CSX Grain Train Video

Nice find.   I for one, would love to watch a model even 1/10 this long of a grain train.  :-)

I like the up and down hills. Hard to duplicate.

I don't know how they stay on some sections of track, like the one in the close-up. 

Very nice video footage. This is a good example to test what a friend who retire from the Erie GE plant taught me a convenient way of differentiating between modern GE and EMD diesel locomotives. The fuel tank under the GE locomotives have lines where the sheet metal was "pinched" bent, while the EMD fuel tanks are "roll" bent. Accordingly this train has 3 GE locomotives and 1 EMD locomotive Would anyone care to confirm this ID method?

I also like your choice of stationary portions where we see the stream of cars climbing and dissenting the hills, as well as the focusing on rails that move under the heavy weight of the grain cars. You have given me some ideas of various video shots to make my videos more interesting.

Thanks

Hm, is that the sort of topography that engineers call "hogback" territory, and how is that usually handled in terms of slack management?

---PCJ

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Swafford