Diesel Shop: (Satellite, I highlighted the transfer table.)
"Also optimistically, although NS's network has slowed to a crawl in the south, they've managed to keep snaking the intermodal traffic around the trouble spots for the most part, and between NJ/Harrisburg and Chicago, things are still zooming."
Even though the Crescent Corridor is intermodal oriented, it should mean an improvement of the track infrastructure for all freight.
Jeffrey Smith posted the comment: "NS is Reinstalling everything in there old yard in Chattanooga there putting a Hump tower Retarder Switches and Bowl tracks back in due to the increase in Traffic given to them by CSX last year it has become over barring to the point NS is doing this to help the Bottle neck it has caused this year."
Downtown: (Satellite, since this was a passenger train yard, most of it is gone now)
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| NS Locomotives , Equipment and its Predecessors posted Fuel racks and shops @ Chattanooga Tn July 2021 Randall Hampton shared |
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| Viral Media posted Chattanooga Diesel Shops The Norfolk Southern diesel shops in Chattanooga have been a landmark for decades. The Chattanooga diesel shop was the third one built exclusively for diesel work by Southern Railway. • Mission Critical (Rapid Repairs) • Transfer Table • Back Shop • Main Offices • Store House • Maintenance Line • North Wash Building • Wreck Shop • North East Repair Facility (N.E.R.F.) • Paint Shop • Fuel Rack Office • Fuel Rack • Assessment • South Wash Map data ©2023 Google |
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| Viral Media posted [The description is the same as the above post except they added "Mission Critical (Rapid Repairs)" at the top of the bullet list.] |
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| Viral Media posted View from Lookout Mtn. A view of Norfolk Southern DeButts Yard from Point Park on Lookout Mtn. in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The hump yard in Chattanooga was shut down in 2017. The yard then served as a block-swapping facility. After the closures, the railroad struggled to operate minus key hump yards, the hump yard in Chattanooga resumed operations by the end of 2018. The hump remained completely intact but the retarders were removed. The retarders, devices that slow cars on their descent into the classification bowl had to be re-installed. DeButts remained busy as a flat switching classification yard, block swapping location, and engine shop. Due to a surge in traffic, dismal terminal dwell times, and overall slower transit times in the southeast, NS decided to reopen the hump at DeButts. Joseph Tuch Santucci: The rail industry is legendary for stumbling over $100 bills to pick up pennies. |
NS to reopen Debutts Yard hump
"Also optimistically, although NS's network has slowed to a crawl in the south, they've managed to keep snaking the intermodal traffic around the trouble spots for the most part, and between NJ/Harrisburg and Chicago, things are still zooming."
Even though the Crescent Corridor is intermodal oriented, it should mean an improvement of the track infrastructure for all freight.
Jeffrey Smith posted the comment: "NS is Reinstalling everything in there old yard in Chattanooga there putting a Hump tower Retarder Switches and Bowl tracks back in due to the increase in Traffic given to them by CSX last year it has become over barring to the point NS is doing this to help the Bottle neck it has caused this year."
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Justin Stickland posted seven photos of cleaning up a derailment and a couple of photos of an Illinois Terminal locomotive rolling by. I spotted at least two covered hoppers on their side. And a Railbox had one end smashed in.
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| Viral Media posted NS Chattanooga Terminal This is an old chart from Southern Railway showing DeButts Yard and the terminal subdivision in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Basic operation is freight cars arrive, are sorted by destination (classified) and then built into outbound trains by destination. Norfolk Southern Debutts Yard now consists of 60 tracks arranged in seven groups: four groups of nine tracks for humping, three groups of eight tracks for flat-switching, at the pull-out end. The hump classifies cars for local customers; the flat-switch section is used mainly for block swapping, to make up new trains that are pulled out into the departure yards. The hump throughput capacity at DeButts Yard is now 800 to 1,000 cars per day. The aerial photo is expanded a bit to make the tracks more visible. |
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| NS Locomotives , Equipment and its Predecessors posted deButts Yard @ Chattanooga Tn June 2021 Gregory Milani: When I first got on the RR I thought I would never be able to learn all the tracks, turnouts and crossovers, the hump the class yards and pullbacks , now I know them like the Back of my hand!!! |
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| NS Locomotives , Equipment and its Predecessors posted Southern hump set working at Chattanooga Tn. June 1986 |
The downtown yard:
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| Don Whatley posted Back when Chattanooga was a RR hot spot. 1955. Shared from another FB page. |
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| Randy James commented on Don's post This was the Southern railways terminal, the nc&stl, l&n and central of Georgia used union Station that was sadly demolished in 1974, it was a much larger and more architecturally appealing building. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Randy's comment The Southern station. https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m6!1e1!3m4... |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Randy's comment 1958 Chattanooga Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 |
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| E.m. Bell posted Southern GP35 2713 is inside the Debutts Diesel shop for wheel work and it's 92 day inspection. Chattanooga Tennessee 1988. Anthony Sullivan: Chattanooga Diesel Shop. Not debutts diesel shop in Chattanooga. |
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