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Yesterday's FCRD Yulee, FL to Kingsland, GA local with GP16's.

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Good stuff. Thanks, Greg!

Steven

Used to be good for 79 mph (and SAL engineers were known to cheat). Now FCRD is rocking and rolling at 10 mph, maybe? At least it's still there.

ctillnc Wrote:
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> Used to be good for 79 mph (and SAL engineers were
> known to cheat). Now FCRD is rocking and rolling
> at 10 mph, maybe? At least it's still there.

Not hard to figure out why, the merger of ACL and SAL into SCL produced two mainlines between Savannah and Jacksonville.  It was obvious one would get downgraded.

That is what I call a "junk" train.Just
look at it.At least they got the loco
numbers correct.
Sure has changed since I did the Trains
article about ten years ago.

Uncle Joe
Seffner,Fl.

Looked like about 25 cars on the local - some nice revenue, which CSX obviously does not care about.  

MEKoch Wrote:
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> Looked like about 25 cars on the local - some nice
> revenue, which CSX obviously does not care about.
>
Interchange traffic for the Saint Mary's Railroad

RF&P fan, you would understand why the Evertte sub was abandoned if you rode an engine over the trestles in yje Altamaha river swamp. One was about 50 ft. high and shook at 45 mph there was no braking on that trestle. The entire sub=division had no sidings of any kength. The longest was as Kingsland, and it was a combined northward and southward siding. The longest single siding was Thallman, and it may have held 140=150 crs now, and that is streching it. Parts were below sea level. The Nahunta sub had to be left fron Savannah to Jesup and from Folkston south. There's 50 miles there. It was 13 to Jax over the everette sub and it was removed from about mp S 534 yo S599. Also there was something about the Southern had trackage over the Nahunta sub until sometime i the 1980's. 

Trainhand Wrote:
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> RF&P fan, you would understand why the Evertte sub
> was abandoned if you rode an engine over the
> trestles in yje Altamaha river swamp. One was
> about 50 ft. high and shook at 45 mph there was no
> braking on that trestle. The entire sub=division
> had no sidings of any kength. The longest was as
> Kingsland, and it was a combined northward and
> southward siding. The longest single siding was
> Thallman, and it may have held 140=150 crs now,
> and that is streching it. Parts were below sea
> level. The Nahunta sub had to be left fron
> Savannah to Jesup and from Folkston south. There's
> 50 miles there. It was 13 to Jax over the everette
> sub and it was removed from about mp S 534 yo
> S599. Also there was something about the Southern
> had trackage over the Nahunta sub until sometime i
> the 1980's. 

I wasn't arguing why it was abandoned.  It made sense to me.  Technically NS still has trackage rights from Jesup to Jacksonville on the Nahunta Sub according to a Trainmaster I spoke to, they just never have needed to use it and I don't think the connecting track at Jesup is even passable today.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/11/19 19:21 by RFandPFan.

I'm not arguing that it should not have been abandoned. In addition to the other points, it's closer to the coast than the ACL and therefore more vulnerable to washouts when/if a big one hits Georgia straight from the Atlantic... which hasn't happened since 1898. 

What surprises me, I guess, is how much the track has deteriorated. On the other hand, I suppose no one has spent a dime on it since 1985.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/11/19 20:09 by ctillnc.

Does the St. Mary's railroad have any customers other than the naval base & GP?


 

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