Trains passing through Tampa's Ybor City
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- Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2010
- It's Thanksgiving week, and I was out and about in Tampa's historic Ybor City district. A major rail line runs through this area and Tampa's Union Station is located just to the west of Ybor City; from what I understand this rail line gets a lot of traffic daily not only from the scheduled Amtrak trains that stop here twice a day but the numerous CSX trains that pass through.
On this video we see Amtrak's Silver Star - which is Train 92, the northbound train to New York City - as it makes the backing move into Tampa's Union Station. Amtrak trains are turned at a location about two miles east of where I took this video (East 20th Street) which is called the Neve Wye.
For you railfans out there, a wye is a track where trains can turn around. At the Neve Wye, an Amtrak train will proceed from the mainline into the wye. Once the train is north of East 7th Avenue switching takes place (it is done from CSX in Jacksonville without any effort of the Amtrak crew) and the train does its back-in move.
Once the Amtrak train arrives at Tampa's Union Station it will be there for around 15 minutes, discharging as well as receiving passengers as well as their baggage. From what I understand, a crew change takes place as well as the Silver Star is a long route between Miami and New York City and there are several crew changes that do take place.
Amtrak 92 is then ready to press northward towards its next station stop, Lakeland, where it will take on northbound passengers. (Ironically, before Tampa the train stops in Lakeland to discharge passengers coming from Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Deerfield Beach, West Palm Beach, Okeechobee, Sebring and Winter Haven). Major station stops on Amtrak 92 include Orlando, Jacksonville, Savannah, Richmond, Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York City, the Silver Star's northern terminus.
Today's Amtrak 92 consist is: Two locomotives, one baggage car, three sleepers, one dining car, one cafe car, and five coach cars. You got that right, five coach cars. Being Thanksgiving week, Amtrak plans for heavy demand by adding more coach cars as needed and when I saw the train push on north, I noticed a good ridership turnout as more and more people are getting fed up with the hassles of going through security as part of air travel.
After Amtrak 92 leaves Tampa on its northbound journey, it's not too long before a CSX train makes a move southward towards Port Tampa, a little port on the western side of Tampa's Interbay Peninsula just north of MacDill Air Force Base. What I have noticed is that the CSX locomotive is carrying just a tank car; from what I understand CSX is supposed to put an empty box car between the locomotive and the tank car for safety reasons.
The rail line that passes through Ybor City is what is called the A Line, a major rail line from Richmond to Tampa. CSX kept this identifier back from its old days as the Atlantic Coast Line until a series of mergers over the years created what we know today as CSX Transportation. From what I understand, at Tampa's Union Station - which is Mile Post 882 - the A line transitions from main line proper to an industrial spur which takes CSX freight trains through downtown Tampa, across the Hillsborough River at the Cass Street Drawbridge, then the line turns southwest and follows the Selmon Crosstown Expressway and continues southwest past Gandy Blvd., eventually terminating at Port Tampa.
After the CSX train passes by it's getting a little late for me, and it was time for me to be on my way. I did not do any narration on this video; instead, I decided to let you experience watching the trains go by as it was meant to be. Information on the A Line west of Tampa's Union Station is from RUclips user distantsignal's (he's got great railfan videos; you will enjoy every minute) video on the A Line.
I remember watching this when I was a young boy
Same here, classic
Me three. This was one of the first videos i watched when i was a kid when i first created this account back in February of 2016 at just 9 years old.
I remember watching this video when i was just 9 years old back in 2016. This brings back memories. Really like mechanical bells.
I finally found your videos and looking for it for a long
I took and saw a train go down the middle of the road in Tampa on Tuesday 2-25-14 at 6:45pm. It took and had an engine, boxcar and 9 tank cars. It was cool seeing it in the middle of the city down the road. I took and filmed it.
Jaw Tooth I subscribed to you along time ago I think. :-D
Love the sound of the crossing bells!
You can tell where 21st street is because you can hear the bells all the way from 20th street.
@EdRingwald I love train yards, something about being around these thousand pound piles of machinery is really humbling, I feel the same about school bus graveyards.
The spur north of the Neve Wye gets some good use. There are several industries right around where that spur ends just north of Hillsborough Avenue including a Conrad Yelvington plant nearby.
The section of the A Line west of Tampa Union Station where it transitions into an industrial spur all the way to Port Tampa (the small port south of the Gandy Bridge) sees a few trains a day too.
A tripod would make this soooooo much better.
Nice video. I've always enjoyed seeing trains. Perhaps that makes me a "railfan", too. :)
About a week ago I caught a CSX freight backing down the spur just south east of the Amtrak station.
I was there just 3 days ago and caught the Amtrak coming and going. While I was there In Yber City I saw about 7 chickens downtown on the tracks!
Apparently chickens on the railroad tracks in Ybor City is not uncommon. I have family that lives down in Florida despite living in Maine.
I love the older bell sound compared to the fake sounding ones that are being used most of the time !!!!
Same here!
Bring back the mechanical bells. The Electronic bells don't sound like true railroad crossings but mechanical bells do.
@atsf3780 Unfortunately there are no public places in Tampa to get a view of the Uceta yards. However, I got to see the yards on a return Amtrak trip from Winter Haven not too long ago while on the train.
It's N 20th ave at & E 6th st
Really cool! Thank you!
Awesome Video!
Great video of crossing signals!
I like this
All that horn blowing for loco and a tank car...HA! Pretty good video. My wife and I went 1st class on Amtrak, Tampa to NYC and back, was the best trip EVER! The only bad part was the Tampa-Lakeland track was horrible, thought we were going to derail more than a few times and I'm a former freight train conductor (Soo Line) I'm used to rough track, but that stretch out of Tampa was ridiculous! Wonder if CSX fixed it yet. Oh, and when the trip ended, that was the other bad part :-(
1:04 Bell dings
1:50 that grumble sounded like someone was trying to take a poo
It's because it the horn and they were taking a poo really loud
Lol
It sounds like a baby
Oh wow. There was a wierd malfunction after the gates rose. Take a look: 3:12 in the time.
Nice video.
Cool video!!!
that qS taking for ever so the rail gate can close with the red lights
That CSX loco is LOUD! Got to be! YBOR is full of drunks and the train must be heard! 🤣👌🏾
I very much applaud British and American rail fans. The Japanese and French have the best railroads, but there's nothing better than British or American diesel!!!
the CSX was like CC 201 Red And Blue hauling 1 freight car, i see in Cakung Station
nice video
I saw this video on 2002
I live here!!!!!
like in my trainz 2009
but very rare to take that moment
but in another side was like japanese trains
@spikeous706 It's been corrected - I apologize for not doing this sooner but I have been so busy with other things. Thanks for pointing this out!
Well can you tell me what the number of the csx locomotive was?
@EdRingwald I got a Florida Norhern Branch That runs To the Progress Energy Power Plant. CSX through power with the coal trains and a couple local from Florida Northern
the chicken sound was like in Tulungagung
my father's home
cool.
6:50 fav😁
I wanna ride it
that is "KLB" or known as "Kereta Api Luar Biasa"
Earape 11:52⚠
listen to the star's wistle
sqUEAk sqUEEAK sqUEAK!! xD
it's 3.00
Good info on here except for the street is N 20th St not E 20th St.
5:01 - Current E Reynolds St?
Our trains have a shit ton of gang graffiti on them
think you're confusing that "major rail line" for the S line just south of this (the A line)
Amtrak reverses
u should gets some shots of the yard
Not bad
Who's also a big train fanatic? I am :)
@georgiaroadgeek Thanks for the kind comment! I went by your channel and noticed that you are a roadgeek; I subscribed to your channel and be sure to subscribe to my channel - I have not only railfan content but roadgeek content as well!
1:05
That's a really bad whistle
Bells sound like a FEC catch
I very much applaud British and American rail fans. The Japanese and French have the best railroads, but there's nothing better than British or American diesel!!!