Weekly update 9-4-09

Well it has been a while since my update, but there hasnt been much to post lately. Weather has been so awful this past week that i havnt bothered to go out railfanning. This update will cover events since the last update.

Site News

Ok this is isnt site news but still:

As some of you probably know Mr. Broughman, the owner of the Bullsheet website has decided to pull the plug on the CSX train listings page. Thankfully a fellow Atlanta railfan Joe Hill has saved the website and reuploaded it to his Georgia Railfanning page,heres the link to bookmark

http://www.georgiarailfan.net/csxtrains/freights.html

Area news

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Bolton third main

The third main at Bolton is coming along slowly as ever, since my last report in late July the trackwork has progressed up to Parott Avenue with ties layed up to the crossing.

Heres a shot of the OCS passing the work at Bolton.

OCS passing Parrot Ave on miserably cloudy August 27th evening, more on this later in the report.

Sightings

The big news of this (or i guess last) week was the NS OCS. The OCS was scheduled to run all the way from Altoona to Jacksonville but the brass decided to cancel the Atlanta to Jax segment of the trip. As the trip date of August 27th approached many area railfans were left wondering whether the train was going to make it into town. As it turned out, the train stopped for 30 minutes at Whitaker yard in Austell to let the brass detrain before deadheading to Inman yard where it would change crews before heading up the Piedmont to Altoona. Of course on the day the special came through it was totally cloudy, and as the train popped into sight at Parrott Avenue the rain began to fall, hardly ideal weather for railfanning but having never seen the OCS before i wasnt going to miss this.

The OCS approaching Parrott Avenue

The OCS stopped at Inman for recrewing

Heading up the Piedmont behind Atlantic Station.

Not much else of interest lately, though i havnt been railfanning in over a week.

While waiting for the OCS, this 732 came by Parrott Ave with a CEFX second in tow.

Report to be updated shortly with more pictures.