I heard about Dalton, Georgia on my first trip to the Chattanooga area several years ago. With so many different locations to railfan in the Tennessee-Alabama-Georgia tri-state area I didn’t get to it that first trip on even the first time I returned but after seeing how much traffic the CSX and Norfolk Southern had through town from watching the livestream cameras from @VirtualRailfan I knew I wanted to make a there for a day.
The depot has a nice museum inside and is where the cameras that @VirtualRailfan are located but the passenger car that is on display really limits your view to the south and does not provide a great view of the diamond that is just to the north of the depot. Instead, I recommend going to the parking garage that is to the north of the depot and overlooks the CSX controlled diamond with the Norfolk Southern. You can park in the shade and get a great view of the southern diamond almost right in front of you.
Historically Dalton was where the Southern Railway and Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis would have met up and run parallel to each other and eventually cross. The NC&StL has become the CSX W&A Subdivision and the Atlanta North District of the Norfolk Southern belonged to the Southern Railway. This busy mainline crossing sees 40-45 trains a day.
Today we catch Train ID: 26C-08. The all GE consist is let by NS 8033, a GE ES44AC. In the middle is NS 4481, a C44-9W rebuilt in March of 2021 and now classified as a AS44C6M. Last in line is another AC44C6M, NS 4106.
Timecodes
00:00 - Intro
00:07 - Title
00:24 - Train
01:00 - Buttons
02:56 - End Screen
CSX, NS, Norfolk Southern, intermodal, EMD, GE, diamond, parking garage, train, railroad, railway, trainspotting, GE Locomotives
#railroad #railway #trainspotting
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