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Published: 2009-07-05 18:38:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 339; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 7
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While in Augusta this was all the street running I caught all day, and I caught this one on arrival but it was the only train moving in Augusta after 7:00AMThe reason why is because NS and CSX shut down operations for the holiday. It would just so happen that the one day I'm there and can catch all the street running I want is the day they'd do that.
It was strange not hearing a train horn in Augusta after this. Operations resumed at 7:00AM this morning.
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sweet thanks for the feature
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Augusta has them, and I need to make a trip there soon.
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The South has all the fun!
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It's up north to places like Chicago and some in PA
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I still think its bizzare seeing street running (here in the UK we dont really get that beyond trams now, there was only ever a few street sections and they've all been shut. Theres a new one, a narrow gauge steam railway in Wales, but it isnt open yet). Very nice picture, the composure of the shot is great, even if the idea of a massive freight train trundling down the street is a bit odd
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it's being fazed out in the U.S. to slowly but surely.
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Thats a shame. I found a pic of what was arguably the UK's most well-known street running section of railway, the Weymouth Harbour line [link] As you can see, a few issues with cars on the route 
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I need to catch as much of it as possible to because they've been plotting to move the tracks for years
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On the street running by me the trains throw the stop lights so they can cross the streets, but they still have to obey the red lights if it takes them awhile to change.
I have yet to catch a freight train street running, its always passenger trains.
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Passanger trains is what this set-up was intended for.
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I still have a hard time wrapping my head around the street-running concept. Definitely have to be on your toes on either side of the ball here.
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Well making the shot isn't that hard because it is going slow but you do have the problem of possibly being blocked by motorist.
The main reason there was street running is because in the days of Southern they also used to run trolley cars down the street and that mint it was much easier for passenger trains and trolley cars to get to the old depot.
Now they don't have that and you have modern freight trains going down the middle of the street only and that makes it kind of a hazard which is why they want to relocate these tracks.
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It's weird, the way it seems to be coming right up Main Street!
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That's not uncommon in Augusta but may end in a couple of years.
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There's a place near where my grandparents lived in southeast Kentucky that was similar to that ... but they've been stripmining the area for many years, so I haven't gone back, and don't know if it's still in operation. I'd rather remember it the way it was ...
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Look up the location on rrpicturearchives that may tell you.
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Wow, a whole website dedicated to train pictures! I'm not even a little surprised. :->
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You can look up almost any engine or location there and as long as there has been a photographer who has been there or seen that engine it should be there.
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Talk about a rush hour headache, and on another note, it blew a red light.
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That is how Norfolk Southern has run through Augusta's 6th street for over 100 years.
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