I snuck (sneaked?) out of the house on Saturday in hopes of catching something. I got a call from a friend with a tip that CSX was combining two of their big trains into one move. Here's what I discovered.
Danny, I'm a conductor with CSX in NE Ohio. Home terminal is QD 173. The corona virus shut down so many factories, That is what killed our shipping. Thank you for these sir. Keep them coming!
Tropicana is shipping more juice then ever, but largely from the greatly expanded Ft. Pierce plant, which sends cars north to Jacksonville on the FEC, where they join up with CSX. Large number of oranges processed at the East coast plant are from S. America, this due to urban expansion into the groves and various Florida citrus diseases.
Railfanning is the perfect hobby for quarantine: isolate yourself next to a railroad crossing in the middle nowhere, and you're all set! Great video as always!
Hard at age 70 to believe that here I sit at milepost ll4 of Amtrak's Empire Service line (CSX for freight), trying to hear "And there's Danny" at 3:22 on a cheapie phone. Okay, I guess I hear it. Maybe someone can tell me about the previous phrase. Is it "We got limping on the bottom"??? Or maybe "leaking"??? The best of us here in the Kearny Metropolitan Area actually love and appreciate this southeastern linguistic conspiracy to mystify us. After all we're the ones getting the orange juice. Fabulous video! I still have some sort of cousins in Piedmont region NC and northeastern Georgia, maybe Toccoa, btw. Thanks again!
I have been following your account for 2 ½ years now, and I have to thank you for your content. Coming from a very different railroading background (I work as a locomotive engineer in Italy), I found your videos very informative. Thank you from KP (kilometer-post) 147.48 (Verona Porta Nuova station) along the Milan-Venice railway line.
To me, freight trains are usually boring unless they have a story behind them. Thank you, Danny, for giving us the stories behind today's freight trains.
Hard to believe that just two locomotives pulled that way cars without being in full "Notch 8" and a strained motor. Well done and I must complement your knowledge on the different rules of the FRA.
I only hope you understand how much of an inspiration you are to fellow railfans everywhere! You're humble, well informed, equipped and genuinely love what you do.
I’m not seeing much interaction in comments but ...I enjoy the story. Danny knows so much inside information. Sad to see the Tropicana cars cluttered up with spray paint.
Excellent video! From one RU-vidr to another, I must say that I have learned a lot from your videos! I hope all the workers / companies in the railroad industry appreciate your hard work in putting out accurate, educational, and entertaining videos.
Hello again Danny, while working a swing shift off the extra board at Yeoman, we used to build a big train similar to the one on this video. It required a crew on both ends of track 2, and a full eight hours to complete. Lots of down time waiting for our turn to move. Not a bad shift, time for supper cooked on a little grill the conductor built. Fun times.
This was tremendous!! The only video I ever posted was last year when the Union Pacific Big Boy went through Andover, Minnesota. Your knowledge is tremendous. Thanks for the post. Best videos out there!!
Danny keep up the good work I enjoy all your videos and I'm going to pass this on to a friend of mine on Friday when I see him he's going to like watching your videos he is a real fan just like me you keep up the good work stay safe may the Lord's blessings be with you may the good Lord take a liking to you can you be safe take care for now and keep up the good work I enjoy your videos
Thanks for getting out and photographing some train action. More to look at while sitting at home. I imagine you didn't have too many social distancing complaints from the residents of the cemetery.
I sometimes wonder why I watch these RR videos but given my childhood back in the late forties and early fifties, steam engines were still in use. I am from coal country in NE PA (Shamokin) where hard coal is still king and it is that coal hauling, by large trains powered by up to five engines with three in front and two pushing on the back, that got me addicted to trains. We could hear them coming on the Sunbury line a mile away and when they finally came into view less than fifty feet from me, I think my eyes were as big as the drivers wheels on the train! What a sound they made but sadly, in all the years that have passed, I have not been close to a steam engine pulling a hard load again. Well that's another one for the bucket list but at my age, the bucket seems to have a hole in it:) BTW, I have been to Steam Town in Scranton, PA and it's worth the visit! They even have a Big Boy parked there....
Awesome job as usual Danny. I, too, am one of those guys that has watched all of your old videos. As a matter of fact, I was watching some old S.A.L. history videos and I heard an old familar voice. Checked the credits, and laughed to my self. Thanks for keeping us entertained.
For a doubled train, I would’ve thought it would be longer than 8139 feet. Up on the CP, intermodals and manifests can push 15K feet... there was a 17k foot UP manifest not too long ago. Great video, danny!
Great film Danny, very interesting and great to see the massive trains you guys run over there. Makes a change from the tiny little one's we see here in the UK.
I cannot thank you enough Danny for you insight, camera footage and just plain train information for us train enthusiasts. You're a reach champ. But put your mask on brother!! We care about your health!!
Thanks for the great video and drone shots Danny. I always look forward to them, especially now being stuck at home. If you get locked up while sneaking out to make your fans another video, let us know, a bunch of us will get together and throw your bail. Stay safe, we want you around for a long time. Don in nh.
Greetings from the UK! Really enjoy your videos. They are a delight to watch; excellent filming, narration, production and editing - love the way you include drone and lineside camera cuts together. Very slick! Thanks for breaking lockdown rules to bring us this one. Looking forward to seeing some more from you, whenever that will be. Stay safe, Mr Harmon. Oh, and please wear your seatbelt when you are chasing...!
Thank you for the long train out of Tampa. I found your videos about a month ago and you sir are THE BEST . I thoroughly enjoyed this one. Keep on keeping on. I have learned a lot from you. Thanks again from the Upstate of South Carolina. 🚆
"Upstate of South Carolina"??? That's the first time I've ever heard that. You did transplant down there from New York, did you???? Ha! Many thanks for your kind comments.
@@distantsignal LOL, not from New York. The upstate of South Carolina is a term I heard when I moved from Texas. It's all the counties that boarder NC. 😊
Another great video. I wanted to be an engineer before I ever wanted to be a pilot. I went the aviation route instead, so I'm not terribly well versed in railroad ops. Your videos are helping to remedy that. My son and I love it. Maybe we'll run into you one day at Folkston. Thanks again.
I guess times have changed. In my day inside the yard limit sign, switch crews did the work. Here I see the road crew making up the train in the yard. As a brakeman on the local on the SP's Hearne sub, we picked up our train at Englewood and did no work until we were outside the yard limit sign, which in those days was somewhere past Campbell Road on what is now the old Hempstead Highway. We coupled the engines in the yard, but yardmen coupled the air hose and another boarded the caboose and checked the air pressure.
Hey Danny stay safe out there. Thanks for the new video. You need to keep at least 6 feet from a moving train or you stand the chance of catching something. Lol
Thanks Dan, we used to come to Florida ( Anna Maria Island ) pre-pandemic and the only trains I seem to see were the Tropicana Trains around Bradenton, more recently we travelled further and Flagstaff Az is a favourite. Many Thanks for your explanations. Nigel.
Don’t have a clue what your talking about, but love the sounds of the trains. My dad worked for southern pacific his whole life. We traveled by train a lot when I was a kid.
Danny as far as I’m concerned your work of making videos is a crucial thing to keep all of us entertained so that we all don’t go stir crazy keep up the good work and wish you had more time with the day so you could crank out more videos for us sheltering in place people have a good day bye-bye
Tropicana needs to start sponsoring your videos as I now purchase their orange juice on a regular basis from seeing them go by on your channel. Calgary Alberta here.
Agree about Tropicana. Tropicana Grovestand w/pulp has been my favorite orange juice for the last 25 years. I buy the gallon. Dont care about the price. Great video as usual.
These days, the "Fireman's Side", can be called the "Conductor's Side". (At least that's what I call it.) That is unless the train is either powered by a steam engine, or a left-hand operated diesel.
What they did was combine three trains into one. Really fun to watch them put a puzzle together though it kinda sucks the intermodel ended up on the end since it was going to be dropped off first.
Danny. You are doing a great job. There are something I don't quite understand. The one is how to identify which is Main one and two. The other is north south east west bound. Thank you for you hard work. This is Robert over and out.
