[2h] The Austell Wye Part 1/2, NS East End and Atlanta North Districts, 05/21/2016 ©mbmars01

[@jleveille2]

Thanks for your videos I have breakfast watching your work instead of tv. I deeply appreciate your work I always look forward to your post

[@mbmars01]

Cool, great that I can even beat TV shows lol

[@hasooabas6784]

USA

[@4funJust4you]

You have caught two NS Conrail C40-8W units with P5 horns, NS 8319 and NS 8338. That's cool! They're my favorite in this video! NS 8323 is another Conrail C40-8W unit with a P5 horn, too.

[@mbmars01]

Cool, thanks!

[@paideuma]

Live in Mableton next to Austell. Love watching the trains pass by.

[@mbmars01]

Well, cool, that's one of the best spots in all Georgia.

[@Branddenthepinkgoldpeachfan]

12:27 *That Is Extremely Illegal And Very Dangerous Never Ever Stop On The Railroad Tracks*

[@colsanders4432]

I have located the spot you are filming from on Googlemaps. Your comments about the number of trains in half a day has really sparked my interest in that location. Since I live in SC, a trip to Austell is not out of the question. Maybe I'll see you there. I've been watching a lot of your videos, you do an excellent job!

[@mbmars01]

Austell is certainly a nice spot to visit as a railfan and Birmingham and Chattanooga aren't far away either. The entire triangle is very busy with rail traffic. Thanks! I'm glad you liked watching the videos :)

[@pgclift51]

Excellent video - with unbelievable daredevil drivers!

[@mbmars01]

Thanks! Well, it looks a bit more dramatic, because of the zoom and perspective.

[@wernersievers3153]

Hello mbmars 01. Good transport in picture and sound, with many Exciting scenes, and train together stel peeping.

[@mbmars01]

That's right. Lots of friction and strain noise in the curves!

[@CaptainJustice166]

Sweet catches my friend!!! 1117 on the 2nd train had a BEAST K5LLA! And great catches with 1074 and the Ex-Con's with P5's!

[@mbmars01]

Haha, that's right!

[@CaptainJustice166]

mbmars01 Yep! ;) Could you check me new video out when I finish uploading it in a few minutes? Thanks!

[@oldtown6240]

Great spot. That Imperial Sugar hopper really stands out.

[@philliplee980]

sweet catch of NS 7206 SD80MAC. awesome catch of the GE's and EMD's. cool NS, BNSF, CSX and KCS nice. cool great catch of the DPU's nice. sweet catch of the NS Heritage Unit 1074 the Lackawanna nice. cool horns on all of them.

[@mbmars01]

Thanks! I also love these horns.

[@philliplee980]

mbmars01 your welcome. cool.

[@davidbarnett9312]

A day at the wye! Good stuff and great catches, especially on the heritage unit. That's one busy wye. Hopefully you can revisit.

[@mbmars01]

Austell is busy and a good place to watch trains. However, for filming it's not optimal as spots are narrow and (car) traffic can be annoying. NS police is very active out there (because of the intermodal yard) and, strictly spoken, the wye itself is not accessible to railfans. I also have to say that there are often incidents with "railfans" who do all kinds of stupid things near the tracks.

[@davidbarnett9312]

I've been considering starting my own railfan experience. The BNSF runs through the farm, therefore I would be on my own property and up close and personal. A farm to market road splits the pastures so I can either film at the railroad crossing or I can go towards the back of one of the pastures and film.

[@MarylandAreaRailfan]

Great catches!

[@mbmars01]

Many thanks.

[@Nicola636128]

Great video!

[@mbmars01]

Thanks!

[@Branddenthepinkgoldpeachfan]

11:58 *NS 7027 Caught Fire In 2022 I Hope It Gets Repaired*

[@djheath7720]

OK. THANK'S ANYWAY. I WENT THEIR YESTERDAY AND I GOT THEIR AT 4PM AND LEFT AND 5PM AND NO TRAINS WENT BY. I WAS SCHOCKED DO TO THE IMMAN AND WHITAKER YARD NEARBY. SO I WENT TO THE IMMAN YARD GOT THEIR AT 5:30 PM AND TRAINS WERE GOING BOTH DIRECTIONS. HOPEFULLY NEXT TIME I GO I CAN GET AT LEAST 5 TRAINS AT THE AUSTELL WYE.

[@mbmars01]

Well, since there were some lines closed in the east and south because of the hurricane, traffic may have been exceptionally slow in the last few days.

[@markklinefelter9263]

Another place to go from Blue Ridge! Cool. What camera eqpt would you recc? I should have made videos of the double diamonds in Marion, OH when I lived in Ohio where north south routes were dominated by CSX and NS and the old east west Conrail line.

[@mbmars01]

Austell is a bit farther away than Dalton, but might be manageable as well. I use a Panasonic HC-V550 camcorder.

[@roberthale8407]

Interesting spot to watch trains.

[@mbmars01]

Absolutely. Rail-traffic wise one of the busiest sites in all Georgia.

[@carolynandreatta7871]

+mbmars0 bbhbbe

[@davidkinsey253]

noticed FEDEX' new logo...at least first I've seen of it. still curious about the chicken coop; how often does it receive trains of grain and is it a year-round operation? I marvel at the rail traffic in GA....topped off with Folkston. We don't have anything close to that here. Now for the kicker: how much trouble would it be to insert a google map of the area you're railfanning each time? Thank you.

[@mbmars01]

Which chicken coop do you mean? The feed mill in Comer, GA? As far as I know they work at the mill continuously. I don't know how many train loads per week they receive, maybe one or two? But there is also this local train A749 that "feeds" them and that runs on an almost daily basis I guess. I'm not living very close, so I really have no clear overview about their operations. Your idea to include a map is good - I've already thought about it by myself - but it costs extra time and I'm already very short of time anyway. Since my notes always contain the location, you can easily look it up, though.

[@thunderstormzlightning]

awesome great video

[@mbmars01]

Thank you!

[@KDubielak]

As you can see in the video the crossing gate is laning a little bit

[@larryrwendelljr4465]

I love the KCS locomotive colors, they are so neat looking. If you don't mind, I assume you are using a camera phone, how much did it cost and what brand, as i am in the market of looking to get one, and don't have much experience with them?

[@mbmars01]

+Larry R Wendell Jr It's not the camera of a phone that I use. It's the Panasonic camcorder HC-V550, which was about $350 when I bought it couple years ago.

[@stantaylor524]

mbmars01 thanks for sharing the camera you use as I wondered the same thing.

[@mbmars01]

Stan Taylor You're welcome!

[@bradley.reim22]

and all of those dash 8 are from conrail because of the horn csx c40-8w are different

[@djheath7720]

AWSOME VIDEO. WHAT TIME DO MOST TRAINS PAST BY THE AUSTEL WYE DAILY? LIKED.

[@mbmars01]

Thanks! There are so many trains that there's hardly any longer break if everything works well. Most action is in the morning and evening, though.

[@DTRProductions.]

2:43 he continued to blow when he just blew his horn at the crossing, so how is that black crosswalk on the tracks a railroad crossing

[@bradley.reim22]

12:00 CSX Equipment Defect Detector Engine Number Milepost 484

[@bradley.reim22]

are dash 8 now the dash 9 because there on alnmost every train in the 2 videos

[@georgezhang1543]

The Intermodal From The Birmingham, Al, Line Had Some TFM Containers

[@seiscat1]

And thick and fast they came at last, and more and more and more.....

[@mbmars01]

Haha, that's the normal rate there.

[@stantaylor524]

Great camera shots! I notice that you do a lot of fading in and out and overlapping shots. Is that a feature of your Panasonic camcorder? Or do you use special editing equipment to make that happen? I like those special effects.

[@mbmars01]

Thank you! All effects are done in the production process, but not while recording. I use iMovie as the video editing software. It offers some interesting features.

[@frankpierce2008]

looks like a storm coming

[@mbmars01]

Indeed!

[@georgezhang1543]

NS 54E With NS SD80MAC #7206 At 2:47

[@bradley.reim22]

you could ove hopped it at 15:58

[@KDubielak]

A horn show for you my man

[@mbmars01]

Yeah, sometimes they do it.

[@bradley.reim22]

c40-8w kinda sound like there sad