PART 7: Rebuilding the Clinchfield Railroad ~ NO LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

[@designsinorbit]

The Poplar (Nolichucky Gorge) footage will be its own video and posted this weekend. Please help this channel by subscribing. Thank you.

[@Carolb66]

You are amazing with your drone footage. My favourite subject too train tunnels! Very creepy too with the music. I like how most American tunnels are blasted out of the rock. CSX are doing a good job with the rebuilding because wow there is a lot to do. I will be a bit emotional i think when a train passes through the gorge again. One of the most iconic sights of Helene is the track laying in the Nolichucky river unbelievable sight. Thank you for the continued updates on the Clinchfield its much appreciated ❤😊👍🙏🏻

[@TomStarcevich-fb3qo]

Hopefully they get the railroad up and running there's still a lot of work to be done 😮good progress so far 👍

[@CarolinaKid93]

I'm so glad they stopped us from recovering our washed out rail bed out if the river, so we could put hundreds of trucks on the road hauling rock. Of courses it's good for the quarry and keeping a lot if drivers busy. On another note, so sad to see rails I've ridden laying in the river. Leave 'em there, so the clowns worrying about the "fish" and the "rafting" can maneuver around them. Great vids....

[@Melissa-ce8dy]

Thanks for showing us the progress. You do a great job with these videos.

[@AppalachianRailroader_]

Mighty fine footage my friend. It is good to see the progress! A pair of crowes nested in the brush creek tunnel (years ago) about window height. We would toss cookies and crackers and French fries in their nest when we came through. Was always a highlight to the trip just like seeing the eagles.

[@elsdp-4560]

Thank you for sharing.👍

[@kenbishop-y2u]

This is amazing progress. I am very impressed. With that said there still a lot to do. CSX is a great railroad in my opinion. The Clinchfield runs about 100 yards from house on the south in of rail in Mayo SC. My Grandfather retired after 45 years working on the line from Tn. to Spartanburg.

[@garycousino]

8:40 very interesting as you can see how they are building back the RR bed. Very well done and so is the sound tract

[@carriegarrisonvos4433]

Great video again. They are getting somewhere and it's fascinating to watch it. Thanks again for keeping us updated!! Did you hurt your drone badly or were you able to fix it?

[@Greatdome99]

Great stuff, thanks.

[@rearspeaker6364]

12:23---- looks like gold in that sand.

[@tomt9543]

Great vid, except for the crash & burn! Someone somewhere must be staging these trucks so they don’t have to figure out how the load’s & empty’s are going to pass each other on the one lane road! Thanks for posting!

[@TheDr.Magnum]

I doubt they will due to cost, but do you think they will notch the tunnels for double stacks? The markings in spray paint might just be where they inspected the structural intergity of the tunnel. It would relieve a major bottleneck on the system if they modified them for double stacks.

[@charlierumsfeld6626]

Why are the dump trucks coming in only partially filled?

[@caryfmartin]

Could be because of a bridge couldn't take much more weight than that at a time.

[@gordonb6933]

These trucks are likely at or over weight considering they are moving wet rock and dirt.

[@caryfmartin]

Does anyone know where that church is located?

[@caryfmartin]

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[@tomt9543]

A lot of those were hauling large rocks called rip-rap. Doesn’t take many to max out the weight capacity of a truck.

[@garycallahan7867]

Thanks for another great video. The location labels are helpful. I wish you could have followed Roses Branch Rd down past Toecane, I’ve heard that part of it was washed away. Do you remember the old iron bridge across the river that the concrete one replaced?

[@beeraddlee1]

Unbelievable destruction and reconstruction. What if another hurricane equally powerful hits next fall?

[@josephwirtz8352]

15:00 Why are those dump trucks only half full?

[@larryc8568]

I think there are a number of temporary bridges with weight limits.

[@mikesmith8952]

As I want this video the tracks almost look like a model RR train set I had as a child. I want so badly to reach out and place all the tracks back where they belong. Knowing I can't breaks my heart 💝 so much 😢. I continue to look for a way I could come over there to help people as I own a small dump truck and an old skidsteer. My body is disabled too much for manual labor so using a machine is all I'm capable of now. Hopefully come spring time possibly if I'm able. Prayers for everyone.

[@Montbound1]

They first mentioned above $200 million for this. I’m no expert on cost but just looking at all the materials and trucks and big earth moving equipment there, this is going to far exceed 200 million probably more than a billion. I’d like to hear a final total when they are finished

[@Greatdome99]

Don't forget the overtime and double-overtime those workers are being paid! Many will be able to pay off their mortgages after this.

[@kenbishop-y2u]

I agree 200 million is not enough to cover the cost. I am no expert on cost either. But this is massive from Relief to Popular and on into Tn.

[@edwardliszka837]

How many miles if trackage need to be restored versus the entire length of the route?

[@MaynardCarl]

I also notice that the dump trucks are hauling very small loads od rock, it seems like a waste of fuel

[@MaynardCarl]

I notice there is no video of track being taken out of the river and being placed back on the railroad bed

[@monmixer]

All I can say is if the government allows the railroads to build their actual property back , even if the course of the river has changed, over the same property then residents who lost homes should be permitted to do the same and their township and county should help them.

[@monmixer]

They need to get all that crap out of that creek, steel, cables of all kinds, rails and ties, they will never get all those rail spikes out of that river.

[@caryfmartin]

Where is the location at approximately 9:07? Never mind the videos said toecane north carolina

[@raykes9549]

Many thanks for your awesome work. Maybe some of the places it would have been better to recover the rock from the river bed. Just saying.

[@JasonMyers-c6z]

They were doing that to begin with. The tree hugger environmentalists tried to sue them over doing that.

[@ocsrc]

Why not eliminate the tunnel ? The ground where you put in the road could be the new ROW

[@Punninator1]

The new road is where the railroad originally was, but the curve was too sharp for trains (even in 1906!) so the tunnel was made to help eliminate some of that. The tunnel will be daylighted by removing the part of the mountain that it bores through, so "eliminating the tunnel" is actually precisely what's going on!

[@ocsrc]

@Punninator1 that makes sense

[@scottskidmore2305]

why are dump trucks half loaded ?

[@TreeLBollingTreeMan]

Full load would sink in soft ground/gravel.

[@stephenp9899]

Those are large quarry stones, I would imagine it is due to the weight.

[@teresaadams825]

To safely travel up and down mountains

[@3wands1215]

💚🤎💛

[@samuelkissee3457]

What’s with the weird music??