A 1990 afternoon of train watching at Spartanburg, SC.

An afternoon catching trains around the Amtrak Station on Magnolia Street. Video starts out with combo train 221 & 173 passing the station. Next, a GP30 led work train arrives at the station to tie down on one of the side tracks. Those old gons next to the crane appeared to be a tad bit overloaded. Then, I saw a CSX empty hopper train pass behind the station with a Conrail C36-7. So, I headed over to the CSX yard office to catch it while stopped for a crew change. Next, back to Magnolia Street for NS train 171 coming back from Columbia with some GP50's and a GP38AC for power. Also had a bay window cab on the rear, notice the GP30 led work train in the background; crew member was eating a watermelon while waiting on a taxi. Final scenes show a nice meet at Magnolia Street between 152 (NS 6562) and 119, with a GP30 in 119's consist and a mid-train SD50 (6515) on 152. Hope you enjoyed the look back at a typical afternoon of Spartanburg action for me back then...
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[@TheBraniffTaylor]

I can almost smell the woodchips and diesel!!!! Ahh the good old days of railroading in the SE...and of course the icing on the cake...seeing SOUTHERN locos!

[@larrymcneil8038]

Wow dpu back in 1990 was that remote controlled

[@mkl62]

Have to wonder what sort of effect that Florence will have on train traffic in this area.

[@SOU5111]

Those are for crossties. They allowed the track department to push the ties out the opening at the bottom of the car for distributing the ties from a slow moving MOW train.

[@northgacub]

I guess the locotrol master GP50's kept the equipment installed longer than originally thought. It was supposedly removed in 1988 from them from a book I have.

[@SJRailroader31]

Come to South Jersey. Youll see so many highhoods you will be sick of them. lol

[@TheRancher250]

Wow!!! That may be the best ten minutes on KZbin. Awesome video.

[@RailfanTubeNetwork]

AWESOME! I was born in 1990 so I didn't have long to see all those high hoods and long hood forward locomotives before the started switching to wide cabs.

[@bradley.reim22]

never have i seen those BN piggybacks on ns trains before especially on yt

[@Cristianoefc]

One of the best videos of the 90's I ever saw! Excellent Greg!

[@SOU5111]

Thank you very much, Cris! Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@SOU5111]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching & commenting!

[@bradley.reim22]

never have i seen cabooses before the end of the train

[@bradley.reim22]

so weird that there are no ditch lights on these trains

[@ClinchValleySD40]

Excellent video, thanks for posting.

[@SOU5111]

Yeah for real, Braniff! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@SOU5111]

Thanks! Appreciate that, glad you enjoyed it!

[@southern7002x]

Absolutely FANTASTIC video Greg!

[@SOU5111]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@SOU5111]

Thank you! Really do appreciate that!

[@Jleed989]

Notice no graffiti. Love it!

[@tropicalties3806]

What are those cars at the 8:25 mark?

[@SOU5111]

Ahead of the BN boxcar? Those were special built crosstie cars. Made from old flatcars that had a superstructure added with a slot at the bottom, where the crossties would be unloaded as the car was moved down the right of way.

[@tropicalties3806]

@@SOU5111 Oh wow. Thats interesting. Thank you for the response.

[@mpalm1990]

What cars are those at 8:22?

[@SOU5111]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mariaharris9314]

I was born in 2009

[@mariaharris9314]

When where you were born?

[@SOU5111]

Thanks!

[@LiamManley2003]

this is from like 1989 to me because i saw a conrail engine in this video

[@MichiganRailProductions]

Not sure what you mean... Conrail existed until 1999, so it would be possible to see them in 1990 as foreign power.

[@jonbrown5054]

Shades of things to come