In all my railfanning adventures, I’ve never come close to Waycross. However, after viewing a collection of photos from Waycross, I am intrigued. I see in photos that it seems to be some sort of graveyard for dead or otherwise retired locomotives. Can anyone explain this? Can anyone provide information on hot spots and areas to watch and/or photograph the action without being mugged or killed? Also, any information on switching jobs in the area?
Thanks,
Matt
The “graveyard” pics you saw were probably from Progress Rail which scraps locomotives from all over the place. The best spot to watch trains, not technically in Waycross, is the famous Folkston Funnel about 30 miles Southeast. Here, trains come through from Waycross and Jessup (probably 60-70 trains per day). Hope this helps.
The people that work for Progress Rail work for a company out of Illinois they don’t sell anything. They rebuild the engines in their area or use the engines that are in the yard for parts that I know of they’re not a scrap yard but a rebuild company named Progress Rail. Over the past couple of months they have been working on a switcher the next in line is CR 9121 ready for a nice fixing. When I asked one of the workers if I can have a number board from one of the old engines in there he was fixing up a old GM&O GP10.
They might be a scrapper I have seen engines there that dissapeard over the months but I am only there 2 months a year.
kevin
Did they give you the number board?
Sure Daggett/Barstow & the Cajon pass in CA
Near downtown Waycross , located under a highway overpass is Waycross Recycling , Progress does have some equipment there but it is not a progress site .Progress is located about 20 miles away in Patterson Ga.
Randy
No I did not get the numberboard since they don’t sell or give away anything. Isn’t Waycross Recycling owned or apart of Progress Rail?
spbed- huh? You do know that he was asking about WAYCROSS,GEORGIA not Dagget.
PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE ME. [:)] [oX)] [:D]
kevin
There is a lot to see and photograph on that line- it is the main CSX line between Atlanta and Jacksonville. I’ve been through Folkston, and yes, it is rail fan friendly- but pretty small. There are more (and better) places to stay in Waycross.
By the way, the Georgia Department of Transportation has a really great website with rail maps on it: here’s the link:
http://www.dot.state.ga.us/dot/plan-prog/intermodal/rail/railmaps.shtml
Erik