Lakeland, Winter Haven, Ocala & Vitis Sept 2013

[@Eduardomd54]

Great videos, sound , explanations and comments by you ; and NO MUSIC !!! Thank you

[@cdsmrailaviation1099]

As someone from Britain, this is such great insight into how US trains operate and run, love your videos and great discovering the older stuff too!

[@charlesbutler4646]

The best rail fan show on Utube. I really enjoy the commentary and info, it adds so much to the visuals. Excellent quality work.

[@bobparsons77]

Yup..watching at 3am!!

[@Bellman84]

I could watch your videos all day. Another great video. Thank You Danny. Makes me kind of miss Central Florida.

[@shnimmuc]

Danny, great informative video and wonderful photography. I am new to this, and I learning a great deal. Thank you. Robert

[@Daddymouse-ny9cz]

I'm a little late to this one, but I just want to say THANKS Danny. Love your well done videos, particularly the before and after shots. Keep up the good work!

[@firecaptain5405]

Great video as always Danny. Wildwood coming along swiftly, can't wait to see the completion.

[@EvilDarkCow]

Great video, Danny! I love how you narrate your videos. I really feel like I'm there with you.

[@southernsignalfilms4157]

Matt Reeves *sees KOTH* me: ahh I see you are a man of culture.

[@michaelnacino5420]

Love the videos, I could also watch these for hours! Thanks Danny!!!!!

[@mustanger041]

I could watch your vids all day

[@distantsignal]

Thanks very much, Chris.I plan to make more this Spring.Regards,DH

[@scottdowney4865]

Distant Signal I just discovered your channel. I too could watch your videos all day. My Dad was with Sourhern for 30+ years and retired in '84, two years after the merger with Norfolk and Western.

[@Mike-tg7dj]

I hear that! I reminds me of when I was a kid and I'd watch passing trains at my Aunt Thelma's house on the former N. C, & St. Louis sub. It ran right in front of her house. I use to pretend I was a dispatcher sending out trains. CSX runs it now and the block signals are gone. Sadly so is my Aunt Thelma but every memory I have is a good one.

[@urarakastar6987]

chris i Did XD

[@MBTAMoreRailfan]

Sometimes I do

[@Eduardomd54]

Great sound of de - acceleration motor in 12:19 minute ! Very enjoyable sound. Music for my ears.

[@troystrane]

Another great video, Danny! Florida sure has changed dramatically since I railfanned CSX east of Tampa in the late 80s. It's really turned into a busy rail hub and hotspot. Too bad the action doesn't extend itself south to the Fort Myers area. I visit far South Florida and some old friends down there annually.

[@Scolagiaco1]

First Class video Danny, always a pleasure!!! You da' man !!!!! Great Job!

[@ThEsHeEn117]

I remember seeing "dirty dirt" unit gondola trains when I was younger. Now, I see gondola trains all the time full of pipe loads from Youngstown, OH. Awesome video Danny!

[@amtrakatsfnyc]

Dan, Thanks for sharing some great video. Yes, things sure have changed since the SCL days.

[@ghostengineer]

hi danny great stuff and greetings from Dania station which is where I just watched this video. this yankee is heading back home to Philly. I had a great week fanning in Florida.

[@Gracebeliever077]

Great work Danny! Thanks for sharing!

[@distantsignal]

Thanks David. Yeah, the changes are amazing. I was at Baldwin yesterday. Doesn't look like the same place. DH

[@SEABOARDSYSTEMfan]

Thanks for showing the "before and after" shots of the Winter Haven area; amazing how many things have changed. Looks like CSX is making the "S" Line into a first class railroad. Looking forward to the next adventure!

[@jacobhill9923]

I like when you film trains. You film from different angles throughout the train

[@CSXtarell21]

great video danny! theres also another gondola train like this that is K929,it runs the brooksville sub

[@BBT609]

Very disappointed that the Winter Haven DD is gone but heard it up near the Amtrak station. But still one amazing video!

[@Steve-xf4uv]

Hadn't seen this one. Great shots in amazing weather. You sure get out there early !

[@TolgaEastCoast]

Awesome video, Danny. Nice catches overall; I remember fondly that K724 when it came out as K978 on the Lehigh Spur in Miami. And about the horns on those MACs.... that's one of my favorite types, the Nathan K5LLA. I fondly remember that catch in Plant City I made of 188 with a MAC leading. And with regards to that change in Winter Haven, no wonder there was a DD installed by the Amtrak Station at 825.5.

[@trainman0771]

As Always ! Great video! Thanks for sharing your fine footage!

[@distantsignal]

Thanks! Yes, we got a number of a pipe gon loads down here back in the early 2000's.

[@arthurschipper8906]

Just knocking through some distant signal content that i haven't seen. It doesn't disappoint.

[@FishplateFilms]

Another polished and informative video Danny! Great catches and lovely work as usual, ..keep those pants clean...LOL Cheers Gregg

[@1traintracker]

Thanks for sharing another great video, Danny.

[@AmJaxineer]

Not that I know of. Seems it started on wide cab SD60/70 locos. Also, keep in mind that an approach limited signal does not necessarily mean that the train will take a 45 mile-per-hour diversion movement at the next signal. The railroad uses this signal also to slow trains down.

[@elvisbest3213]

you do the best videos out there amazingly done sir thank u

[@distantsignal]

Thanks very much! Have a safe trip home. DH

[@rca34482]

Interesting that the meets at Ocala and Wildwood involved left hand running on double track. The #2 track in many cases is the preferred former single track with fewer turnouts to negotiate for SBs.

[@firemedicMSU]

Another excellent entry Danny! Looks like construction is booming down there

[@billm001]

Great job again Danny. I would love for you one day cover action on the CSX branch east out of Hawthorne, FL to Keuka Mines.

[@Spee_Der]

That was very nicely done Dan. Thank you.....

[@legs4ever1]

another great video n very informative thanks, coming to new port richy the end of january would love to meet you

[@CSXYN4]

Awesome video as always! I know that engineer, when you filmed the crew change, i got to talk to him at a wildwood crew change!

[@jacobhill9923]

I think shooting from different angles when a train is going by makes it more exciting

[@tommy4trains]

nice video!!! but wow a quincidence! that new winter haven intermodal center that's due to open may 2014 will open around the SAME time as the new sunrail commuter line in Orlando on the A line!

[@FloridaTrainKid]

Great stuff, Danny. K845 actually takes the long way to New Orleans via Manchester and Montgomery.

[@shariys1]

5:10 I couldn't figure out why that corner looked so naked, until I took a good close look over there. This was 4 1/2 years ago. That was before the cell tower went in! They might have actually torn down a house to build that. The signals are newer, too. I live a half mile from there, and those guys sound like they're coming thru my front yard 24-7, but I love it! 5:59 I cross this twice a day going to and from work. Those extremely loud horns might have something to do with the fact that this is now a no-horn crossing. I hate those 😡😠. But I see the roadside shrine was there even then, so I guess we can't blame the lack of horns for that one!

[@AftmastRail]

SD70MAC's have a sticker inside stating "Whisper Cab," but crew members have been known to change it to "Thunder Cab," due to the loudness of the locomotive and it's horn. My favorite type of locomotive.

[@SuperStarRendon]

As always great video clean and super sharp.

[@ahgfl007]

Ah those loud horns on the SD70"s, according to what I could find this is due to a few changes. CSX and NS may have noticed, new castings of K5LA horns, known as Third Generation Micro Precision K5LA's, have been popping up in recent months. As far as I've heard, this is to be one of three horns that all units on CSX and NS are to be equipped with by the end of the year to meet FRA requirements. The other two horns that are FRA-approved are the K5HLL (Deep GEVO horns) and K5LLA's (SD70ACe/M-2/MAC "Screamers").

[@DpLfilms]

The label on the sides of the CSXT 4777 is actually SD70AC

[@agentadq]

Excellent video as always Danny!

[@CHQRails]

Hey, when are you coming to the North East? Western NY gets over 70 trains on a Thursday, including a few daily Amtraks, along with CSX and NS running parallel.

[@AmericanSteelProductions]

These are beautiful stretches of track man

[@stevepowsinger733]

I can’t imagine how you know what train is what and what, when they’re coming through all those signals plus some history. If I tried I’d probably be sitting their waiting for hours.

[@CSX500]

969 has a very rare K5HLA, only around 9 on locomotives. Great Early Fall Catches!

[@johnpapp92]

Approach limited means proceed not exceeding limited speed. Could be used to replace advanced approach which the seaboard is starting to do. Most cases it means that the next signal is showing a limited approach or limited clear to diverge. Just trying to help. -John

[@ahgfl007]

Danny FYI, they back into New Orleans station and into Denver as well Just in case you decide to take a train trip into either of those two places.

[@stevenmichael2845]

It seems like 4777 likes to show up in videos all over KZbin! I saw it about 6 months ago while on a bike ride. Great video.

[@EWLR89]

Nice video Danny! I love your videos with the commentary and the history tidbits. I was thinking of doing a video of the history of railroads in my area with some railfan footage of what's there now, some photos of what there then, track diagrams (maybe), and commentary. Do you have any advice?

[@AmJaxineer]

Danny, the SD70 FLACs (flared macs) have such loud horns because they do not have the restrictor plates that GE's do.

[@AliceInChains243]

Disregard, I just watched that segment again and realized you stated that the juice block comes off of Q141, meaning that the Q740/741 symbol is still abolished on northern rails, I guess I wasn't paying as much attention as I thought I was hehe.

[@distantsignal]

I knew it was something mechanical. But do other EMD's like the SD-40's and GP-39's not have restrictor plates, either?

[@1956tmo]

Love your reporting on trains

[@AliceInChains243]

Another great pieces on the true goings-on of fanning. Who needs crazy motive power when there's a trackside story to tell? Also, how long has the Q741 been back? And and it safe to assume that it's loaded counterpart Q740 is back in the symbol system as well?

[@maryyoungblood8550]

In Arizona October is still summer!

[@mflynn2009]

Luv your vids and the info. I live in a very interesting area along the BNSF just outside of Chicago I wish our rail fan you tubers would copy your style.

[@DTD110865]

I still remember when Amtrak ran on the Wildwood Subdivision.

[@ianhoffman19]

At 11:33, is that crossing at Messick Road? I found it on Google Maps. If you look it up, there is a CSX train approaching the crossing.

[@charlesdell2864]

Love viewing your video's. Not only are they great, but the narration, makes them all the better. Where are the video's taken, I mean which state, I might of missed it.

[@distantsignal]

Gary Plastek Thanks Gary. I shot the Streamliners series in North Carolina, but most all the rest is in Florida, where I live.DH

[@mattmills1108]

Speaking of West Virginia I live there csx go to my property or farm every day is this awesome

[@distantsignal]

I like 'em all. I don't much care what kind of engine it is. The newer the better but I don't care which model. DH

[@distantsignal]

Really? Why would it do that?

[@AliceInChains243]

But it's really a MAC, CSX has just developed their own weird locomotive classing system just like UP, only not quite as outlandish. An SD70AC is to an SD70MAC just like a CW44AH is to an AC4400CW, ect.

[@MrKfq269]

At 8:27 you mentioned "ballast run". I've heard this term used in other rail vids. What does "ballast" mean in rail terms? Is it just a load of stone? Thanks.

[@Morbid_Railfan]

MrKfq269 ballast are the rocks underneath the tracks. For example when you walk along the tracks, there are rocks between the ties. All that rock is called ballast.

[@MrKfq269]

@@Morbid_Railfan thank you.

[@22RailProductions]

Great Video Danny!!!

[@Daytonohrailfan]

what kind of power you like to see on the trains the newer engines or the older ones like the sd50s

[@DpLfilms]

Whatever, actually on CSXT 708, the ES44AC they labeled it as a CW44AH! But on every other 700 series CSX unit I've seen they say ES44AH

[@jaberosier9853]

Dam I wish were still getting CSX traffic through Tallahassee, FL.

[@traindude32]

Are you going to do any Sun Rail railfanning in Downtown Orlando when they're complete with the Downtown station by the LYNX bus terminal?

[@curtnicholson7771]

Danny due you happen to know what the refer units run on on the juice train, diesel or propane? Nice video!

[@RealJeep]

I have never seen an all gondola train either over a few cars long and never one full of aggregate. I thought that's what hopper cars were for? There has to be a story behind how that all came about...

[@bhigdaddymark]

EXCELLENT video!

[@westernpacific333]

another great one

[@OrlandoRailfan]

Great video, as always!

[@curtnicholson7771]

Any idea where all that fine gravel is going to?

[@Slv2therhythm]

Another great video!

[@TrainsForever]

I swear you’ve seen CSX 7737 in another video. I’m not sure which video but it’s in one

[@amjkodaz]

Great video Danny

[@Brian-StarGazer-77]

You should do another video on this now its 2020

[@19MrLee]

My dad works at the winston yard!!!!! He picks up the crew in the yard and takes them to their next train

[@distantsignal]

Very cool. Tell him hello for me!

[@2005GLI]

another great video!

[@TolgaEastCoast]

Probably the way crews are laid out.

[@yardlimit8695]

danny, on a Q741 with all empties, does CSX charge tropicana for the return of the cars or is there no charge, or just how do they work it out, thanks,

[@interstate1335]

4:34-4:36 not much “train” this morning.So he’s moving along

[@randallbyrd1973]

Awesome video

[@railfanmaximstill7279]

10:06 K3LA on a CSX AC4400CW

[@peckelhaze6934]

Great video.

[@kingcharles8031]

HI, Where is CFLC on the CSX Lines ? You have update employee timetable with CFLC. Thanks!

[@TheCanadianRS]

someone has to. uh up the rest of the CP SD70MACs sitting in our train yard (Logan yard) maybe CSX?

[@RailfanDaniel1997]

NICE VIDEOS!!!

[@JimmySand9]

1:07 I thought I got a text there for a second, but my phone's still dark. What the...

[@305ayeee]

what is a "ballast train?" Is just taking cars from one yard to another to even put car distribution?

[@distantsignal]

Ballast is the rock used on railroad tracks to hold the ties and rails in place and to enable drainage. Small rocks, usually granite, 2 to 3 inches in size. Special hopper trains carry and distribute the rocks along the tracks.

[@305ayeee]

Distant Signal ahhh, see I never knew the official name. I just called it the rock that holds the rails in place

[@HyperActive7]

Damn, CSX is really ramping up its Florida service sector. They really want to make a statement!

[@MrJarrod1989]

Was that your phone I hear in the video lol