6/19/09 Elk Run and Crystal River Mine

Leaving out of Elk Run yard office with a crew and travelling about 6 miles to the Crystal River mine. As we pull in a drag of empties pass on the main heading to the yard office.

6/19/09 381 and an Empty Dickinson Yard

Never seen the yard as empty as it was today.

NS 381 6/17/09

Left Dickinson at 8:30 AM with 11 cars and NS 9978 D9-40CW in the lead.

Haunted Railroad Crossing In Texas

I have heard of this place many times but this is the first time I have seen it in action. I dont normally put my weird hobbies over here on the railroad blog but this one is indirectly related to the rairoad. Here is what is posted in the comment section of this poster.

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This video was recorded on October 20, 2008 in San Antonio, Texas. We heard the stories about these railraod tracks located on Shane Road where a train struck a school bus during the 1940s and killed the bus driver and all children on the bus.

We decided to do some investigation on our on, and to our amazement we actually found some shocking evidence. The car did indeed go up the hill and over the tracks with the ignition turned off even. We even tried it with the car going backwards and it still worked. We even noticed very apparent fingerprints on the trunk of the car after pouring baby powder on it and going over the tracks. We even caught some pretty clear EVP's towards the end of the video right before we left.

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Here is the video.

6/10/09 NS 381 and Dog Incident

Left Dickinson yard at 8:30 am with 24 cars and a NS 9095 in the lead. I left the video run a bit longer after the train had passed to show the conductor restoring the switches. Watch as he is throwing the main line switch as a dog comes out on him. More bark than bite,as the owner says, but still gives an example of what the crews have to endure out on the road.

June 9, 2009 Weed Sprayer Train and Coal Train

Here is 2 videos of the W047 weed sprayer train as it backs out onto the main then leaves Handley for Huntington.





This is a coal train passing through Chelyan. If I had left the camera running I would have caught the sprayer about 2 minutes later.As it was I had gone into a store to get a soda when the sprayer came by.

6/8/2009

East and westbound trains plus H707 work train engine 2496 SD50 at South Charleston yard.

H872 at Alum Creek