Thanks Patrick for moving us out this morning. For my part today, I am moving over into the 1:1 scale, mostly because its so connected to my layout railroad. I created the layout railroad, which I named the Leonardtown and Savannah for places we have lived. In fiction, my RR exists to move freight and passengers from the Savannah wharf area into town and then on up the line to connect with a Class 1 (Southern in my imagination). So imagine my surprise when last summer while stuck in traffic, I discovered that there is a REAL RR which does exactly that although the interchange is with CSX. So here are some pictures of the "Savannah and Old Fort" RR. The "old fort" by the way refers to Ft. Jackson a War of Independence era fort on the Savannah River.
The Savannah and Old Fort is a Watco property, encompassing 6.5 miles of track and having 4 employees. It began in 2019 and primarily moves sulfuric acid, sulfur, gypsum, pulpboard, wood pellets and petroleum. It moves cars from the Savannah wharf area to an interchange point at Southover (Ga) yd where it interchanges with CSX. By the way for you railfans, the RR crosses "Marine Terminal Road" a somewhat rural road at grade level with no restrictions on approaching the track so pictures are easy.
So here is the Savannah and Old Fort , Watco short line in action. Note...I admit to a lack of ability to distinguish one modern diesel from another so I won't even attempt at labeling this locomotive. If anyone out there can do that, please put it in the post as I would like to know. None of their web site literature discusses equipment.
As you can see, these locomotives are fairly clean, this may be fresh paint jobs as these pictures are only about 2 years into the establishment of the line by Watco.
Note - just to make the monitors happy, these pictures are mine taken personally.
Have a great weekend everyone.
Best Wishes
Don
