Early CSX at Waycross, GA (1988)

[@djbev]

My dad was an engineer for many years with CSX (and ACL) and I can almost say he was in the first shot, even if he wasn't I know he traveled those tracks many times. He would go to High Springs, FL and Thomasville, GA and other places I am sure. I used to love saying my daddy drives a train. He passed away in 2015. He and his brothers worked at the railroad. He was the president of the BLE (Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) and I remember the family gatherings we would have at Laura S. Walker state park. I miss my dad, but every time I see a train and hear that horn I smile and he lives again even if only in my memories.

[@wmuzeke]

I'm sorry you lost him. Thanks for sharing and that is amazing!

[@seaboardsystem8804]

hope that he did tell you some storyes?

[@nicholasmedovich8691]

@@wmuzeke some of these 30-7 and 30 and 33cs were in terrible collisions from what I heard over the years.

[@anb7408]

Nice to see those B36s doing what they were originally bought for……pulling intermodals!

[@OwnedBucketTheBucketMan]

How am I only finding this now? This is so cool!

[@zachariassiefker9249]

Nice video! Love the old school CSX!

[@wmuzeke]

Thanks!

[@MrMax-kq3ps]

Have anymore stuff from waycross?

[@wmuzeke]

This is pretty much it.

[@jmream2618]

wmuzeke do they still run trains through city of way cross

[@wmuzeke]

Yes, but quite differently from what you see in this video.

[@mrserious55]

cabooses and no ditch lights...awesome stuff

[@garycarter4297]

He enjoyed watching Gunsmoke on television and tinkering with lawnmowers.

[@railfanlynx]

how did, of all things a GT caboose get on early CSX.

[@eugenekleis8592]

Love the kla5 and leslie5 horns

[@markquiswest6607]

I The old Chessie System, and Seaboard Air Coastline Trains.

[@tommythomason6187]

Waycross town square so beautiful and quintessentially American. A busy place for CSX.

[@Nethanel773]

Sounds like LaGrange, KY or Irondale, AL. Both are old railroad towns where business built up along tracks. When you visit those towns, they got the old time Americana look going. Lots of small towns have done their own kind of gentrifying to make them prettier. The kind of places you want to stop off the road for small town / family business shopping and eating. Enjoyable all the more if you're doing some railfanning. LaGrange especially, as they have street running.

[@ChadsRailfanExperience]

Man, that poor Chessie SD35 in the opening.. She took a whoopin. Oh man, and the SD40

[@eugenekleis8592]

Leaving rice train yard

[@davidstewart3337]

Oh the memories of back then, better times and better people

[@fredpohl5202]

awesome

[@xCharjx]

Love those Leslies!

[@nicholasmedovich8691]

Didn’t I hear 3245 and 7009 were scrapped via 1985-88ish??

[@luv2fly452]

Great video of the old days! Strange to see how many things have changed in Waycross Rice Yard and CSX.

[@CoreyKinley]

Awesome footage

[@wisconsinrailfanner8963]

That S5T sounded amazing!

[@Danvers97]

Which one lol

[@wisconsinrailfanner8963]

Magnolia Route Productions bro I don’t remember I commented this over a year ago 😂😳

[@deborahmaciak5692]

My favorite Leslie Horn in the video is 8907’s horn.

[@kermitthemutantlevitatingf7836]

All those poor Chessie System and Seaboard Coastline locomotives all lined up on death row. :'(

[@1992cdwilliams]

what's up with the locomotives at the beginning of the video

[@wmuzeke]

It was the area where they stored locomotives that were out of service, wrecked, etc.

[@tommythomason6187]

Fascinating. Is that the Waycross passenger depot some of those trains are passing early in this clip? They should've painted all their engines, "Chessie System," even if they ceased using the name. It is one of the most beautiful paint schemes of the Modern Era.

[@wmuzeke]

It is the old ACL depot - well over 100 years old and still standing today. Back when I shot this video, it was being used by CSX as a crew base. I don't know when the last time it was used regularly for passenger service. Most likely, pre-Amtrak - I think Amtrak's Floridian stopped somewhere else when it ran through here in the 1970s. The Amtrak timetables from back then show Oklahoma Ave. as the station address. I agree on your Chessie comments!

[@the.porter.productions]

You sir have wonderful footage, thanks for sharing. We subbed

[@wmuzeke]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@eugenekleis8592]

Waycross Georgia

[@aircraftsandtrains2309]

Damn that rs5t

[@THR33STEP]

Good stuff!!!!!

[@lilshag3472]

I noticed the line the first two trains turned onto is now abandoned

[@railfanlynx]

CSX didn’t need it

[@lilshag3472]

I seen on google maps

[@timdaugherty5921]

looks like this track is long gone today

[@troynolen6448]

About 10 years ago, they built a new two main track connector from the Fitzgerald Sub at "Lane" straight through the old yard lead West of the station and overpass in the beginning of the building to connect directly to the Jessup sub SouthEast to Folkston. Also turnouts exist so that trains off of the Fitzgerald Sub can also turn NorthEast heading towards Jessup on the Jessup sub. This eliminated a series of very slow connecting tracks which blocked traffic in Downtown Waycross. Formerly trains heading from the Fitzgerald Sub to the Folkston side of the Jessup sub had to negotiate two very low speed turnouts, now they can blast over the diamond at 45mph. It's improved operations drastically

[@randybennett2989]

Awesome footage

[@wmuzeke]

Thanks!

[@lucaslawless4291]

Horn at 9:19?

[@aircraftsandtrains2309]

leslie rs5t