Georgia Central Railway Saves the Day

[@RailsOfTheMidwest]

I love watching DIB videos because not only do you get great train footage,but you get a history lesson about the location it’s being filmed and what kind of locomotive it is, it’s specifications, and it’s backstory. Love your videos keep up the great work!

[@slr_393p]

same!

[@jaffian]

Came to watch trains, learned about onions, excellent as always

[@thomasmackowiak]

Nice video documentation of this move of a double stack train on the Georgia Central Railroad. And thank you for your narration on this video of all of the historical facts regarding this railroad.

[@ohioandnortheastern]

Georgia Central actually had an intermodal train L782 back on 5-25-2014. it was pulled by GC 3938 and 3 other u23b a sluh and GC 1706

[@GARails]

Yeah I was gonna say, they had often intermodal service with NS and GC sharing the service, but G&W started charging the shipper too much money to haul on the GC or something so that’s how intermodal was cut from the GC and the port relied on NS from there on out

[@barefoot3662]

Thank you for your video I have never seen sd33s before thank you for posting and God bless you

[@jakebray561]

The horn on the lead unit sounds pitiful!! great video thank you for all the hard work!

[@nedj10]

Thank you Georgia Central for demonsrtating the tracks to connect Macon (and there by) Atlanta to Savannah still very much exist. Now lets get some track upgrades done and get Amtrak's Charger units finally connecting Georgia's three largest cities like they should have been doing since their inception.

[@trainzguy2472]

Only thing I could wish for more would be those black and white U23B's hauling this!

[@robk1310]

Wow!!! At the 24:50 mark you see those beautiful orange locos rocking and rolling over a stretch of very bad track. Hope they fix that. I love the corporate paint scheme of the G&W. It’s the paint scheme of the Genesee and Wyoming. The company owns a bunch of short lines, and has a common paint scheme, while keeping the local short line names. A brilliant Branding and Marketing strategy. They create a consistent corporate look while preserving the local nostalgic name. A business case study should be written about them and taught in business schools, like Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management.

[@clammodore2557]

To be fair, it is pretty good track for GWI standards...

[@robk1310]

@@clammodore2557 LOL 😂

[@crazyman762]

The Norfolk Southern on 725 is crooked! Thanks for the new video.

[@paullindberg9230]

I know Vidalia grows the sweetest oniions ever!!

[@TheresaBrown-dc5dt]

They make the best homemade onion rings

[@saxonaudio]

NS: GC your my hero. GC: ain’t nothing to it NS.

[@Trains-With-Shane]

lol @ 31:10 those guys trying to pull that zero turn mower out of the mud, lol.

[@artelwell8027]

I always ♥ your train videos and their educational values are over the top. Thank you for all your wonderful videos 😉👍

[@robk1310]

You should also check out Danny Harmon’s train channel, Distant Signal Productions. His voice is mesmerizing and his narrations are fun and educational.

[@artelwell8027]

@@robk1310 thanks buddy, I am a photographer who absolutely loves trains.

[@scotabot7826]

I bet it took a hour for that train to get through a crossing, and it's a miracle it didn't derail. Ha Ha...

[@bradfordthompson8326]

Neat VIDEOS...be exciting if you had filmed the top of rail before and after the train

[@scrbjsbro]

Excellent, Drayton!

[@martinross5521]

Thank you DIB for this interesting video; great to see so many units working hard to overcome the problem of the flooded line

[@v1rotait23]

A very nicely shot and produced video. Well done and nice some some 4 axle Geeps hauling the big stuff!

[@CoalChrome]

ah hah! I found one of the SD70 rebuilds! 1830 used to be a standard SD70

[@paullindberg9230]

I haveben a fan of allyourn productions. Your. descriptions. ; right. down to. the trip & and. the details. not missing a anything to it. all! thanks to all. you do!

[@CrossbuckProductions]

Beautifully documented!

[@zachariassiefker9249]

Nice catches! I like the classic EMD locomotives, the Norfolk Southern Horse Head paint scheme, the Genesee & Wyoming paint scheme a lot! Really nice!

[@Madonsteamrailways]

A good educational film of trains, showing the locomotives and stock on that particular railroad.

[@theoriginaldashriprock]

Oh wow can the Heart of Georgia and Georgia Central locomotives not move any faster than that? I dozed off a couple of times watching that video. LOL

[@Real_Jtizzle]

Speed restrictions due to how poor certain sections of track are

[@theoriginaldashriprock]

@@Real_Jtizzle yeah, I get that. My comment was more about the video itself than anything.

[@Army_Outdoors_88N]

Amazing video Drayton. This was so awesome to capture some epic railroad history!!

[@fishwithsj]

Great footage and information as always. Really dug the yard work footage.

[@Manwholikestrains]

I always call dibs in my friend group to be the first one to watch the new DIB video

[@bradfordthompson8326]

Nice Video Thank you for bring us all along ..Hope you make more like this Let's hope That DELAY BLOCK SET a neat example of what class 1 Railways should be doing on their Railway......We love it when little Railways "Say hey wecan do ut".....$$$$$$'d

[@TroublesomeSlateTruck]

Good Work With The Video.

[@Clrtixx]

A little know fact sometimes they name their engines that they favorite or be for a special event

[@wheeling827]

Nice! I caught my first train from a railroad owned by G&W the other week, and it was the Georgia Central! We were on vacation in Savannah. Thanks though! Great video!

[@rushylvania.northern]

Top 10 things you'll probably never see in 50 or so years

[@randyjacobs9489]

Beautiful ! I would by O Scale locos of those for sure! Lionel? Listen!

[@realtoytrains]

Hey Randy!!

[@Eddy63]

Excellent presentation Dray ... Very enjoyable ...

[@TylersNeighborhoodGarage]

I'm assuming that the rough track around Ripley will be next up for rehab. In the days when Seaboard owned this line and the line from Savannah west to Montgomery, they invested pretty heavily into the infrastructure. The dead-end section from Richland west to Marht, AL has a significant portion of concrete ties. This was all because Seaboard handled a lot of interchange traffic from Illinois Central Gulf at Montgomery until ICG pulled the plug on the Tuscaloosa-Montgomery line.

[@georgiacentralfan]

Downtown Vidalia has a few concrete ties still.

[@TylersNeighborhoodGarage]

@@georgiacentralfan That's awesome. There's a few miles of the far west end left in Montgomery and it's crazy seeing nice heavy rail sitting on ties and ballast that hasn't been regularly maintained in 30 years.

[@Vincent-ow9lj]

Excellent camera work, editing and narration.

[@carstrainsandcrossings8639]

What is with that Leslie RS3L sounds more like a RS2L lol

[@csxchicagoline5523]

Great video! So much great information! Thanks for sharing!

[@rjl110919581]

thank you share a great detailed video

[@jamesdouglas584]

again, a splindid video..you need to capture the thunder between Montgomery and Mobile.

[@katesmithmyer6677]

Good video

[@bradfordthompson8326]

As usual you might have inspired Port Of Bellingham Washington state to reopen up 2 miles of Ex Milwaukee Railway TRACKAGE for a Washington DOT TRANSLOADS FACILITIES......LETS HOPE Thank you for showing us how this could work in Washington state 😀😉😄

[@Nicola636128]

Excellent video!

[@paullindberg9230]

The. 1999. Dodge pickup is ;The same is mine. ! I d. guess. it belongs two. the. lady. Railfanners Again: you. hit the .nail. on. the head as alyas

[@taslimchoudhary1253]

Fantastic shot ,🎄🎄🇮🇳

[@billchapel7057]

Their is a short line RR in Fort Wayne that has the same paint sceam as the Georgia RR you just did here, it is called the Chicago Fort Wayne & Eastern RR, could find out what and where they hall freight, i have never seen those locomotives pulling a train any where around Fort Wayne.

[@CheeseheadMedia]

The CFE is part of the Genessee and Wyoming family of railroads. Here is their webpage www.gwrr.com/railroads/north_america/chicago_ft_wayne_eastern_railroad#m_tab-one-panel

[@LetsGoChaseThatTrain]

Very good.

[@scr2392]

If only the horn didn’t sound like cats being pulled behind a car the train would be good looking and sounding beceides the old emd v16 sound

[@55tmilam]

Awesome video!

[@jasonking2943]

Those ole gals got a good work out

[@ekrwy2]

By the way, great job! For one of your next videos, see if you can get the voice of Pentrex. That would be awesome!

[@c23onrails]

I’m just surprised a couplet sent break

[@LetsGoChaseThatTrain]

Interesting green stripe scheme.

[@eltoro6688]

G&W Needs to kill that Horn and just send the crews out on the front porch to yell at the crossings!!! ;-P

[@alantewood4209]

lol that horn needs to go

[@terrywallace4109]

I would have liked it even more if it wasn't for the blasted commercials!

[@bjackson30303]

Not understanding the reason for the power swap at Lyons.

[@georgettedebuhr2660]

I just❤️this video. Excellent documentary. And the horn at 106:39 just kills it. That type always gives me goose bumps. And that guy crossing the tracks just before the train is an idiot. Good way to commit suicide. And we had 26.8 inches of snow in Easton Pennsylvania. Been a very long time since we had that. Have a nice day and stay safe😊

[@justkiddin08]

Good video!!

[@AtTheTowerYT]

I love the video, and live just north of their line. But this isn't the first intermodal, just the first under G&W's running of the road.

[@jeffreykupetz4930]

As everyone else has stated. I too love your videos. I am new to railfanning and you've taught me so much. I have a question though. Wouldn't it make more sense to distribute that power? Like 1 in the middle 1 in the rear and 2 leading.

[@georgiacentralfan]

Most shortlines can't do that because their engines aren't set up for that.

[@jeffreykupetz4930]

Oh that makes sense. Thanks for the reply!

[@ryankruchowski1951]

Could Genesse and Wyoming be the next consolidated rail network (Conrail)?

[@Real_Jtizzle]

I would say it’s possible but unlikely. It would be hard to get long distance routes dominated by csx and ns. And if they did the cost of upgrading all these 20th century lines would be ungodly. They might be able to split into regional groups like GC,HoG,GSWR, and acquiring disused lines like the former Central of Georgia from ns forming one new railroad.

[@slr_393p]

17:28 2130 Need's a new horn

[@carstrainsandcrossings8639]

No it doesn’t it just needs to be fixed that is a Leslie RS3L most of them on class one railroads including Norfolk Southern are gone so he’s lucky that he got one

[@ChamplainDivision]

Last I knew Georgia Central and Heart of Georgia were collaborating on Intermodal Trains from Savannah to Cordele's 'Inland Port" facility. I did notice awhile back looking on Google Earth that a track accessing same looked to be under construction. Did they take over the traffic or has the port gone bust?

[@georgiacentralfan]

Yes. HOG and GC jointly ran the internal between Cordele and Savannah between 2011 and 2017.

[@ChamplainDivision]

So, what happened to end the service?

[@somethingsomeonesaid6455]

watching the rail flex at 26:04 is a bit scary.

[@rushylvania.northern]

True I don't want to mess with that

[@MuzafferZara]

👏

[@clementhuppe227]

salutation à tout les conducteurs de train de marchandise

[@alantewood4209]

how fast was it going in dublin ga because i live in dublin ga and it going 25-35

[@CoalChrome]

6213 see s to be a little bent there at the front

[@Tony-1950]

👍👍

[@chrisbaynes6554]

Why switch out 4 ,for 4 why didn't the first 4 pack just didn't take it all the way to Savannah?

[@Kayushi]

Sorry for the late reply, but they swapped out the power for a power balancing move. They needed the power in Lyons so they could run their other road trains. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to those who chased it either since they turned around and drug another train from Savannah - Macon after they arrived but…

[@pluey200]

29:20 Should’ve gotten the shot with that 45° crossbuck. Those are very very rare these days

[@anthonyventi362]

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[@mikelowery5741]

How the hell did they allow a train that’s 6400 ton to run on a track that rough?!

[@RailsOfTheMidwest]

16:00 where’s the helicopter?

[@RailsOfTheMidwest]

@Wesley Maxfield lol I know

[@woodalexander]

Love the videos, but something is wonky. This says premiered tonight, but I watched it on Friday. And the beginning part was posted in another video?

[@bobertbobert6442]

Anybody here?

[@PGHammer21A]

Precision Scheduled Railroading is the freight-rail version of just-in-time logistics - and is far from unique to Norfolk Southern.

[@brianrichard9608]

BRIAN BOKCE I found your heritage in the Heartland on my Instagram I added to it 2 mi list that would be awesome if you can Postmates awesome train videos

[@appleman275]

Why is the intermodal rare?

[@Jamersonde]

Rare on the Georgia Central.

[@eltoro6688]

yup, Shortline rare.

[@railfanningthesoutheast8318]

because it is on a shortline

[@robertdean9392]

Another re-run. Already seen Georgia Central save the day. New content needed. C-YA

[@KnoxvilleRailfanProductions]

Ok Boomer

[@DelayInBlockProductions]

Robert, you’re more than welcome to watch other videos on KZbin.

[@KnoxvilleRailfanProductions]

​@@nicholashufnagel4224 Its because he found errors and has fixed them so that they are correct aka Making his videos better

[@zxatl2003]

It wasn't a re-run for me. It was my first time seeing it !

[@realtoytrains]

Wow I thoroughly enjoyed this! Robert Dean how’s your content you’ve been putting out? 👀

[@patrickwamsley3284]

Man is that an ugly horn. Only thing I'd say is worse is the horns they put on locomotives in India.

[@zxatl2003]

You spoke the truth there !!!

[@loucosmotivaferromodelismo6560]

👍😃👍

[@katesmithmyer6677]

Csx

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