Eastern Railroad Discussion > Take me to church

K465 passes the Toe River Free Will Baptist Church at Huntdale, NC along the former Clinchfield on the first day of March, 2021.
Train is bound for WSSB Railroad via Wadeboro, NC.

Grady McKinley
Asheville, NC

 

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Powerful image! Why is KCS there and on whose railroad? Excellent post, thank you.
Go

CSX line

It's the xClinchfield line, now CSXT.  A lot of the ethenol trains from the midwest come down the xClinchfield as it's a direct route from the midwest to the southeast markets.
Plus they can bypass Atlanta.  Traffic on the Clinchfield is still not like it was but it's getting better.  It can get colorful at times with CP, CN, KCS, BC Rail, UP, BNSF to name a few.
Mike

Thank you Mike.
Like the well-known local railfan locations near me, where others may be getting great images, other railfans have no idea of where these great shots may be coming from, like this one.
I was always interested in the Clinchfield but geographically challenged to see it in action. I'm sure glad there has been some traffic developing to keep it alive after the downfall of Appalachian coal.
Gonut

That's a great image!  Very well done!

Great image!! Roughly how many trains per day run on the line?

Scheduled:

Q692 (Waycross to Russell)
Q693 (Russell to Waycross)
F769 (Kingsport to Spruce Pine turn)

As Needed:

N759, E759 (Coal for Plant Marshall/Terrell)

N313, E313, N312, E312, N760, E760 (Coal for Brice from usually Bailey)

Various other coal symbols
U444, T444, T342, T478 (Coal for FEC, and Middleton). From time to time Wateree SC loads as well.

K446/K447, K465/K466 (Ethanol for Charlotte and Wadesboro)





PRR_4859 Wrote:
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> Great image!! Roughly how many trains per day run
> on the line?

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Outstanding image!
Dan

Posted from iPhone

Great shot....the lighting is very good, how did you achieve that much light on the subject?

Asheville_G Wrote:
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> Scheduled:
>
> Q692 (Waycross to Russell)
> Q693 (Russell to Waycross)
> F769 (Kingsport to Spruce Pine turn)
>
> As Needed:
>
> N759, E759 (Coal for Plant Marshall/Terrell)
>
> N313, E313, N312, E312, N760, E760 (Coal for Brice
> from usually Bailey)
>
> Various other coal symbols
> U444, T444, T342, T478 (Coal for FEC, and
> Middleton). From time to time Wateree SC loads as
> well.
>
> K446/K447, K465/K466 (Ethanol for Charlotte and
> Wadesboro)

Add to this list loaded and empty grain trains to Shelby, NC, Monroe, NC and Aberdeen, NC.  Trains to/from these destinations don't always run the Clinchfield.  Sometimes they run via Richmond and the A Line, particularly the Monroe and Aberdeen trains. 

Great shot! Congrats on IOTD

GG

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Fantastic shot!

People not familiar with this area don't realize there isn't much flat land which makes this picture so spectacular. 

Very nice..!!