Ashland Railway steel coil train arrives at CSX Willard Ohio yard and CSX train meets ASRY 2027

[@tracksidemike]

Fantastic video thanks for taking the time to share 👍🏻🚂🔔

[@frederickwise5238]

Interesting. Newark was where I started my machinist apprenticeship in 1956. Short lived. When the B&O bought a fleet of new diesels, all apprentice programs were cancelled (Jan 58) so I joined the Navy, got into electronics. And Willard was the terminus where Dad and Mom came to pick me up when I returned from ET school (TI Calif) in Jan '59. My LAST real train ride from San Fran to Chi town and down to Willard. Love this video. Id like to take one more ride but Amtrak doesnt go where I need to! Newark , you end up either Cleveland or Cincinnati, then a 3hr rental car drive. LOL

[@doublediamondrailroad5949]

Been wondering about Willard for over a year. Access looks challenging. Was told views only at ends of Yard. Closer trip for me than Fostoria. Boy What a Dip in that one shot toward end! Everything was bouncing hard! Must be a collapsed Tie underneath.

[@ldegmtrainspotter]

Briliant rail movie! Awesome images with trains and nice winter landscapes! Good work, Scott! Thumbs Up All the best from Dublin Andrew

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thanks for watching Andrew!

[@williamschlenger1518]

Great video.I love the different angles.

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thank you

[@davidbarnett9312]

As usual the drone shots enhance the experience. Viewing the yard, I can see where all the auto rack cars have gone. Both CSX trains running side by side are monsters. Railroads have cut back on crews and lengthened the trains.

[@praetorianguardofreagan]

I have been wondering, with a crappy economy where are all those car carriers going or are they all empty. I remember before they had those metal screens on the side and you could see the cars.

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

@@praetorianguardofreagan This was filmed about 11 months ago when the chip shortage was really hitting the automakers.

[@ericvanthomme7642]

Fantastic footage. The drone coverage is the best around. Keep it coming.

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thank you so much!

[@robertblackwelder8201]

Pity the conductor or brakeman riding the last coil car as train is running backwards! Hopefully he is warm and not doing this in ice and snow

[@steveparker8723]

Awesome drone footage.

[@gp3829]

Hi, Thanks for posting and I'm glad the weather improved for you to produce some nice footage.

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

I film in all weather but I prefer dry!

[@CR7659]

ASRY 3215 ex-NS nee Southern, sold to Progress Rail in 2021. Built as high short hood. ASRY 3505 ex-NS built as Milwaukee Road 200, to Soo 6387, to DME 6387, to Helm 6213, to NS. Appears to have had entire cab and nose replaced in 2014. Both of these sat in the same deadline and had their number boards removed there, hence the new non-NS style ones. ASRY 2027 built as Penn Central 7787 GP38 to CR, to CMNW 2033, to ASRY

[@jankrueg1786]

Former NS 3215 was rebuilt at Altoona in 2013-2014 with an upgraded Admiral Cab. It is also still sporting the 2014 NMRA National Convention logo on the long hood. Very faded after almost 9 years, but still there

[@tommymartin4827]

This is cool to see all that trackage. Nice work this is great material for modeling 👍

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thank you

[@donaber8277]

Excellent video, great job.

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thank you

[@williamschlenger1518]

From the drone it looks like a model railroad layout 👍

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Yes sure does!

[@Nicola636128]

Great video.

[@StormySkyRailProductions]

That was really sweet, nice work Scott! Ha ha at the end, lol! (Dave).

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thank you!!

[@StormySkyRailProductions]

@@ScottTaipaleRail Your welcome.

[@LarrySalzman]

My fav rail fan channel without a doubt.

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thank you so much!

[@fogdan]

Super Coll & Very Awesome Video. Well Done Sir!!

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thank you

[@BlackMan614]

You're the best! Drone shots awesome as usual.

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thank you

[@RTS4018]

Excellent as always.

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thank you

[@fredstuckmann]

Very nice footage.

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thanks Fred!

[@Og-Judy]

When I first heard Ashland, I thought it had to do with Wisconsin 😛😁

[@rickcope3226]

This was a very good video

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thank you

[@geac9100]

Nice work!

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thank you!

[@philliplee980]

Awesome catches

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thanks!

[@philliplee980]

@@ScottTaipaleRail your welcome

[@Chessie1985]

Excellent trains Scott!!!!!

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thank you

[@Chessie1985]

@@ScottTaipaleRail You're welcome!!

[@brianbrown8889]

Super video!!

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thank you

[@rogerkane8775]

What industry in that area uses those coils and what are their end products?

[@kennydemartini2169]

The steel plant in Mansfield, Ohio makes those coils. They are shipped all over the country for automotive, appliances and other industries.

[@BigUnitBeef]

Used to be so much busier. Damn Hunter Harrison.

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Yes its a ghost town. It was lively

[@KalamazooAreaRailfan]

Are you using a Sony A7S 3 For filming?

[@anthonytidey2005]

We in the UK cover steel in transit, especially coils steel, which is usually bound for the car or white goods market. As steel that get wet rusts quickly? Thank for the video

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Steel is generally carried in covered cars here in the USA also. I’m not sure about the quality of the product or end use but the coils that come out of AK Steel’s Mansfield plant are always shipped uncovered. Maybe someone with inside knowledge can chime in with a precise answer.

[@kelvintorrence5994]

It's Cleveland cliffs steel company now,AK and accelor metell or whatever they where called sold out to them.

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

I guess I knew that and forgot! Memory makes it hard to start calling an old place a new name!

[@keithmoore5306]

didn;t know the turntable was still there i thought they took it out when they tore down the roundhouse decades ago!!

[@thomasdupee1440]

It's still in use because without it, there would be no method of turning a locomotive. There was a wye track off of the Sandusky main, even after the line was abandoned, the wye was kept in service for several years until it, too, was removed.

[@keithmoore5306]

@@thomasdupee1440 well i've never heard anyone talk about it still being there so i figured it went with the roundhouse what 35 40 years back? but i'll tell ya i want a straight answer on why they drained both reservoirs a couple years back! 2 descent fishing holes gone!

[@thomasdupee1440]

@@keithmoore5306 The dams at both reservoirs were deteriorated and in need of major renovation. Instead of spending the money for renovation they decided to remove the dams.

[@keithmoore5306]

@@thomasdupee1440 uh huh the story i've heard more than once is corporate legal ordered it after that senile old woman fell in the old res!

[@valeriebassett3107]

When did you film this. It would be nice when we read your write up to have the date included when it was filmed. Thanks for sharing and give your son's a hug from both me and my husband. It is great that they like trains too!

[@keithmoore5306]

its at least 3 weeks old we had snow when buffalo got buried and maybe a trace since!

[@jordanvanichek2434]

This is from last year at least. I’m from this area and there is still a house visible that is still standing - which unfortunately caught fire and destroyed it last winter.

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Valerie, this was filmed 1-3-22. I know you keep asking on my videos and I keep forgetting. I promise one of these uploads I will remember to add the filming date to the description! Thank you for watching as always!

[@keithmoore5306]

@@jordanvanichek2434 are you talking about the one the garage blew up on next to the trailer or one north of the tracks? if it's the garage that was earlier this year!

[@jordanvanichek2434]

@@keithmoore5306 Yes, that one. The red and white house are no longer there

[@vernontorrence4407]

Would this be a part of the old Ashland & Wooster RR?

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

I don't think so

[@vernontorrence4407]

You are right. I consulted a map. It ran to Wellington then Lorain. It was A&W for a brief period before 1900. Thanks for a great video. And l agree about the drone shorts. They add perspective.

[@thomasdupee1440]

@@vernontorrence4407 The Ashland Railway was formed after Conrail abandoned most of the Erie Lackawanna. ASRY, at first, took over the former Erie from Creston, OH through Ashland to Mansfield, OH. ASRY later acquired the former B&O Newark line from Willard to Mansfield and connected the two routes using a newly constructed track on the north side of the former PRR main in Mansfield. ASRY has since cut back their former Erie line to terminate at West Salem, OH.

[@vernontorrence4407]

@@thomasdupee1440 I grew up in Wooster. I remember a lot of those old railroad lines. I actually saw the Erie Lackawana in Burbank Oh. I remember the B&O and C&O as separate RR's. I remember the Penn Central. I remember the N&W. I remember when Amtrak didnt exist. I grew up a half mile from the B&O line from Lodi to Wooster. Live in SC now. Thanks for the walk back in time.

[@kelvintorrence5994]

@@vernontorrence4407 your last name is mine,I'm kelvin torrence

[@alfrednewman6377]

what kibd of drone you use?

[@sernajrlouis]

Cool video and channel just subscribed

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thank you for the sub

[@tomp8871]

Busy little spot eh.

[@bb-ov3pi]

That run looked extremely inefficient where they had to pull on to a main and then back up switch two tracks and then pull forward into the yard when there tracks would only have to cross over the two main lines and go directly into the yard.

[@thomasdupee1440]

I agree that it's inefficient, but that's the only way for the Ashland Railway to put away their train if the designated arrival track is on the north side of the yard. In this case, their destination is the Block Swap (aka Departure) yard, which was added to the north of the westbound yard in 1999 in anticipation of the additional traffic from the Conrail acquisition.

[@williamschlenger1518]

They still have a turntable?

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Yes I believe CSX still uses that turntable.

[@thomasdupee1440]

Yes. It's the only way to turn a locomotive in Willard.

[@bigern32480]

Beautiful drone shots… What are you flying?

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Thanks, DJI Mavic 2 zoom

[@way2tired2]

That is a LOT of fouling that Ashland Railway train had to do in order to get into the yard. jeez. Forward, backup, change tracks, forward, change tracks.

[@paulbergen9114]

Not the acid Railway I remember from say 25-30 years ago while it was still switchers and GP9S. Love watching them snake through the yard and also the CSX run bys esp the one being overtaken. Now at least I know where those coil cars of theirs start out. Stupid voice translator. Ashland Ry not acid

[@ScottTaipaleRail]

Lol I thought you were referencing railroading in the 60's

[@thomasdupee1440]

@@ScottTaipaleRail Booo lol