Great catches awesome chase and nice video

@03:24 I stopped watching. Don't fast forward the film to speed up the cars going by, dang that sucks. Some of us want to see the whole train and count the cars. 👎👎

Great catch on 1899 Nathan

That’s a lot of coal.👍

Iowa Interstate Railroad is a Absolutely Amazing & Fascinating Railroad in Iowa and I love ❤️ The IAIS Paint Scheme 🎨 Because it looks Absolutely beautiful 😍

So hot!

Great Video

What is the large building across the river from which sons store

And that’s with the speed capped at 59 mph, when the cap is removed and we can restore 75 mph operations on all lines we’ll be leaving cars in the dust.

I changed a rad fan on 1715 last night in Huntington

That’s the Silver Line

Would love for Mike H to give us his perspective on the disaster, re-building the r.o.y, the area damage plus any progress being made getting back to some sort of normal again.

Where is this

I love the Murphy Branch. My grandfather hauled woodchips to the mill. The shutdown of the Canton Paper Mill has hurt everyone. I talked to a former mill employee, and he lost his whole career. Many generations of his family built their careers and lives on the mill. I look around Western North Carolina today and see that all the industry is gone, everything the early settlers worked for, gone. Once prosperous towns, crippling. Plant workers, truck drivers, railroad men, lumberjacks, wood chip mill workers, maintenance workers, and many others are suffering. Without the paper mill, they can't sustain themselves or their families. Them and their families will have to leave the mountains to find new jobs. Canton is crippling, thousands of hard working men and women lost their career, and jobs, small businesses are dying, families are leaving, the economy is terrible, blue ridge southern is in devastated, and the ripple effect from the shutdown is hurting people and the economy beyond Western North Carolina. All because of false claims that environmentalists made to get the mill shut down. They claimed it was polluting the water and air with smoke and chemicals. As someone living in Western North Carolina, I tell you that's not true. The "Smoke" that was supposedly polluting the air was actually steam. The steam didn't contain chemicals. The only exception is steam with blue tint. I never saw the mill doing that. I went to Canton, and the air was clean, and the water was fresh, even downstream of the mill. The environmentalists lied and plotted and schemed and got the mill shut down. Then, they said, "This shutdown is a new beginning. Our river will bring tourists and save Canton. " All the river did hurt the town even more. It swept through taking part of the town with it. Canton is truly an abandoned ghost town. The only way to fix it is to reopen the paper mill. R.I.P. Canton NC 1889-2023 Killed by Environmentalists.😢

God Bless the miners

Hi blue ridge rail fan just like you I live in WNC specifically Blowing Rock where you can find Tweetsie and this weekend I am planning to catch some trains and am willing to drive an hour to the nearest crossing but I would like to know what are your favorite rail fanning spots with frequent trains near me thanks for reading

Im there now reloading. (Trucker) Devastating damage. 😥😥😥

I watch them switching quite a bit while waiting to get unloaded at Associated

Very nice video, LIKE .

Fantastic RS3L

First time watcher, great job explaining and details for the basic railfan. Thanks for your work.

A great looking video. Crisp images. Steady shots. Locators. Very nice.

Cool video, thanks

I was born in va but moved to mt when very young and wish I could see these trains in real life

Continue prayers for all of the victims of Hurricane Helene in the Blue Ridge area. Helene did a lot damage here in Florida but it’s nothing compared to what Tennessee and North Carolina suffered. 🙏🙏🙏

Excellent 😊

I cry and pray everyday for everyone there! I was born in Red Hill and moving back In spring 2025

Miss this so much!

The marker lights look awesome on this ex-CR SD60 widecab. Sweet RS3L horn. Great video.

Car vs 7000 Series train

First off... great vids!! I just stumbled upon your channel today and like your work. "The driver backed up and then decided to go to sleep" I just retired a week ago after 34 years of Over The Road driving and I just have to say NONE OF THIS SURPRISES ME!!! As a motorist on the American highways, you should be VERY AFRAID anytime you are near an American truck driver. The level of professionalism, skill, ability and more importantly COMMON SENSE is GONE in the industry. I have spent the last 10+ years not sleeping soundly because I have to be constantly aware and worried about one of these idiots backing into me at a truckstop, taking out the front of my truck and then fleeing like a thief in the night. I spend every waking hour discouraging anyone that mentions the industry from becoming a driver. The truly sad part is... THIS MORON will continue to drive and continue to make poor decisions.

Moved to tears! Beautiful song.

So basically I would classify the blue ridge sub OOS for while

So frustrating that such a huge operation can not be upgraded and remain open. Talk about a strategic location in the US!

we get ex. Conrail geeps and almost all of em have RS3Ls except for the GP38HH’s we get

10:12 Isn’t that the RIP track where Frank and Will pull 1206 in before 777 collides with their last boxcar?

God Bless, one and all ,to all the volunteers, contractors, enjoyed the Video, and the stories 😢

Norfolk Southern RS3L

Epic train horn

Thank you for recording/posting this. Im sorry it took me so long to find it! I've operated on this line since 1996. Still working the Asheville District of NS. Our mountain is in shambles due to Helene. Not sure yet what the future holds.

Great video dude! You should make a video of the still operating HG Line in Gastonia!

A shame their contractors are botching the job so horribly. Sat and watched them hauling off a buddies property today here in Unaka Springs. Their haste is going to cost the taxpayers hundreds of millions, while simultaneously building an unsafe railbed for the engineers who have to run that line. Federal lawsuits, fines and more on the way.

Very interesting 🤔 Thanks 👍

Fantastic video: thanks

Got the southern lokomotiv in the lead

Beautiful song❤ Thank you for sharing this video!

Why isn't the State of North Carolina helping these poor people out ??

Do you have any g12 parts? Specifically a truck for an engine. My father picked up a couple g12 engines and he's short one truck. Also always in the lookout for more track,cars, and locomotives

That area is closed off for repairs.