My Latest CSX Videos on YouTube

Friends;

Here are the links to the videos from my latest trip to Central Florida last Monday, one of the coldest days on record for this part of the country - 31ºF in Naples when I left at 4:45 AM and 25ºF in Bushnell when I arrived at 7:30. It actually warmed up to a comfy high of 41ºF while I was in Plant City. Now this is Florida railfanning at its finest.

As always, comments and corrections are welcomed.

Enjoy…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxaGZyvd5_4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnYY_I6ly4c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WUgk4bC3qU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjalMNt1bsk

Ted: Interesting videos, thanks for sharing. Couple of questions/comments.

Video III-- Do not thnk I have ever seen RB&BB’s in a single train with that manycars; I counted 42 passsenger cars and 19 equipment flats ( If my count was close).

Video IV-- The cars shown, hopper cars ( ?) or are they gondolas(?) are they meant to be dumped on a roaery dumper? The door arangement (seemed to be designed in a style that would deposit to the rail-side, rather than in a thru the rails application.) I had not seen that specific designed car bottom style before.

Around here most of the hoppers are a bottom discharge design. You know BNSF ‘grain worms’ (solid cylindrical BNSF brown hopper cars)are pretty common as are full hopper trains.

Thanks for the comment, Sam. Some of those “passenger” cars are used to transport the elephants. They’re the ones on the head end.

Those are Trinity 4,323 Cubic Foot Aluminum (R)apid (D)ischarge (L)ongitudinal Hoppers:

http://www.trinityrail.com/railcars/coal/pdfs/Web%20RDL%20Spec.pdf