Caught some action in Selma the other day. Seems they were doing some repair work out that way and they had a lot of traffic caught up. I even saw the juice train coming up from Florida. Cool stuff.
Archive > January 2008
Busy Week
This was a really busy week at work so I haven’t worked on the website or done anything on the blog. Not much railfanning either. Its snowing here now, kind of a dreary Saturday. I’m going to go work on the website, see if I can get some stuff done.
Visit to Hamlet, NC
This weekend I spent Saturday visiting Hamlet with my brother. Hamlet is quite the railfan mecca. I saw at least 5 other people just hanging around watching the trains go by. We were probably only at the station 5 hours total and we must have seen 10-15 trains. They just kept [...]
RTP Scanner Radio is ONLINE!
I finally got the RTP Railfan radio online. I’m having some problems with the intermods that find there way into the railroad band. Its pretty good though, I’ve only had it online a day and I can here the Cary, NC CSX detector. I would really like to be able to hear the NS detector [...]
Can’t work on website, building Yagi Antenna
Well, I read online that some people were using Yagi antenna’s for receiving talk over the AAR channels. I have two monopole antenna’s but I thought I would try building a Yagi. I sort of got it working I guess but I still don’t think its as good as it should be. [...]
Its been a while
So I was on vacation and I haven’t updated my blog in some time. I took some railfan trips, to Hamlet, Aberdeen, followed the Durham and Southern from Apex to Dunn, NC, went to Selma, NC on the old ACL mainline. It was quite a vacation. I have a ton of stuff to update http://www.rtprailfan.com/ [...]