Eastern Railroad Discussion > NS Manassas Yard Aerial

Image taken Feb. 22 looking west over the small Manassas freight yard from about 1000'.  The B-Line to Riverton Jct. (Front Royal), VA exits stage right.

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Is there anything (besides Amtrak) running in to Alexandria anymore ??

BarstowRiff Wrote:
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> Is there anything (besides Amtrak) running in to
> Alexandria anymore ??

Lynchburg - Alexandria road local pair, K95 and K99, run daily.  I believe most of their train is picked up / set out at Manassas en route.  K87 is the Alexandria switcher.

Andrew

Always like your aeria shots and now I can see how the tracks inside the wye are laid out

hollywood
NS B Line mp 74

BarstowRiff Wrote:
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> Is there anything (besides Amtrak) running in to
> Alexandria anymore ??


Virginia Railway Express Manassas trains to Washington Union Station.

There is an occasional Vulcan rock train to and from a quarry on a spur near Calverton, VA.  This image shows a southbound empty at the Godwin Dr. crossing in Manassas.

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Here is a picture of the quarry processing operation and a string of loaded stone cars..



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/27/20 10:34 by cinder.

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Virginia Paving, the NS TBT facility, and Vulcan Materials on the Alexandria end.

Has it really been almost 5 years since I stood along the deadend street to see N&W611?
And almost 30 years since N&W1218 went around the wye on a slightly different alignment?
"Time waits for no one at all"

Alexandria, Va is pretty much a CSX show, in general. All Amtrak trains that head south of DC as well as VRE trains stop at the beautiful station along the edge of downtown which has been a popular railfan spot forever. I have railfanned there several times for just over a decade. I don't think NS runs very much in Alexandria and west to Manassas. I have a trip planned to DC in May and it's possible that I may go to photograph a train or two crossing the high trestle in Accotink Park. Are there any daytime freights that run between Manassas and Alexandria and reverse?

Very sharp photos!  What kind of camera is on the drone?

Thanks, Norm
 

How does Vulcan Materials load the grave into the hopper cars ?.  No loader in the picture goes over the track.

Handheld Canon 60D.  1/1250 sec, 200 ISO.  Cessna 172.
 

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thanks for the images cinder.  be safe up there.  

hopefully i'll see you in the canyon again...........

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Thanks for the tech details!  Ah, I should have guessed that it was higher than a drone!
Norm
 

tomstp
Many rock and coal loading is done with tired front loaders. Just scoop it up and dump.
Go

Has there been any discussion of VRE running a train towards Front Royal?

Lots of discussion and research relative to the viability of commuter rail to Haymarket on the B-Line.  Consultants opined that the effort was significantly unaffordable and the VRE Board agreed.  Now a new Democratic Board of Supervisors has been seated and another feasibility study may be in the future.  We'll see.

In the earlier proposal didn't NS require a second track?

Thanks for the great pictures!

Yes Jimbo.  I believe that was an NS requirement.