Eastern Railroad Discussion > Suffolk and Chesapeake VA railfanning

Are there any good areas to railfan around these areas? Anything you can view of Portlock yard?
Also what Freq are used. In the area ?

Garyv

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Check out the museum in Downtown Suffolk: ~ SEABOARD STATION RAILROAD MUSEUM - Home (suffolktrainstation.com) 

There is access to both ends of Portlock.

Portlock Road crosses all of the tracks at the west end of the yard (between the west end and Bridge 7).

You can get close to the east end, around South Norfolk, NS Jct, Carolina Jct. Multiple moves will go this way as wel towards Lamberts Point or NIT.

If you want to see the stacks accelerate out of town, head for Yadkin Road (mp 10.0) near the crossing of Galberry Road.

Suffolk affords both NS and CSX lines within a mile of each other, and the aforementioned former Seaboard depot is a nice play to chill if you know a CSX move is close (the NS is busier, but the surroundings are a bit…rougher).

Grady McKinley
Asheville, NC

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I second the recommendation to visit the former SAL station in Suffolk.  I was there in 2018 and it was worth the visit.  They have a nice HO Scale Model Railroad in the depot that includes a scratchbuilt version of the Station building itself.

Grady

Do you know the road at the east end ?



Asheville_G Wrote:
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> There is access to both ends of Portlock.
>
> Portlock Road crosses all of the tracks at the
> west end of the yard (between the west end and
> Bridge 7).
>
> You can get close to the east end, around South
> Norfolk, NS Jct, Carolina Jct. Multiple moves
> will go this way as wel towards Lamberts Point or
> NIT.
>
> If you want to see the stacks accelerate out of
> town, head for Yadkin Road (mp 10.0) near the
> crossing of Galberry Road.
>
> Suffolk affords both NS and CSX lines within a
> mile of each other, and the aforementioned former
> Seaboard depot is a nice play to chill if you know
> a CSX move is close (the NS is busier, but the
> surroundings are a bit…rougher).
>
> Grady McKinley
> Asheville, NC
>
> Posted from iPhone