Nostalgia & History > The Busch Job - 10 years ago

CSX Y222 the "Busch Job" switches the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Columbus, Ohio. Although this scene was captured 10 years ago, it is still repeated 5 days a week to this day.

Andy

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That's a fine image. Nicely done.

Really like your shot. Great photo.

Randy

A very sharp and well exposed night shot.
Thanks for posting.
Gary

A first-class night photo.
Bob

CSX serves (or used to) the A-B brewery in Williamsburg VA.  Wonder if a similar scene can be viewed there.

Nothing better than the beer runs. The division of thge Rock Island I worked on had the "Hill job" which ran from the yard in Peoria down along the Illinois River up the hill to the Pabst Brewery and switched them. I have a good story I heard about that job but it runs pretty long.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

 Excellent photography!

Great photo!  Thanks for sharing.

Awesome shot!

Excellent night shot Andy!   Thanks for posting...

boejoe Wrote:
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> CSX serves (or used to) the A-B brewery in
> Williamsburg VA.  Wonder if a similar scene can
> be viewed there.

Yes, there used to be a Busch turn in Williamsburg and a lot of beer rolled out of there on rails in the 1970s to 1990s (and a lot of it in those FGE "Solid Gold" boxcars) when it was A-B's newest and second largest brewery (and most of the Michelob was brewed there).   Chessie had units based at the brewery, and there was nearly constant action.  The monorail from Busch Gardens amusement park over to the brewery went around and over many of the tracks into the brewery too, so you could ride the monorail and watch trains work the brewery at same time.   (I regret that I didn't visit there enough)

These days it's loads in (grains, rice, hops, barley...) but I think all the beer leaves by truck... and the brewery tour and "hospitality center" (where from 1975 to 1998 a person of age could get a free sample draft at any time they were open) unfortunately closed long ago...   

PS.  They restarted the tours - only on a few days and for a very limited number of people - this past year, but the monorail is gone and it's pretty depressing compared to what it once was in train activity...



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When InBev bought Anheuser Busch in 2008 they announced they would stop shipping beer by rail.  They shut down the Manufacturers Railway that serviced the St. Louis brewery and Foster Townsend Rail Logistics took over the line in 2011.  Now days the yard is empty except for some stored cars.  It appears they receive some hopper car loads but nothing is shipped out by rail anymore.  Some contract locomotive repair is performed in the former MRS locomotive shop.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/14/18 06:43 by MILW16.

Great shot..got a job up here at Gemco Ca..does the same thing. I guess people still like beer.

ENGINEER MIKE HERNANDEZ
Diamond Bar, CA