COAL COUNTRY Railfanning!! Heavy CSX Trains in the C&O Coal Town of Thurmond, WV!!

[@deathvalley1592]

NICE TO SEE A TRIPOD BEING USED. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@Trains21]

Good stuff.. You've captured a lot of action in the West Va. hills.. I've been close to Thurmond but never actually in it.

[@RiverLineProductions]

Thanks! Yeah I saw a whole lot more than I had expected too... I was hoping for five trains but luck was on my side I guess!

[@michaelbragg6903]

Love Thurmond! I go there a lot. My grandfather worked for the C & O out of Thurmond and his photo is in the depot and in one of the downtown buildings.

[@Jackal7783]

You should go back and do more. Very cool place to railfan

[@2666loco]

Nice video. Thanks. I never saw many trains around Thurmond and Hawk's Nest on several visits.

[@jamesweidman7462]

Beautiful country with the green hills and CSX passing thru

[@leroyvandenoever242]

Fantastic, need to go farther north.

[@iusetano]

Awesome!!!!! Excellent video.

[@RiverLineProductions]

Thanks!!

[@TZrailfaning]

Awesome!

[@NW475]

That's the most action I've seen in a video from Thurmond in a while. Nice to see coal trains still running there, but it's a far cry from 5 years ago.

[@RiverLineProductions]

Yeah, I was impressed by the action there as I too watched videos on YT before heading there, and there were rarely more than say 5 trains per video. You're right though... a lot less traffic than say 2014 when oil and intermodal (in addition to more coal) was running this line

[@NW475]

Q135 and Q136 were the two intermodal trains that used to run on that line. They were re-routed in 2017 to instead run on the CSX Sand Patch Grade line (via Pittsburgh, Cumberland, and Harpers Ferry). CSX wanted to run these trains on higher-capacity (aka, double-stack instead of single stack). The New River Subdivision isn't suitable for double-stack trains.

[@RiverLineProductions]

@@NW475 Yeah those symbols sound familiar. I think they were rerouted once the new Virginia Street Tunnel was completed, therefore, as you said, enabling them to run doublestacks over that route. I'm hoping the New Carolina Connector Intermodal Hub and the expansion of the port in Norfolk will create a reason for CSX to invest in this line to make it doublestack capable. If not, who knows what will happen once coal traffic dies down further

[@dknowles60]

@@RiverLineProductions they dont need it. Csx has it taken care throught cumberlamd ma

[@jameswolf195]

Wow, great action with beautiful scenery. What more could I ask!!!!

[@RiverLineProductions]

Thanks! Thurmond really has it all... When the train comes through the valley and the horn echos through the mountains, its a scene like no other!

[@2666loco]

You could ask for CO 1309 2-6-6-2 running up New River Gorge!

[@journeythroughtherails5294]

The most Famous Freight Railway every single Railfan likes! CSX!

[@redbarnz]

I understand that R. Corman now handles that branch line across the river to the mines.

[@johnstafford4304]

Very nice video. Not many people get to see down the branch, me included. But, two questions. Why didn't the first set that brought the empties off the branch, round around the fifteen cars and pull back to base? Also 10+ miles hanging on that ladder going backwards could be a pain. Do they have like a safety harness that they attach to the ladder to keep him from slipping off?

[@RiverLineProductions]

Thanks! I am not sure why they didn't run the locomotives around the train. My only guess would be that there was a track maintainer looking for a lengthy window to work on a switch, and the run around would have delayed him an hour as the local would have had to wait for the G757 Grain train before running around the train. However, there could have been a very different reason for it that I have no idea about.

[@RailFanRob]

great footage...thanks for sharing!

[@davidvanschaick5565]

Good Stuff !

[@3006USMC]

@23:52 was that a stall ? Sounded like it was still in Fwd notch quite a bit!

[@GMEMD_SD40-2]

Excellent Video...well done!

[@AndreiTupolev]

1:00 I like the flypast by the ducks.

[@FrehleyFan3988]

So trainz a new era wasnt lying....

[@christopherdibble5872]

The engineer's don't wave from the trains anymore, not like they did back in 1954.

[@Lakeside_Rail_Productions]

Any reason why the crossing flashers don't have bells?

[@lloydgrisham8821]

Great video! Really enjoyed it. Please give a little more time to read the captions. Thanks

[@RiverLineProductions]

Thanks! Yeah, the captions were pretty fast in this video and I apologize for that... usually I remember to lengthen the longer ones but I guess it just slipped my mind on this video!

[@mistervacation23]

Hey kids lets see if we can get by this train by crossing the tracks

[@RiverLineProductions]

Guess they didn't see the warnings that the track is active! :/

[@AndreiTupolev]

I love that "Weight limit 10 tons". :-/

[@mark_wooley001]

Awesome CSX & RJC video 👍👍 ...

[@RiverLineProductions]

david pinewhistle Thanks!!

[@spacecalander]

Is the weight limit on bridge for cars? Cause 400 tons of Locomotives were rolling on it :) Well more than if they were AHs.

[@RiverLineProductions]

Yup, for cars. I thought it was a fun/cool shot to have the "10 tons" sign with a GEVO in the background!

[@bsauerteig]

Over how many days was your filming?

[@nelsonchapple3943]

how many trains a day through there?

[@RiverLineProductions]

There are only 2 scheduled road manifest freights- H750 and H751. The rest of the traffic has no schedule, meaning it can show up (or not) at any time. However, lots of coal, grain, and chemical trains use the line daily so you should definitely get at least 5-6 in daylight on a slow day, and maybe up to 13-14 on a busy day

[@irvinklugh8858]

LOVE IT

[@danielcalderon2649]

Que manera de llevar carros en cayados .A saltos .Potencial para desrielo.

[@AndrewEgerer]

Are those solar panels on the sides of those ballast cars?

[@RiverLineProductions]

I believe in some form, yes. They're used for GPS tracking so when the trains dump ballast they don't dump on the crossings

[@cavalierliberty6838]

@@RiverLineProductions they are to maintain electricity because the dumpers are battery powered.

[@apply3stepproduction903]

Men how you get you ID Thing That's say Like the CSX An NS Part

[@RiverLineProductions]

I edit the train symbol banners using bannersnack.com

[@apply3stepproduction903]

@@RiverLineProductions okay Sweet

[@Railfan9743]

Nice Video!

[@sanddabz5635]

What is a "New River Subdivision" exactly?

[@manueljdaskalos]

2000-2500 sq ft houses on 1/3 acre plots of land! 😂 But really, the old C& O main line was organized into divisions and subdivisions, for control purposes. The old New River Subdivision ran from Hinton, WV to Handley (near Montgomery), WV. It may still be broken down that way, I’m not sure.

[@carletoncandis635]

A semaphore 20:00

[@WestVirginiaRailfan]

Carleton Candis yep, a railroad enthusiast donated it from his personal collection a few years ago.

[@stevejensen3294]

Sick

[@heavydutyrepair64]

CSX transportation

[@watchyMCFCwatchy]

What's with those annoying bells? If you can hear the fog horn (that would wake the dead) from the locomotive why do you need the bell?

[@christopherlaing7338]

Dude, we're not speed readers, kindly leave the writings up for a few more seconds so we don't have to keep stopping the video to read them through.

[@rico27511]

Another potentially good video ruined by annoying shutter clicks.

[@RiverLineProductions]

Ight bud

[@RiverLineProductions]

Incel commenters be like

[@stevejensen3294]

Is there any chicks out there who like to do this stuff? Hello?