Eastern Railroad Discussion > UP 1989 D&RGW in Georgia

Seeing a UP heritage engine down here in Georgia does happen often, so the railfan community was pretty amped up when UP 1989 was leading a coke train to Rincon, Georgia on 10/16/19.

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Nice to meet you down in Jesup. Glad it came before it actually got dark.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/18/19 06:28 by akpsteam.

great video.  thanks for posting............

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Great catch and nice that there are not yet quiet zones there!

Regards, Jim Evans

Several questions, where were the scenes between Jenkins street and Jesup recorded?
That is a change in routing, those trains used to go GARR to Augusta to Rincon. The road crew would spot the load and usually have to pull the empty. It was a convoluted process you had to pull a track, shove it toward SEPCO and pull a cut in, repeat until the emptys were pulled and the loads spotted. The conductor got his exercise on that job, because of course there were road crossings involved. Coming from Savannah to the paper mill, you shove the train about 4 miles and the engines are on the right end etc. but if you pull the mtys, it would have to bee done holding the loads.

Trainhand Wrote:
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> Several questions, where were the scenes between
> Jenkins street and Jesup recorded?
> That is a change in routing, those trains used to
> go GARR to Augusta to Rincon. The road crew would
> spot the load and usually have to pull the empty.
> It was a convoluted process you had to pull a
> track, shove it toward SEPCO and pull a cut in,
> repeat until the emptys were pulled and the loads
> spotted. The conductor got his exercise on that
> job, because of course there were road crossings
> involved. Coming from Savannah to the paper mill,
> you shove the train about 4 miles and the engines
> are on the right end etc. but if you pull the
> mtys, it would have to bee done holding the loads.

Heard that a local job had gotten the empties and took them to Southover Yard. The loads with the 1989 went to Rincon around 3-4pm and the power went back to Southover light. W222 had already left Savannah after 3am this morning with the 1989 trailing 3rd. Also, there was supposedly a curfew on the Chattanooga Sub which is why it was rerouted.  

Trainhand Wrote:
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> Several questions, where were the scenes between
> Jenkins street and Jesup recorded?
> That is a change in routing, those trains used to
> go GARR to Augusta to Rincon. The road crew would
> spot the load and usually have to pull the empty.
> It was a convoluted process you had to pull a
> track, shove it toward SEPCO and pull a cut in,
> repeat until the emptys were pulled and the loads
> spotted. The conductor got his exercise on that
> job, because of course there were road crossings
> involved. Coming from Savannah to the paper mill,
> you shove the train about 4 miles and the engines
> are on the right end etc. but if you pull the
> mtys, it would have to bee done holding the loads.

Per the caption, that was Patterson, GA.

Great job there Greg as you battled a setting sun!!!
Thanks for your efforts!!!
NSSpike
 

Phil Maton
Villa Rica, GA

NSSpike Wrote:
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> Great job there Greg as you battled a setting
> sun!!!
> Thanks for your efforts!!!
> NSSpike

Thanks, was a long and busy day at Waycross.  The entire video on my YouTube channel is over an hour long.