So as I said before I'd be creating individual seperate pages for my fictional subdivisions. Here is 1 of them. This particular blog is about the story of what I call the CSX Red City Sub. This rail line origins off the other mainline on a WYE, the WYE leads to the main & the CSX "Richardson Yard", 6 trains origin at this yard, mainly intermodal/mixed freight combo trains, 1 is a trash/mixed freight combo, the other is a mixed freight, 4 of them terminate @ Red City itself, while the other 1 continues to a yard called "Frederick Yard". This count also includes their counterparts. This line sees a lot more traffic, the other line that continues straight sees much less traffic but often unit trains & some mixed freight & rarely passengers. This line crosses 3 towns/cities & 2 unincorporated communities.
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SB mixed freight heading on the last few miles of the Red City Sub before turning the WYE onto to the other mainline |
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SB Intermodal/Mixed freighter heading south on the last few miles of the Red City Sub |
Like mentioned before, there is a Defect Detector (DD) @ milepost 2.0 which is just outside of Cream City, which lies on milepost 1.5. There are signals for southbounders in the downtown area of Cream City & a signal for northbounders on the single main, there is a small siding track in Cream City but its not a passing siding. It's just for small trains & setting off cars. Also in the city is a newly installed Amtrak Station.
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NB CSX Intermodal tipping the N. Cream City Signal for northbounders |
Just past Cream City there is a large curve & the line aims straight again. Not far from the curve is a waste facility with its own railyard.
Here trains will drop off cars with trash containers on them & a local from the nearby Red City Yard will carry some cars with ash containers to this facility.
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Waste Flats |
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The waste flatcar "yard" in between flats |
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The trash cars sitting in the yard |
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The yard after a train has dropped off some cars & worked the yard |
Going north is the unincorporated community of Hayne, it's nothing but 2 houses & hills & where the double track segment of the Red City Sub begins as well as the Defect Detector & signals guarding the line for south & northbounders.
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NB CNW 1995 Mixed freighter heading for Red City near Hayne |
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NB mixed freighter clearing the signals @ Hayne |
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NB Mixed freight nice long mixed string of cars |
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NB mixed freight |
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SB mixed freight w awesome rare power |
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SB 1 unit wonder |
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SB 1 unit wonder running thru the beautiful countryside....better hope it doesnt runaway lol... |
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Train passing just north of the small unincoporated "community" of Hayne |
Past Hayne is a 4 lane highway that encounters the Red City Sub lucky them the trains here go full speed, near by is a church as well & a 4 lane expressway that surpasses the Red City sub as well as more hills through this beautiful countryside. North of the highway crossing is another railroad crossing through the plain woods, it was recently built not long ago. This crossing lies near South Red City, here there are signals guarding the line north & south.
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NB AWVR freighter @ South Red City prior to the installments of signals here |
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Mixed freight bound for Red City Yard @ South Red City prior to the grade xing |
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SB mixed freighter out of Red City Yard for the short trip to Richardson Yard |
About a mile or so ahead lies the City of Red City!, this area has the largest railyard on the entire Red City Sub, it is a freight & intermodal yard. That explains why so many trains out of Richardson Yard have intermodal on them. Red City has its own share of activity & life, in it is the Red City Amtrak, about 6 amtraks use this station as well as diesel-powered commuters. Signals guard the line on the last crossing of town & north of the Amtrak station.
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