Norfolk Southern Power Move 11-20-23
The month of November 2023 would bring about the end to yet another busy year of College as I wrapped up my Fall Semester ahead of schedule and just in time for the Thanksgiving Break. With relatives up north that i was overdue to see again, me and the family decided to throw a Hail Mary and headed out of our home turf of South Florida for a week long road trip across the Southeast. Along the way we managed to stop at multiple points of interest, among being the Train Town of Chattanooga, Tennessee which gave me an opportunity to visit a rather well known Hotspot
Named for local Chattanooga Railbuff “Scott Coffey”, Coffey’s Cliff has been touted in recent years as being one of the South’s premier Train Watching Locations. The cliff provides Train Buffs with an excellent vantage point of the north entrance to Norfolk Southern’s DeButts Yard. It is also here that two lines converge which further adds to the Train Action at Coffey’s. Those lines being the Norfolk Southern’s CNO&TP Third District which extends 84 miles north from here to Oakdale west of Knoxville, and the CSX W&A Subdivision which extends 119.1 miles south from CSX’s Wauhatchie Yard on the west side of town, down to North Elizabeth near Atlanta.
During my three night stay in Chattanooga from Sunday November 19th to Wednesday November 22nd, I managed to hit up Coffey’s twice. Both of my visits were short as I had other commitments to stick too. Nevertheless, what I did manage to see at Coffey’s on both days did not disappoint whatsoever. Upon arriving at the Cliff on the afternoon of the 20th, the action was well underway as a Yard Crew was busy shuffling a pair of motors down into the Yard. The conductor protects the reverse, or “shoving”, move from the platform of Union Pacific GE AC45CCTE #8012. The Engineer meanwhile keeps his hand at the throttle aboard NS ES44AC #8101. In 2012 to commemorate the company’s 30th anniversary, 20 Locomotives off the roster were repainted into the schemes of the predecessor companies that were instrumental in forming the modern day Norfolk Southern System which encompasses a total of 19,335 track miles. Among those 20 was the 8101 which was painted to honor the Central of Georgia Railroad who became part of the NS via the Southern Railway which acquired the COG in 1963. Video of the Engines and more: youtu.be/gfkS2xOACKk
Norfolk Southern Power Move 11-20-23
The month of November 2023 would bring about the end to yet another busy year of College as I wrapped up my Fall Semester ahead of schedule and just in time for the Thanksgiving Break. With relatives up north that i was overdue to see again, me and the family decided to throw a Hail Mary and headed out of our home turf of South Florida for a week long road trip across the Southeast. Along the way we managed to stop at multiple points of interest, among being the Train Town of Chattanooga, Tennessee which gave me an opportunity to visit a rather well known Hotspot
Named for local Chattanooga Railbuff “Scott Coffey”, Coffey’s Cliff has been touted in recent years as being one of the South’s premier Train Watching Locations. The cliff provides Train Buffs with an excellent vantage point of the north entrance to Norfolk Southern’s DeButts Yard. It is also here that two lines converge which further adds to the Train Action at Coffey’s. Those lines being the Norfolk Southern’s CNO&TP Third District which extends 84 miles north from here to Oakdale west of Knoxville, and the CSX W&A Subdivision which extends 119.1 miles south from CSX’s Wauhatchie Yard on the west side of town, down to North Elizabeth near Atlanta.
During my three night stay in Chattanooga from Sunday November 19th to Wednesday November 22nd, I managed to hit up Coffey’s twice. Both of my visits were short as I had other commitments to stick too. Nevertheless, what I did manage to see at Coffey’s on both days did not disappoint whatsoever. Upon arriving at the Cliff on the afternoon of the 20th, the action was well underway as a Yard Crew was busy shuffling a pair of motors down into the Yard. The conductor protects the reverse, or “shoving”, move from the platform of Union Pacific GE AC45CCTE #8012. The Engineer meanwhile keeps his hand at the throttle aboard NS ES44AC #8101. In 2012 to commemorate the company’s 30th anniversary, 20 Locomotives off the roster were repainted into the schemes of the predecessor companies that were instrumental in forming the modern day Norfolk Southern System which encompasses a total of 19,335 track miles. Among those 20 was the 8101 which was painted to honor the Central of Georgia Railroad who became part of the NS via the Southern Railway which acquired the COG in 1963. Video of the Engines and more: youtu.be/gfkS2xOACKk