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Old 05-01-2014, 08:41 PM
 
Location: Sanford, NC
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North Carolina has great train watching...Georgia has incredible train watching! I had to get the important stuff in there...
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Old 05-02-2014, 01:14 AM
 
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North Carolina has great train watching...Georgia has incredible train watching! I had to get the important stuff in there...
Thats a thing?! I always look down the tracks when crossing but that's about it. Now ship watching on the other hand....
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Old 05-02-2014, 02:30 PM
 
Location: Ono Island, Orange Beach, AL
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Thats a thing?! I always look down the tracks when crossing but that's about it. Now ship watching on the other hand....
There is also plane spotting or something like that. Go figure!
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Old 05-02-2014, 06:22 PM
 
Location: Sanford, NC
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Thats a thing?! I always look down the tracks when crossing but that's about it. Now ship watching on the other hand....
I can see ship watching and plane watching being a thing. I thought I was the only one that liked watching trains...boy was I mistaken. It's HUGE! I went to Youtube and typed in "Railfanning Georgia" and got over 48,000 results. Keeping with the theme of this thread, North Carolina does have Hamlet, Fayetteville, Rocky Mount, Greensboro, Salisbury, Charlotte to name a few for watching trains. Some of my favorite places in Georgia for trains that I visit are Austell, Folkston, Waycross, Jenkinsburg and Locust Grove so both states are similar in that respect.....
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Old 05-02-2014, 06:55 PM
 
Location: Savannah GA
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Georgia is a great place for train spotting because all of the main trunk lines going in and out of Florida (and up the eastern seaboard) basically converge at one point in Folkston, where there are four parallel tracks in the center of town. The GRAND SLAM for train spotters is when four trains come through all at the same time going different directions.
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Old 05-03-2014, 12:17 AM
 
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I can see ship watching and plane watching being a thing. I thought I was the only one that liked watching trains...boy was I mistaken. It's HUGE! I went to Youtube and typed in "Railfanning Georgia" and got over 48,000 results. Keeping with the theme of this thread, North Carolina does have Hamlet, Fayetteville, Rocky Mount, Greensboro, Salisbury, Charlotte to name a few for watching trains. Some of my favorite places in Georgia for trains that I visit are Austell, Folkston, Waycross, Jenkinsburg and Locust Grove so both states are similar in that respect.....
I currently live in Greenville NC and we must have about 9 or 10 trains come through each day. The tracks intersect the middle of town like an "X" so its pretty much impossible not to live somewhere where you don't hear the train about every two hours. The worst one is about 5:30 AM (less than a quarter mile from my current residence). Wakes me up like clockwork.

We actually had a derailment the other day. Train derails in Greenville, leaks non-hazardous fertilizers - WNCT


I'll admit, I'm extremely fascinated by industrial things. Trains are cool, I just didn't expect a big community of train watchers to exist. There's a train track here that runs behind East Carolina University and it's always interesting when one comes by on a football game day. You'd think 50-70k fans tailgating + a train wouldn't mix well, but I've never heard of any accidents. Then again they normally go by during the middle of the games or about 30 minutes afterwards. I do remember a train coming through at the end of a game when about 45k fans were leaving the stadium. He slowed down to a snails pace.
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Old 05-06-2014, 11:29 AM
 
Location: Ono Island, Orange Beach, AL
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Georgia is a great place for train spotting because all of the main trunk lines going in and out of Florida (and up the eastern seaboard) basically converge at one point in Folkston, where there are four parallel tracks in the center of town. The GRAND SLAM for train spotters is when four trains come through all at the same time going different directions.
Wouldn't they get all smashed up???
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Old 05-06-2014, 11:53 AM
 
Location: Savannah GA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZW_rQIegfI&hd=1
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Old 05-07-2014, 03:30 PM
 
Location: Sanford, NC
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Videos like that never get old, thanks for sharing!
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Old 07-28-2014, 09:36 AM
 
Location: Savannah, Georgia
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Hi,
I'm actually looking for a 'safe' area in North Carolina to move! I've been in Savannah, ga. for 7 years and while it is certainly slow, and quaint, it is also heavy on murders, section 8's, free phones for poor people, and a typical example of parents after the civil war telling kids (now adults with kids) to 'Not make waves'. So they simply accept the crime, and the continual overlooking of Black criminals that are rampant in the area and around.
It's basically unsafe and for college students to get drunk, and some times killed.

Obama is the one down here and it's the epitome of the Obamanation so it's hard to be looking for the same unless you're collecting food stamps and want others to pay for your homes and get free phones....

Now if that is what you are looking for.... Savannah is the place! Cars are not examined or have to go through any inspection either!

Poverty made easy is Savannah.
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