It's wintertime on the Florida S-Line. Trains are fewer right now, so we have to get on the road and hunt 'em down. Plus, I learn a few things on this trip including some facts about the old Cross-Florida Barge Canal.
Ya know Dan, couldn't get any better than spending the day with your son, railing and eating a good campfire meal. Enjoy these times together! Take care!
Yep, cooking the beans while they’re still in the can is genius to avoid lugging around heavy and bulky pots and pans, too bad it’s kind of a slow process on low heat to avoid catching the label on fire and subsequently tainting your own beans with whatever noxious fumes would be produced from the label burning up.
Danny, your channel is without peer, no one else comes close to the quality videography and outstanding commentary you give us with every video.I wish that you could post more often, but I settle for whatever and whenever you post. Have a great 2023! Rich
Another spectacular video Danny! Its always a great day when you post a new video for us railfans. Those steaks looked delicious and figured they had to be quite tasty! Thanks again for sharing your videos with us along with your PRICELESS time and effort! Cheers from Delmar, Delaware.
Danny there nothing more important than spending as much time with your child and building a meomery together and what a beautiful picture having camp out with you and you son together at Lake lockloosa !!!!! Priceless
What a great video! Seeing the old Seaboard structures still in use brought a smile to my face. And you drove through parts of Florida the remind me of my youth there and what I loved about the State. Cooking, road trip, canal and dam history, and trains. This video had it all 🙂
Often wonder 🤔 how many of the Crew Members recognize when the “Distant Signal” man is out monitoring their trains on the High Iron ? My Guess is Yes. 👍🙏
I'd always give Danny an extra toot on the whistle. I usually forgot he was listening on the scanner until it was too late. Some of the crews remember in time and say hello
Just a happy accident, but I was cooking a steak (ribeye, my favorite cut) when I stumbled on this episode. Seared in a cast iron pan and finished in a 500° oven. I was biting into my steak just about the time your supper was interrupted by the CSX train at Lochloosa. Excellent show as always, Danny. For some reason I didn't associate a barge canal with Florida, when I read the title. Like you, I learned something new. I initially thought you might have ranged far afield to the CSX, ex-Conrail, ex-Penn Central, nee-New York Central Mohawk Subdivision along the NYS Barge Canal. Of course, there would be no outdoor grilling of steaks there in the winter. You might lose the camp stove in a snow drift. PS. Rob is correct. Pepper after cooking.
The potash hoppers originate from where I live in the Canadian Province of Saskatchewan…the Potash Corp one were old Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan which was sold to Mosaic a few years ago now…it is one of our provinces biggest exports next to grain and Pulse crops…Love the channel Danny and keep up the great work!!!
Love when you put the detailed address locations in. Being from Australia means I'll never visit these spots but I enjoy following your trips virtually via Google Earth. Thanks for the content.
Really nice to see your son and you having a great time together. Doesn't get much better for father and son but to spend time railfanning (and marifanning) together!
As a third generation Floridian, I appreciate the look at the Barge Canal and all. My grandpa was an ACL supervisor out of Ocala in the 40s and 50s. I enjoy the railroad stories and views.
Danny, I worked at Channel 13 in the mid to late 1980s in the production department. Worked with Richard Bozeman, Eric Allen, Dave Markwood on Ernie Lee’s Breakfast Beat. I never knew of your train interest and trainfanning. I’m a train buff, too, I enjoy your videos and saw this one. My grandfather operated huge draglines like those found in the phosphate mines. He lost his life digging the Cross Florida Barge Canal in 1969. This video tells me quite a bit of that area of Florida. You really do an outstanding job with your videos. Keep up the good work. Lane Stidham 6/6/2024 2040…
Hi Lane!! Man!!! I certainly remember all those names and worked with them all. Bozeman, Pacifico, Grayson, Paul, Benedict, Macholtz, Kirby. There were dozens of them. Plus all the names from News I worked with. That's why I loved being in Promotion. You literally worked with everyone in the station sooner or later. I didn't have the interest in trains back then that I do now. I was all about TV back then. Coming from small Tallahassee, I was enamored of all that big-city talent and capability. I guess that's why I never left. Thanks for your kind compliments.
I live within a few miles of The Island. I knew of the bridge supports for many years but never knew it has been made into a "park" until earlier this week. It is now on my go-to list. See you in Folkston!
There is a reason that everybody else wants to be like you Danny. Nobody else even comes close. "The master of the high iron". Nuff said. Mark McGowan is a retired SP and UP signalman in Tehachapi of all places. He will tell you straight up, he knows tracks, he don't know crap about running trains. Between you two, and what I learned 60 years ago in my REA days, I think that is a pretty good education. One Grampa was an REA agent, The other was a roofer. I was always packing freight, or packing shingles. But I miss them both greatly.
You should check out some other infrastructure related to the unfinished barge canal near Fort McCoy on CR 316. There is a high-level bridge over the Ocklawaha River and surrounding woods. There is even a completed fender system under the bridge at the point where the canal was intended to pass under. Also, on the gulf coast near Inglis there is another completed section of canal and locks. US 19 (as opposed to SR 19 shown in the video) crosses the canal near the locks.
Man, you make this look like so much fun; driving around Florida, seeing new places, finding little known history, and eating a camp meal out int the fresh air. Sounds like just the sort of thing to do on a day off.
Mr. Harmon, I watch your video all the time. Among all the videos that I have watched, yours are the best; the train symbols, explanations, and added aspects are great.
Just when I thought today couldn't get any better, I open up RU-vid and lo and behold there's a new video Danny Harmon video. That was the cherry on top 🍨
I would like to make a request that you do a video on why a train derails and what can be done to stop them. I think that all your viewers would enjoy this video
Thanks Danny. Reminds me of some memorable father and son days out with trains that I have enjoyed with my own son, sadly too few anymore as we live far apart but close at heart!😂
Oh my, what a great video. A GREAT travel log, with an Executive Hobo meal (looked fantastic), and several train videos to boot. Keep those Florida train shots coming. Thanks for a great time watching.
Woke up this cold March morning, looked on my Facebook and saw that you posted a new video.. I was so excited but I wanted to save it until tonight to watch it. You made my day. Thank you Danny…
Thank you for this combination video from two of your trips on the Florida S-Line in January and February 2023, Danny. You caught some nice manifest trains with a variety of freight cars on them. The B207 phosphate train to BNSF's Clyde Yard in Cicero, Illinois will either stay together to go out to some point on the BNSF in the agricultural areas of the Midwest or be broken down at Clyde Yard to go all over the MIdwest to be used to fertilize America's farmlands. Thank you for the information about the Cross-Florida Barge Canal. I had never heard of that project. I presume that the Cross-Florida Barge Canal was put forward in the Depression Era of the 1930s as a way of putting people to work.
Danny, when you started to drive into the Rodehever Boy's Ranch, I got a nostalgic twinge since I used to fire cannon at "them Yankee boys" during the annual Civil War re-enactment there every year. And when you started talking about the Cross Florida Barge Canal, I thought, "Hey, I ought to tell Danny about the four bridge pillars near the Marion County Sheriff's substation in Santos...but nope, you already knew they were there! The Ocala Jeep Club met there every month when I lived in Florida and one of the other members told me that when they abandoned the canal project, they buried all sorts of equipment there in what is now those woods. He said, if you had a metal detector, it'd never stop beeping! That's another great video, Danny, keep 'em coming!
Another great video Mr Harmon. I am a Locomotive Engineer for Amtrak and I am looking to bid into Miami from the cold north of Ohio within the next few weeks and I hope to see you out there on the "high iron." I also like to thank you for your "How To Read CSX Signals" series. They helped me to understand and study for my signal exams for both NS and CSX when I transferred to Toledo from Denver, and now looking forward to the warm weather of south Florida.
Great trip with your son. Lucky man, mine has no interest in trains. Yes like yourself I try to bring some food and if the weather is good, cook it trackside. Depending on where, I've had some interesting looks from passersby. Adding a side trip with some history just seems to fit right in with railfanning. Great one Danny and he's right about the pepper !
Thanks Steve. Well, Rob doesn't have any interest in trains either, but he does love road trips so if I combine a side excursion into a railfanning day he's all in.
Another fantastic video! I love how you take what would otherwise be just another day railfanning and turn it into interesting subjects. The barge canal section was great! I've seen those piers on 301 many times and it never occurred to me it was for the canal.
Bushes bean are my only beans I enjoy. I never did steak without putting pepper on in the beginning but I will try waiting till servicing to put it on. Oh yeah great train vids as always. Thank you
This was a fantastic video and great timing too as it's about the Fitzgerald sub which was just released for Run 8 Train Simulator. This gave some great perspective to parts of that route.
Good morning Danny it's your real fan from Jacksonville that lives in Idaho I'm in the hospital with covid and pneumonia danny keep CSX in line and I wish you and your family the safe through all of this I can't wait to get home and then enjoy your videos I hope your family stay safe and healthy
Cooking with Danny: The Executive Hobo with Shrimp Nice video! Especially loved that history lesson about the lock. These are the only videos in school I actually take notes of, everything else is thrown out of my head in 3 seconds lol
I always look forward to your videos. Always edited so well. Glad the steak was good and your correct, it's hard to beat a steak cooked on the grill and trains and having your son there had to make it even better.
Beautiful to see Potash Corp. cars on the rails going south. Also good to see more auto racks on the move too as it's time to see more cars in the lots.
What a great video. I wish I could have been there with you. Thanks for your time. Pete in South Carolina, ten minutes from the oldest rail road junction in the world. Branchville, S.C.
