Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Vintage Railroad Interchange Memphis TN

Vintage Railroad Interchange Memphis TN Video Clips. Duration : 13.18 Mins.


Video contains footage of Class 1 freight railroads interchanging at Memphis Tennessee during the Fall/Winter of 1990. Highlights: CSX Leewood Yard 1316 Warford St. 00:00 Union Pacific C30-7 & SD40-2s switch CSX EMD power. 01:08 CSX crew boards locomotive no. 2625 01:20 Truck slams on the breaks as the train approaches the dangerous grade crossing. UP & CSX engines movements. 02:14 SP B30-7 no. 5108 sits idle at the yard. 02:48 UP freight pulls out of yard with a full train. 03:33 My dad gives information about the yard. 03:57 Baby Jared (Me) talks about the trains. 06:09 Railroad crew boards the SP locomotive. SP unit & CSXT switcher have a mini race to the grade crossing. NS Forrest Yard 2552 Southern Ave. 08:27 UP freight heads west with SD40-2s & SD50. 10:01 Same UP freight seen before approaches 1089 South Cooper St. The locomotive has a Leslie S3L airhorn. For some reason the high-pitch bell is extremely loud. Sounded kind of cool to me! 10:56 Short NS train departs Forrest Yard. My dad called the train "Southern Norfolk" instead of Norfolk Southern LOL. 12:34 Short NS train seen before passes the UP freight also seen previously at Forrest Yard. All footage recorded by my father, Arthur Davis, and rights belong to (C) Jared Davis of Whistlepost Productions.

Keywords: Interchange, Train, Railroad, Vintage, Union, Southern, Pacific, Norfolk, CSX, Leewood, Forrest, Yard, Memphis, Tennessee, GE, C30-7, EMD, SD40-2, SD50, GP38-2, GP40-2, Grade, Crossing, Dangerous, Freight, Class, One, Leslie, Airhorn, Horn, S3L, Nathan, P3

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