Private Abandoned Railroad Crossing at Bass Pro Shops 

The amount of rust on this private spur makes it obvious that this track has not had a train on it in years. I wonder who the original customer was for this trackage. Thank you for finding this spur and bringing it to our attention!

That spur serviced what was the Florida Steel industry. When the business changed names to US Metal Fabricators rail shipments stopped about 5 years ago. Florida Steel was a long time customer of CSX.

A flange greaser, Roli. I grew up in Michigan City, Indiana, home of the South Shore. Because of some relatively tight curvatures they had a number of flange greasers. (Or maybe they were there to cut down the noise to make life less noisy for the people who had houses along their street running.) It's been a long time, but I think there was one near the grade crossing where I was a crossing guard in grade school in the late 1950's. One of my fondest childhood memories was their line car slowly approaching that grade crossing after school. By the time they got there I was holding back a large group of kids. The line car stopped short of the roadway and the motorman just waved the kids across the line. You'd never see that today! Cheers from Wisconsin.

The spure is still connected to the main. At least it's not abandoned.

5:55 it's a wheel flange greaser! 😀

Hard to believe that the spur hasn’t been disconnected from the main.

At least the spur is still connected to the main. Hope springs eternal.

I find abandoned turnouts like these very interesting. I explored a similar track in Fullerton California.

This is a treasure trove of archeology. It had so many not oft seen elements laid together close. Almost reminds me of something you'd see on a model train scene; although you get to walk inside it like Beetlejuice or something. This is going to be a RxR-82 classic

Flange luber placed before a curve to prevent premature rail wear. Spent 30 years as a freight conductor/switchman. Have a good day and be careful of the trespassing. railroads really frown on that these days.

If these rails could talk, I can imagine what they would say. Steam. Alco RS3s. U18Bs, wow!

That was an interesting video Roly, there is something strangely magical about abandoned track.

Great video and footage of abandoned spur lines,EMD power and flange greasers to help with friction with the wheels!🛤🚂🇺🇲

Great job finding abandoned trackage !

Interesting video; I like seeing the remnants of past trackage and imagine how it was in their heyday. Thanks for sharing.

6 min mark is a flange greaser used to apply grease to the flanges of rail cars to reduce friction placed before curves normally

Hey Roli don't recognize oils on main lines to spray oil railroad axles ? I am surprised you didn't know this

Amazing 🤩 as always RolRol

~ When you're saying "Green light", the correct term is a "Green Signal." 😉 ...and that box beside the track is a greaser. It greases the rail to prevent friction between the rail and the wheel flanges, cutting down on squealing and rail wear.

Awesome video again. Sad more tracks rusting away.

this is interesting. Florida has a lot of interesting RR stuff

I love that kind of videos ❤thank you. Keep finding more abandoned tracks 😎👍👍

Great job as always 👍

That's the Edward James Olmos Parking Facility. What's up King Babalawo!!

That box with hoses is wheel flange greaser

Rails are a special link to the past because they are affixed to the Earth so it's not just the space that something was in, because that changes every second, it's tanglible and frozen in time.

nice find!

Just to let you know because of the number of fatalities with people crossing the tracks at Brightline, trespassing is now being strictly enforced on both Brightline and CSX tracks. If you are caught, you will likely be arrested not just given a citation. They're trying to cut down on the number of people being killed by trains in South Florida. To avoid that possibility, perhaps you should invest in an inexpensive drone that you can fly over the tracks and zoom in with the video camera to some of the things that you are talking about.

Great vid, Roly!

I think its a defect detector at the side of the railroad ? Fab video. 😊

Flange oiler. I love you r videos!

Wow pretty awesome find especially next to a Bass pro shops can I give you a special shout out in a video

Very cool, thank you for sharing.

Tha was a curve greaser set up. When looking at the date stamp on the rails, please comment on the weight of the rail as well. That too is significant. The wieght listed is in pounds per nominal yard. The mainline is probably 136#. The spur you were exploring was much lighter..

There is a privet crossing behind my shop that is still active so coo to see trains cross it

I couldn't even picture a Bass Pro Shop warehouse getting a box car of something it's the type of place if you get Intermodal containers you're doing well. The company at the end appear to be a steel or pipe distributor which you think heavy bulk items some of it would still go by rail. Interesting little private grade crossing too bad it's.fallen by the Wayside

Judging from the "ergonomic" switch stand lever, the reflectorized banners in good condition on it and the derail stand, and the "Stop - Dismount" sign, this spur has not been disused too many years (or even months). I won't say abandoned, because this spur could still be "in service" just not used often or recently. And, there is the distinct possibility it has already seen its last train.

Track heater

Great video of this spur. In 5:47 looks like some kind of electronic monitoring of the train cars that go by. That is my guess. 👍👍🚂

Very nice Video! 🌿🌵🇮🇳🌵🌿

That big white shaped box on the spur line is called a derailer

Like This Video Keep it coming

That is a flange oiler to reduce wheel wear and reduce rail wear.

Today found cool old rail line behind gomart we we stop to get grass the mine spur known about for years but not were the track the comes off spur turns to the woods gose must plan a trip there because it is 40 mint drive from my house

Thanks to @Jawtooth I know what it is........ A rail greaser or a leaf remover chemical applier

Back in the day probably was used a lot

That is a track oiler There must be a curve nearby. Those are used to lessen wear on the rails

very cool!

6:00 Automatic Flange Greaser with environmental protection aprons.

That's an easy one, it's a track greaser!

Great video, but I would like to have seen the connection from the spur to the active railroad.

If someone owned that line, which someone does, but I mean, like a non railroading person, they should make the tracks stable for a small tender engine to run on

When doing these little investigations, wear a hi-viz vest and a hardhat, people will not look twice ;)

Will you ever explore in other states again?

It's great to see a 2-for-1 special in this video (abandon crossing and a tri-rail passing by). At 6:02 I'm going to take a stab and say could those be some detective system?

I have eaten at that Bass Pro shop. And left very full.

A Grease Flange 5:51, It Keeps the Wheels greased; But, Don't step in that stuff, it's Worse than Dog Poop to Remove

The mat is for grease the wheels

The device is a flange lubricator.

Why the Track goes through a Parking Lot? is something I just can't Explain.....

Stay off the right of way. Use the zoom function of the camera.

automatic flange greaser

Always sad to see this. Rail is the way to go.

I'll guess that rail-line hasn't see much action since Ronnald Reagan or George HW Bush Adminstration. I notice in my old neighborhood in NE Philadelphia. Amtrak and CSX must torn up the old Stone Containers spur where they shipped and received cardboard boxes and paper bags used by retail stores.

he railroy how are you doing it's a while ago with my last reaction but i m back at the table!

very rusty but not quite derilict

It’s a track greaser. Never get near it.

csx is still kinda dead down there as far as getting more trafic

Too bad the spur is short otherwise one of those pedal cars would be cool on it

looks flang oiler .spur rail date

Flange Greaser

Track greaser!!!

Rail greaser

I all of a sudden don't want that bass pro shop to be a bass pro shop