@@timmcquaig711 Yes Auto Train would have gone through Ocala but it would have been dark by the time they got there. Also you'd be surprised how many of us Train crewmen watch Danny's videos. They are more educational than most topics CSX can teach.
I've never understood those "impatient drivers." Every time I get stopped by a train at a crossing (which is rare for me), I get as excited as a kid in a candy store. Keep up the great work!
Most people aren't really into trains, though, and more and more people have a "got places to go, things to do!" attitude. A few count the number of cars, but fewer even think about what it's carrying or where the thing is going. If they see a mail train, they may not even realize that their Amazon order from last night may be inside one of those containers.
That always makes my day, I have a train track on the other side of field from, probably half a mile away, I get to watch them from my kitchen until the farmers plant corn there
Yeah. I've seen drivers go around gates with some detrimental results because of it. I lived in one town, where this was quite common. I was first in line and the gates went down and didn't care. Some lady in her fancy Jaguar decided it was too much to wait for the train, a local doing about 15 mph, to come along because he just pulled out of the industrial park. She went around me and got clipped. Her car andwas pushed down the tracks while taking out line side stuff all the way. No one was hurt, but her car was pretty mangled! This crossing has seen other incidents as well due to the commuter station nearby. Idiots see the train stopped at the station and go around the gates rather than wait a minute for the gates to raise up which they do if the train just pulled in. Yet again another fancy car driver was more interested in his appointment and scooted around the gates just as the commuter train started to move. No one was injured this time either, but this cost him his car and insurance bigly.
Some interesting and unusual (for me at least) sightings: Amtrak locomotives running tail-to-tail like most freight locos but unlike passenger locos there and here in Canada (Via Rail), and then the Amtrak train pulling auto-racks at the end! Great catches Danny! Thanks.
Another outstanding video Danny! A small tip for you about trains and combining them... Hunter Harrison's philosophy was why run one train when you can combine them and run 2? Here, train 119 was a mixed manifest out of Montreal. 651, empty ethanol came up from Albany. It had to go through the yard in Montreal, so, Hunter had them combined to save time, wages and shareholder money. They were then split in Winnipeg when the manifest kept heading West and the empty ethanol went South back to the fields to be filled back up.
Hello from Cornwall Pennsylvania. Great job as always. Not only do I appreciate your videography, Danny, but I also enjoy the history lessons as well. Way back when (1950s) I followed the Florida East Coast, even before and during the Ed Ball era and the bitter strike which ultimately made the FEC so unique among Class I railroads. But my knowledge of FL railroads is piddling next to yours so....Many thanks as always. Thanks also for your personal email response to my message. I’ll be back to you soon. I headed north from visiting my family in FL on 3/16, boarding #92 at Winter Park that Monday, in the early evening. That was the day all the Chinese Virus restrictions kicked in big time, and the sleepers were deserted. My wife and I each in a Roomette and just one other couple occupied in the entire car. When we arrived at 30th St. on time (!) Tuesday afternoon at rush hour, we were literally the ONLY living souls in the massive train hall there, except for 2 Amtrak ushers. Talk about eerie!! We made a quick connection to our Keystone Corridor train to the Lancaster area and home. We were very lucky. The nest day the Keystone Corridor trains were cancelled. They’re still not running as of now. Thank you for your fine channel and the personal contact. Both are much appreciated. Stay safe and healthy. Happy Easter. We’re doing our Easter family get-together by teleconference. Sad but true. CAS.
Hi Charles. Sounds like you had a nice ride. I would have loved having a sleeper car all to ourselves, but it would have been a little lackluster not meeting any other passengers on the train. That's one of my favorite parts of train travel. We're doing the sam thing for Easter. My wife I I will be on a Zoom with our kids and other relatives call sometime today.. It sure ain't the same. Thanks very much and Happy Easter to you. Danny
I'm a feeder driver for UPS, in the chicago area. (I go to lots of railyards, Norfolk southern, CSX, BNSF) we use CSX shipping containers, along with EMHU and also our UPSU yellow shipping containers. UPS also tries to put loads less then 300 miles on a truck, no point bothering with the railyard when time can be cut in half.
Greetings from Buffalo NY. Home of CSX Walden Yard 6, a junkyard for old rail cars, adjacent to an uncoupling yard on Broadway which has fascinated me from a young age. As you get closer to Harlem Rd, the loading yard for shipping containers and automobile haulers sits next to several lines, including a pair of unused spur lines running to commercial properties. If you ever find yourself up this way, it is prime viewing!
Always full of good info. One thing I've wondered...why do some engines have amber strobes on the roof (like the one at 11:15-11:30) and others don't...when are they used? Switching? Industry? On certain lines? Might be a good topic for covering in another video, too, though I'll welcome a reply here. PS: I like the longer length here; never can get too much of Distant Signal productions and DH!
Strobes are often indicative of Remote Control power. They can only be operated by Remote in a designated RCO zone though so you'll never see it in RCO mode outside of a yard or plant.
You know, for once, i would love to know why someone would give these videos a thumbs down? These videos are on-point! EVERY one of them... continue the good work DH.
Awesome video Danny! Nice mix of information and trains. Now one thing, the Portsmouth Sub, which spurred out of Norlina NC, originates in Weldon not Richmond. It's a fun piece of railroad all things considered.
That was alot of information about this line. I often wonder what kind of education these engineers and conductors have to experience before that get out on the rails. Great video Danny. Stay safe.
Typically you start as a brakeman which is about 100 hours on the rails. Conductor is an additional 100 hours on the rails plus classroom. Engineer is 200 hours throttle time. At least on the RR I work on.
For CSX, Conductor trainees get 2 weeks of rules and procedures training followed by 4 weeks of job shadowing. If the trainee is ready by then they will get cut loose and be given a job as a conductor. Most of my cubs got a second four week period so they could be ready, if they were green coming in. Engineers are usually conductors that have applied for an opening and were selected. Training as an engineer requires a rules and procedures class followed by 160 hours as a student engineer. Once they have completed this, they get a ride-along with a DSLE to show they are knowledgeable not only in the ability to handle the train but also that they know their territory. A stop test is performed, usually with a great big banner across the track that reads "STOP - Obstruction in Track" and it's placed somewhere unexpected, somewhere that they are not going more than 20 mph and they generally have enough time to see it and stop. If they can do all of these correctly, they are cut loose as an engineer.
This is quite a gift for all of us out here in lock down Danny. Thank you so much for your time shooting, cutting, recording and mixing. You know all that production value is NEVER wasted on a guy like me. When all of this virus nonsense is over we will defiantly see you in out there on the" High Iron." Be safe my friend.
Great informative video as usual. Your comment about the flip-top hoppers and how they were emptied reminded me of my first year at Dupont Chemicals in LaPorte Tx. One of the "general helper" jobs was to climb into the gondola which had been full of cliche' and shovel out the remaining cliche' so Mr. Dupont didn't pay for anything he didn't get. The hot Texas sun sure made that day long. Good memories just the same. Thanks for the "way back" memory, and keep the video's coming but stay safe from Covid-19.
Danny, enjoyed this video immensely thus also really like the CSX crews having a great rapport with you by acknowledging when they see you, thats great 👍.One of the top notch rail fanners,that be you Danny. You & your family take care & be healthy & you be safe along the rails. 😎👍👍👍🛤🚂
Greetings from New Jersey. The one positive thing about the internet - and there aren't many - are videos like these that you and so many others create and upload. Sometimes I enjoy the straight trains passing the camera videos that so many put out - and then there are those that are informative as well. Yours are informative, with a sprinkle of drama via your great narration. Looking forward to your next one. Everyone, stay safe.
Danny, you have me dumbfounded!! The SCL timetable you showed up close at 07:12 was from my hometown of Franklin, VA. WOW we've hit the big time!!! Of all the tables and locations you could have talked about you chose a little corner of southeast VA and northeast North Carolina. Sure had the memories flooding back of the days I watched the SCL moves around town and the Union Camp paper mill. The Norfolk Franklin & Danville (NF&D) went past our house so to see the SCL meant a short bicycle ride to the other side of town to a friends house were he lived by the SCL. Love the videos!!
Ha! Thanks so much Alex. Yes, I have all those old SCL timetables. Well maybe not all, but I have one from each division. The SCL era was certainly a great time to be a young railfan.
In the early 80's - after CSX Corporation was formed but before CSX Transportation was created to operate the entirety of the CSX properties my work group occupied cubicle space adjacent to the Operations Planning Department of Chessie System. Operations Planning KNEW that Centralized Dispatching was going to happen and the ALL tracks/milepost had to be uniquely identified so that computer systems could know what was being accessed. Chessie System personnel assigned the Milepost designations for Chessie System Trackage; Seaboard personnel assigned the Milepost designations for their portion of the railroad. In general - B&O trackage starts with a B; C&O starts with a C, ACL trackage starts with a A, SAL trackage starts with a S, for some reason L&N trackage was given a numerical ZERO as a prefix. Others have been incorporated over time such as the RF&P when it became a part of CSX was assigned CFP as their Milepost designation. YMMV!
Another great video Mr. Harmon. Thank you for the time you take to make such great, interesting, and informative videos. I look forward to meeting you in person some day. Keep up the great work and stay safe.
Great clip, Danny! I love the long ones! So neat to hear your name called out by the train crew, respecting your long-standing passion for all things rail. Man, you are such a cool dude! Keep it up; I gobble up everything you post!
Hi Danny, thanks for the very interesting video on route labeling, the history of some route segments and the rerouting of the Auto Train. Always fun to see and hear your railfanning adventures. - Dean from Minnesota
Great video as always, Danny. While I love to hear the details and things about the railroad, I also really like to hear your little stories and things like what you had for lunch that day. I think it gives your videos a bit of personality, and I know you didn't go hungry that day! Keep up the great work!
What a great video Danny. Incredible footage. It was so nice to hear your voice again. So calming and takes me away from all the troubles in our world today. Be safe and keep up your fantastic videos.
Great video. Of late your videos have been what has kept me busy during this time of the covid-19 pandemic I think I've watched all of them. Keep going and stay safe.
I like the fact that you don't do excessive 'panning' when it comes to your video's. Most people just prefer to cut off their video's after the locomotives pass. Today i saw my first ever CSX Phosphate hoppers (8 minute mark) and it was on this video, can't wait for a manufacturer to release them in either N or Ho Scale. I'd be buying a bunch!!!
Thanks Patrick. While I like locomotives very much, they're not the only thing that interests me about railroading. I like the actual operations and business of railroads. If you spend a day just looking for engines or a single engine, you miss a lot of other stuff.
I've been subscribed for quite awhile and get notified when you put up another video. I've been a train nut since I was a young kid. I'm also happy to see old steam engines brought back to life, and the best one of all is the Union Pacific #4014 'Big Boy'. I do have an HO scale Rivarossi 'Big Boy' #4001.
Well what a pleasant surprise this morning, plus I will say Good Morning Danny! It must make you feel great to hear an Engineer say 👋🏻👋🏻. You always seem to come up with new and interesting topics, and that Auto-train catch was top shelf. Thank You! Please keep yourself and family safe during this time.
Nice catches! I enjoy learning about railroad prefixes and what they are about! I also like the Amtrak Auto Train a lot and also enjoy the narration a lot! Really nice!
Sir, I've been binging on your videos all night. Excellent videography and narration. You'd make an excellent television news reporter or TV news magazine correspondent.
@@distantsignal It's been my pleasure. I made a comment on another of your videos about a MaxTrac shown in it. Is that one of your radios? Just noticing it said channel "66". Not a lot out there with the 99 channel modified logic boards.
Yeah, I had that done around 2002 to that MaxTrac. I usually only ran the scan list with 4 or 5 channels though. It was too slow to do 'em all. I sold it in '05 for a CDM-1550 which I've used up 'til now. When I get my truck back from the shop I'm installing a new Kenwood NX5700. Looking forward to that.
WOW, what a great surprise towards the end of the video, I would have loved to witness that. Im glad this was a longer video, great job BTW. Watching it does make me miss your wonderful state of Florida though, we were headed there at the end of this month again, but.........hopefully this fall things will get better. PLEASE, Stay Safe out there, wherever you go, we don't want anything to happen to our favorite railfan.
So nice to see your video this morning Danny! It's been a while and we missed ya! One of the lines not mentioned here was the old Wildwood to Orlando route which was the SX line. More than half of the route is gone now, the remaining being the branch line between Tavares and Orlando. I remember as a kid, seeing trains through Leesburg and the old bridges and railbed that connected Leesburg to Tavares. But I never got to see a train run the distance. Very cool though and with your explanation of the lines being in alphabetical order it makes sense as to the prefix letters now.
Thanks for sharing the meanings of the former ACL/SAL mileposts. I was in FL in early March and rode the “‘Meteor” up to Charleston. Stay safe! And as always I enjoy your videos. I always learn something! Paul in Edmonton.
wow what a small world we live in. I had to take the auto train back to PA because college was sending everyone home cause of corona. here we are 2 years later and i find this video. I was on that train!
Great surprise from you with a new video!!! Kind of breaks up the shelter in place. Please be safe out there and was hoping to see.and meet you at Folkston, but that didn't happen. Stay safe and please keep up the excellent videos
Distant Signal yes it’s autumn here and we are in lockdown... only four reasons to go out and none include rail fanning! I’m building my N Scale layout so I don’t mind too much! Be safe and take care...
I've been making a train simulation game on Roblox and these videos have helped me with some inspiration to make these games more realistic. Love your videos! :D
Thanks Danny for your experience and knowledge that you put into your videos! You know even what's inside the cars! Best I can do is if their full or not (not too well though!) And getting a shout out from an engineer! Great video as usual.
Good afternoon Danny! At 19:00 there's an engineer that says the same thing. How cool is that?! I love these longer videos of yours because you go more in depth about explanations of RR stuff that is Greek to us armchair railfans. Thank you for all you do for us.
Great and informative video, especially picking up AT at Lakeland Junction going up the Vitas. We are locked down here in Australia and could get a $1600 fine if we went out railfanning, so great to see this. Best regards and stay safe.
19:00 "Good afternoon, Danny". Why do all the good crews have to be there.
Exactly what I was just about to say
Thats the second video Ive heard the engineer say Hi Danny ! You know who it is Danny ? Also did the Auto Train run through Ocala on that route ?
@@timmcquaig711 Yes Auto Train would have gone through Ocala but it would have been dark by the time they got there. Also you'd be surprised how many of us Train crewmen watch Danny's videos. They are more educational than most topics CSX can teach.
@@SD40Fan_Jason I always figured Train Crewmen wathe Danny's videos, there so educational.
@@porkchop2218 we also watch them to see if we are in any of them! =D
“Good afternoon, Danny!” Wow, thats awesome. Great crews. And you can keep those CP GEVOs. They run by here way too often. And Max is a great guy.
I've never understood those "impatient drivers." Every time I get stopped by a train at a crossing (which is rare for me), I get as excited as a kid in a candy store. Keep up the great work!
Most people aren't really into trains, though, and more and more people have a "got places to go, things to do!" attitude. A few count the number of cars, but fewer even think about what it's carrying or where the thing is going. If they see a mail train, they may not even realize that their Amazon order from last night may be inside one of those containers.
Jonah Bishop It’s the best feeling to get stopped at a railroad crossing...when you’re a railfan.
That always makes my day, I have a train track on the other side of field from, probably half a mile away, I get to watch them from my kitchen until the farmers plant corn there
Yeah. I've seen drivers go around gates with some detrimental results because of it. I lived in one town, where this was quite common. I was first in line and the gates went down and didn't care. Some lady in her fancy Jaguar decided it was too much to wait for the train, a local doing about 15 mph, to come along because he just pulled out of the industrial park. She went around me and got clipped. Her car andwas pushed down the tracks while taking out line side stuff all the way. No one was hurt, but her car was pretty mangled!
This crossing has seen other incidents as well due to the commuter station nearby. Idiots see the train stopped at the station and go around the gates rather than wait a minute for the gates to raise up which they do if the train just pulled in. Yet again another fancy car driver was more interested in his appointment and scooted around the gates just as the commuter train started to move. No one was injured this time either, but this cost him his car and insurance bigly.
I don't mind sitting at a crossing and watching a train go by as I like to watch trains ever since I was a young kid.
Hands down danny you are the best railfan I like to watch!!.. the paul Harvey of rail fanning!!..
It's my first time hearing him. He does a fantastic job. Really, he could to investigative reporting. He's good!
Ditto! Nice job Danny
I've enjoyed your channel for a couple years now. I'm a CN conductor in Green Bay, WI. Great stuff very much appreciated in these difficult times.
Good work on your job sir. Please stay safe and congrats to the employees of CN on working safely. 😃
Yay a new distant signal video!
MBTA & More Productions You and me both! 😆😄
Am an old CN/CPR/VIA railfan and enjoy these CSX videos and your informative comment! 😀🇨🇦
I always wondered what the lights on the side of passenger cars meant.
Trainfan1055 yellow means the brakes are applied, green means released
@@Railfan9743 don’t some also have red, or are those just doing double duty for doors?
@@jaysmith1408 red is usually doors are released, and white means a guard/conductor is keyed in there(usually on commuter rail equipment)
@@jaysmith1408 And for others red only comes on when the emergency breaks are applied
what is the meaning of the 4-digit on trains side..
Great video. Cool hearing you name over the radio. And it was a long video. I like that
Some interesting and unusual (for me at least) sightings: Amtrak locomotives running tail-to-tail like most freight locos but unlike passenger locos there and here in Canada (Via Rail), and then the Amtrak train pulling auto-racks at the end! Great catches Danny! Thanks.
Another outstanding video Danny! A small tip for you about trains and combining them... Hunter Harrison's philosophy was why run one train when you can combine them and run 2? Here, train 119 was a mixed manifest out of Montreal. 651, empty ethanol came up from Albany. It had to go through the yard in Montreal, so, Hunter had them combined to save time, wages and shareholder money. They were then split in Winnipeg when the manifest kept heading West and the empty ethanol went South back to the fields to be filled back up.
Hello from Cornwall Pennsylvania. Great job as always. Not only do I appreciate your videography, Danny, but I also enjoy the history lessons as well. Way back when (1950s) I followed the Florida East Coast, even before and during the Ed Ball era and the bitter strike which ultimately made the FEC so unique among Class I railroads. But my knowledge of FL railroads is piddling next to yours so....Many thanks as always.
Thanks also for your personal email response to my message. I’ll be back to you soon. I headed north from visiting my family in FL on 3/16, boarding #92 at Winter Park that Monday, in the early evening. That was the day all the Chinese Virus restrictions kicked in big time, and the sleepers were deserted. My wife and I each in a Roomette and just one other couple occupied in the entire car. When we arrived at 30th St. on time (!) Tuesday afternoon at rush hour, we were literally the ONLY living souls in the massive train hall there, except for 2 Amtrak ushers. Talk about eerie!!
We made a quick connection to our Keystone Corridor train to the Lancaster area and home. We were very lucky. The nest day the Keystone Corridor trains were cancelled. They’re still not running as of now.
Thank you for your fine channel and the personal contact. Both are much appreciated. Stay safe and healthy. Happy Easter. We’re doing our Easter family get-together by teleconference. Sad but true. CAS.
Hi Charles. Sounds like you had a nice ride. I would have loved having a sleeper car all to ourselves, but it would have been a little lackluster not meeting any other passengers on the train. That's one of my favorite parts of train travel.
We're doing the sam thing for Easter. My wife I I will be on a Zoom with our kids and other relatives call sometime today.. It sure ain't the same.
Thanks very much and Happy Easter to you.
Danny
I'm a feeder driver for UPS, in the chicago area. (I go to lots of railyards, Norfolk southern, CSX, BNSF) we use CSX shipping containers, along with EMHU and also our UPSU yellow shipping containers. UPS also tries to put loads less then 300 miles on a truck, no point bothering with the railyard when time can be cut in half.
Greetings from Buffalo NY. Home of CSX Walden Yard 6, a junkyard for old rail cars, adjacent to an uncoupling yard on Broadway which has fascinated me from a young age. As you get closer to Harlem Rd, the loading yard for shipping containers and automobile haulers sits next to several lines, including a pair of unused spur lines running to commercial properties. If you ever find yourself up this way, it is prime viewing!
Always full of good info. One thing I've wondered...why do some engines have amber strobes on the roof (like the one at 11:15-11:30) and others don't...when are they used? Switching? Industry? On certain lines? Might be a good topic for covering in another video, too, though I'll welcome a reply here. PS: I like the longer length here; never can get too much of Distant Signal productions and DH!
Strobes are often indicative of Remote Control power. They can only be operated by Remote in a designated RCO zone though so you'll never see it in RCO mode outside of a yard or plant.
Nice when a crew recognized you. Great informative video Danny.
"good afternoon Danny". Gosh, you have such a neat production that the crews know you. Never stop!
You know, for once, i would love to know why someone would give these videos a thumbs down? These videos are on-point! EVERY one of them... continue the good work DH.
Awesome video Danny! Nice mix of information and trains. Now one thing, the Portsmouth Sub, which spurred out of Norlina NC, originates in Weldon not Richmond. It's a fun piece of railroad all things considered.
Hi Danny, I am sure that the engineers appreciate your videos like we do. I love your attention to detail. Yeah, trains are truly complicated.
That was alot of information about this line. I often wonder what kind of education these engineers and conductors have to experience before that get out on the rails. Great video Danny. Stay safe.
Typically you start as a brakeman which is about 100 hours on the rails. Conductor is an additional 100 hours on the rails plus classroom. Engineer is 200 hours throttle time. At least on the RR I work on.
For CSX, Conductor trainees get 2 weeks of rules and procedures training followed by 4 weeks of job shadowing. If the trainee is ready by then they will get cut loose and be given a job as a conductor. Most of my cubs got a second four week period so they could be ready, if they were green coming in.
Engineers are usually conductors that have applied for an opening and were selected. Training as an engineer requires a rules and procedures class followed by 160 hours as a student engineer. Once they have completed this, they get a ride-along with a DSLE to show they are knowledgeable not only in the ability to handle the train but also that they know their territory. A stop test is performed, usually with a great big banner across the track that reads "STOP - Obstruction in Track" and it's placed somewhere unexpected, somewhere that they are not going more than 20 mph and they generally have enough time to see it and stop. If they can do all of these correctly, they are cut loose as an engineer.
This is quite a gift for all of us out here in lock down Danny. Thank you so much for your time shooting, cutting, recording and mixing. You know all that production value is NEVER wasted on a guy like me. When all of this virus nonsense is over we will defiantly see you in out there on the" High Iron." Be safe my friend.
I wrote a lot of tickets to drivers that failed to stop and/or drive around the gates. Deputy Sheriff in Savannah Georgia for 27 years!
Great informative video as usual. Your comment about the flip-top hoppers and how they were emptied reminded me of my first year at Dupont Chemicals in LaPorte Tx. One of the "general helper" jobs was to climb into the gondola which had been full of cliche' and shovel out the remaining cliche' so Mr. Dupont didn't pay for anything he didn't get. The hot Texas sun sure made that day long. Good memories just the same. Thanks for the "way back" memory, and keep the video's coming but stay safe from Covid-19.
Any time I get stopped at a rail crossing, I'll sit and count how many cars are connected. These behemoths are always fascinating.
Loved the O709 switching part especially, and the rest of it too! Sad that Class 1s are trying to drive away local business.
Danny, enjoyed this video immensely thus also really like the CSX crews having a great rapport with you by acknowledging when they see you, thats great 👍.One of the top notch rail fanners,that be you Danny. You & your family take care & be healthy & you be safe along the rails. 😎👍👍👍🛤🚂
Greetings from New Jersey. The one positive thing about the internet - and there aren't many - are videos like these that you and so many others create and upload. Sometimes I enjoy the straight trains passing the camera videos that so many put out - and then there are those that are informative as well. Yours are informative, with a sprinkle of drama via your great narration. Looking forward to your next one. Everyone, stay safe.
DJ Ciro Hey there, fellow NJ railfan!
@@edd17sp74 what part of Jersey?
i'm from Middlesex lol
Hamilton
@@edd17sp74 toms river
I nominate this video as "Railfan Video of the Decade" - Thanks as always for sharing your passion.
You have the Best Voice and Most Information out there. You’re Almost Overqualified for TH-cam. 😬 👍 Thanks and Stay Safe!
0:36 just took my breath away; what a gorgeous pic !!!! i love empty tracks; wonder where they may lead to.
Thank You for all time and information you put in all your productions! It makes it so much more fun and interesting!
Danny, you have me dumbfounded!! The SCL timetable you showed up close at 07:12 was from my hometown of Franklin, VA. WOW we've hit the big time!!! Of all the tables and locations you could have talked about you chose a little corner of southeast VA and northeast North Carolina. Sure had the memories flooding back of the days I watched the SCL moves around town and the Union Camp paper mill. The Norfolk Franklin & Danville (NF&D) went past our house so to see the SCL meant a short bicycle ride to the other side of town to a friends house were he lived by the SCL. Love the videos!!
Ha! Thanks so much Alex. Yes, I have all those old SCL timetables. Well maybe not all, but I have one from each division. The SCL era was certainly a great time to be a young railfan.
I always learn something new about railroading when watching your videos, well done!
Thoroughly enjoyable video. You have a great voice for this.
That's because he's a pro.
Thank you Danny 😊 I was one asking about the letter prefixes. Love all your videos!
THANKS AGAIN !
In the early 80's - after CSX Corporation was formed but before CSX Transportation was created to operate the entirety of the CSX properties my work group occupied cubicle space adjacent to the Operations Planning Department of Chessie System. Operations Planning KNEW that Centralized Dispatching was going to happen and the ALL tracks/milepost had to be uniquely identified so that computer systems could know what was being accessed. Chessie System personnel assigned the Milepost designations for Chessie System Trackage; Seaboard personnel assigned the Milepost designations for their portion of the railroad. In general - B&O trackage starts with a B; C&O starts with a C, ACL trackage starts with a A, SAL trackage starts with a S, for some reason L&N trackage was given a numerical ZERO as a prefix. Others have been incorporated over time such as the RF&P when it became a part of CSX was assigned CFP as their Milepost designation. YMMV!
This is great viewing keeps me glued to the screen in our lockdown in the UK
Another great video Mr. Harmon. Thank you for the time you take to make such great, interesting, and informative videos. I look forward to meeting you in person some day. Keep up the great work and stay safe.
LOVE your videos, Danny!!
The narration, and information therein really sets your videos apart... You do a great job! Thanks for taking the time to put these together.
When that alarm bell goes off it makes my day. WOW! Another great video, Danny. And that Auto Train is one heck of a train.
Mind blown with all this information and those old ETT’s - that’s what I like to see! Great video!
Outstanding video, as usual, Danny Harmon! Thanks for the information on the mile marker letter prefixes. Learn something new every day.
Great clip, Danny! I love the long ones! So neat to hear your name called out by the train crew, respecting your long-standing passion for all things rail. Man, you are such a cool dude! Keep it up; I gobble up everything you post!
Thanks so much, Ash. That means a lot.
Hi Danny, thanks for the very interesting video on route labeling, the history of some route segments and the rerouting of the Auto Train. Always fun to see and hear your railfanning adventures. - Dean from Minnesota
Preserving railroad history for future generations. Thanks buddy!
Great video as always, Danny. While I love to hear the details and things about the railroad, I also really like to hear your little stories and things like what you had for lunch that day. I think it gives your videos a bit of personality, and I know you didn't go hungry that day! Keep up the great work!
What a great video Danny. Incredible footage. It was so nice to hear your voice again. So calming and takes me away from all the troubles in our world today. Be safe and keep up your fantastic videos.
Thank you, love any day you post something new.
Morning coffee and a new Danny Harmon video, great way to start the day. Thanks again Danny for another quality video and stay safe.
Great video. Of late your videos have been what has kept me busy during this time of the covid-19 pandemic I think I've watched all of them. Keep going and stay safe.
Danny: your videos are the most informative I have ever seen, keep it up
I like the fact that you don't do excessive 'panning' when it comes to your video's. Most people just prefer to cut off their video's after the locomotives pass. Today i saw my first ever CSX Phosphate hoppers (8 minute mark) and it was on this video, can't wait for a manufacturer to release them in either N or Ho Scale. I'd be buying a bunch!!!
Thanks Patrick. While I like locomotives very much, they're not the only thing that interests me about railroading. I like the actual operations and business of railroads. If you spend a day just looking for engines or a single engine, you miss a lot of other stuff.
I've been subscribed for quite awhile and get notified when you put up another video. I've been a train nut since I was a young kid. I'm also happy to see old steam engines brought back to life, and the best one of all is the Union Pacific #4014 'Big Boy'. I do have an HO scale Rivarossi 'Big Boy' #4001.
Always love your videos and narration Danny! Keep it up!
Mr. Harmon,
One of your best!! I sure wish I could’ve caught Auto Train in Lakeland. Great stuff man - keep em’ comin’.
You know you know your info when crews say hi to you.
Well what a pleasant surprise this morning, plus I will say Good Morning Danny! It must make you feel great to hear an Engineer say 👋🏻👋🏻.
You always seem to come up with new and interesting topics, and that Auto-train catch was top shelf. Thank You!
Please keep yourself and family safe during this time.
What a nice and rare find with the autotrain, thank you for this part of railfan history and allowing me to witness this!
Nice catches! I enjoy learning about railroad prefixes and what they are about! I also like the Amtrak Auto Train a lot and also enjoy the narration a lot! Really nice!
Thanks Danny, I always enjoy your videos. Now I understand why it takes a while between articles. Stay Well.
Sir, I've been binging on your videos all night. Excellent videography and narration. You'd make an excellent television news reporter or TV news magazine correspondent.
Thanks Stacey. Sorry my channel kept you up all night. Ha!
@@distantsignal It's been my pleasure. I made a comment on another of your videos about a MaxTrac shown in it. Is that one of your radios? Just noticing it said channel "66". Not a lot out there with the 99 channel modified logic boards.
Yeah, I had that done around 2002 to that MaxTrac. I usually only ran the scan list with 4 or 5 channels though. It was too slow to do 'em all. I sold it in '05 for a CDM-1550 which I've used up 'til now. When I get my truck back from the shop I'm installing a new Kenwood NX5700. Looking forward to that.
Throughly enjoyed the video. Thanks for all your hard work.
Thank you Danny for the cool video's. I have learned a lot about the way csx and other trains company run their services.
WOW, what a great surprise towards the end of the video, I would have loved to witness that. Im glad this was a longer video, great job BTW. Watching it does make me miss your wonderful state of Florida though, we were headed there at the end of this month again, but.........hopefully this fall things will get better. PLEASE, Stay Safe out there, wherever you go, we don't want anything to happen to our favorite railfan.
I love the Golden Beaver on those CPs.
I keep hoping that I'll see you when I'm in the Lakeland area delivering and picking up food in my semi.
That was terrific!! AMTRAK running north on freight line!! WOW. I love your narrative with the video. Learn so much.
So nice to see your video this morning Danny! It's been a while and we missed ya!
One of the lines not mentioned here was the old Wildwood to Orlando route which was the SX line. More than half of the route is gone now, the remaining being the branch line between Tavares and Orlando. I remember as a kid, seeing trains through Leesburg and the old bridges and railbed that connected Leesburg to Tavares. But I never got to see a train run the distance. Very cool though and with your explanation of the lines being in alphabetical order it makes sense as to the prefix letters now.
Hey Danny, glad to see you're still out RF'ing during all of the recent events. Hope you stay safe and well!
Thanks for sharing the meanings of the former ACL/SAL mileposts. I was in FL in early March and rode the “‘Meteor” up to Charleston. Stay safe! And as always I enjoy your videos. I always learn something!
Paul in Edmonton.
Very nice video and auto train detour reminds me of Amtrak Coast Starlight detour on the west coast!
Excellent Danny,love the long videos
Fantastic video, Danny! Love your 52 catch!
Another brilliant video Danny, can’t wait till the next one. Keep up the great work!
Great video, as always!
caught a new one! from a scottish railfan to you! love the videos!
wow what a small world we live in. I had to take the auto train back to PA because college was sending everyone home cause of corona. here we are 2 years later and i find this video. I was on that train!
Another excellent production from Distant Signal 👍🏻
Great surprise from you with a new video!!! Kind of breaks up the shelter in place. Please be safe out there and was hoping to see.and meet you at Folkston, but that didn't happen. Stay safe and please keep up the excellent videos
Thanks. Yeah, I couldn't risk it at Folkston this year. Hopefully in December.
As always another enthusiastic and informative video... cheers from Melbourne Australia!
Many thanks from you blokes!! Is it Autumn down there right now?? It's Spring here.
Distant Signal yes it’s autumn here and we are in lockdown... only four reasons to go out and none include rail fanning! I’m building my N Scale layout so I don’t mind too much! Be safe and take care...
Thanks for another great episode Danny👍
Once again, Beautiful Video, and Happy Easter Danny!
Thanks Danny, as always I enjoy you videos
I've been making a train simulation game on Roblox and these videos have helped me with some inspiration to make these games more realistic. Love your videos! :D
Thanks Danny for your experience and knowledge that you put into your videos! You know even what's inside the cars! Best I can do is if their full or not (not too well though!) And getting a shout out from an engineer! Great video as usual.
"No views"... when you refresh just at the perfect time!
I miss those superliner sleepers , I remember seeing those going threw winter haven years ago , nice catch on the auto train
Once again an outstanding video and very informative too! Cheers from Sweden!
Thanks Ollie!! Glad you're still out there.
I have recently started watching your videos and all have been interesting .
Danny, I like your videos from the moment they begin.
It's good to see you're doing well, Danny. Can't wait to see your next video.
Good afternoon Danny! At 19:00 there's an engineer that says the same thing. How cool is that?! I love these longer videos of yours because you go more in depth about explanations of RR stuff that is Greek to us armchair railfans. Thank you for all you do for us.
Nice acknowledgement from the crew at 19:02-3 . That's pretty cool Danny.
Great and informative video, especially picking up AT at Lakeland Junction going up the Vitas. We are locked down here in Australia and could get a $1600 fine if we went out railfanning, so great to see this. Best regards and stay safe.
That was really a cool video Danny. Just love your videos. You do such a tremendous job on them. Keep up the good work and have a good day. 👍👍👍❤️
Thanks Don
It’s been a while since you last posted so I thought you had might of quit but I’m happy to that your still out there on the high iron!
Great video Danny. Haven’t been out much just been working like crazy. Great seeing you and stay safe out there.
Always enjoy your videos