sure a rules violation as well.

That was cool. Dash 8's to boot.

Awesome video! Thanks for sharing!

No gates, I sure hope they protected that crossing lol

Make sure you don't hear a leaky seal. A sticking triple value will mess it up, sometimes it's better to just bleed off certain types of cars that you know will cause trouble.

That was cool thanks for sharing

There’s no way that’s legal, but I see why it’s useful

Love the Dash 8’s

What a thing to look at

Mind you this is what I found on google but It said BNSF still does gravity Switching but it's only in designed areas and the only hump yard that does this on BNSF is Northtown Yard. This could be wrong or not correct me if i'm wrong I'm a kid from nj where we see almost every railroad even sometimes CN so my state is the interesting one.

Very cool 👍🏻

I miss the n&e :(

Maybe I missed but why two locomotives used? (one knows the way to get there and the other to get back? :)

Trust me its even rarer or the class 1s. We used to have a roll by location on our division but after a few low profile incidents they've just banned it.

Its interesting that they sound the horn before the crossing every time the engine crosses, but they have no requirement to do so when rolling across with the loose cars. Is someone ahead of the cars protecting/flagging the crossing? I guess silently rolling cars across doesn't require whatever rule necessitates the horn normally?? I suppose they could radio the engineer in the engine nearby on the siding to sound his horn before the cross?

Poor EK subdivision. It could become a heritage railway

You're Awesome Daryton.

Fantastic Film 🎥

This routes now run by RJ corman

I'm surprised companies like N&E don't put their own livery on the "used" locos. You can clearly see one was from BNSF, and the lead loco from CSX.

Gravity foam

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