Eastern Railroad Discussion > Dashing through the snow, in 4 EMDs and a GE…

...over the hills we go, chicken feed is on the way.  Another loaded grain train in the endless stream of grain head toward one of the two huge feed mills in Candor NC that feed over 7 million chickens a day.  Train is seen just west of Seven Lakes NC on the ACWR Sandhills Sub, at 1235 Saturday January 31, 2026.   While our neighbors east, west, and south of us already have several inches on snow on the ground, the typical "dry slot" winter storms often develop over the Sandhills was in full effect overnight and this morning, and will limit our accumulation to just a few inches this afternoon and tonight. 

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An hour and a half earlier, and before the snow started flying, the 3 ACWR EMDs rumbled past the house with 11 empty soybean meal cars.  The empties where stashed in Summit Siding, then the power went light down the hill to the yard to fetch the inbound CSX grain train. 

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Thanks for the update and videos.  I've been wondering how weather conditions were on the ACWR today.  If the snow isn't so great there, how is the wind, as that is half the story?  I had the Weather Channel on TV a short while ago, and Jim Cantore was reporting live in a pretty wild storm from Duck, NC, on the Outer Banks.  Meanwhile, Jordan Steele was in comparably calmer Myrtle Beach.  When my late aunt and uncle lived in New Bern during their retirement years, they hardly ever got any snow.

Jeff Gast
Greenwood, Indiana     

Outer Banks where Cantore is at, is basically getting a weak Cat 1 hurricane with temperatures in the 20s.  Myrtle Beach is south of the eye of the low so just getting snow.  I'm 110 miles due northwest of Myrtle Beach, or 150 miles due west of the south end of the Outer Banks, in the Sandhills. The Sandhills form the barrier between the Coastal Plain and the Piedmont, and typically our weather is more temperate, coastal like. We can go 3-4 years without seeing snow. But it's not unheard of obviously. I'm from Indiana so I don't think it's bad - dry, fluffy snow, got this much between time train was filmed and 5pm when pic taken. Probably got another inch since, my guess is 2-3 more overnight. Not much wind to speak of 5-10 sustained, every so often a big gust approaching 40.  No one knows how to drive down here, so it sucks on the roads. And I doubt you could find a gallon of milk or loaf of bread anywhere in county.  

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