It must be the only crossing in Miami without santeria lol! I'd take cats over santeria any day lol. Thanks as always for the views and comments, Kevin!
@@railrol82 The cats down here where I am tend to be a bit larger and we have to watch out for them. Particularly when a mother Bobcat has a litter of kittens. Bobcats are blivets. They can explode on you in a fury of claws and teeth.
this is a nice video with a special effect railrol because the one moment you walk in an open field along this abandoned spur and the next moment you stand there in this overgrown bush and than it's just look like you step into an other world that's give the image of a peace and silence jungle.
we get lots of flooding here and the branch line near my houe gets warsh out from time to time and has to be rebuid but the old mill creek spur not so luck because its abandoned
I'm noticing some branch lines and spurs aren't built as high as the main. Does the main flood over there too? Thanks as always for the views and comments, Walter
were I live we have big mountains and rock slids and landslides will hit along the main but some times the main can flood or wash out were it crosses small creeks and streams
This is an interesting industrial spur track. Looking at Google Maps from above, I see that the spur continues north through the forest of early growth trees about a block or so and dead ends. If you were able to saw your way to the south on the spur, you would have cut through about another block and a half of trees before you would come to a four-track mainline that parallels I-95. The current length of this abandoned trackage is four to five blacks. Thank you for bringing this abandoned industrial spur to our attention.
I had never quantified the distance of the forest, thanks Thomas. In that case, it is impenetrable, definitely a job for MOW equipment. Hope you have a great week!
@@railrol82 Use of a pole saw and it could be opened up in one day by one person cutting and 2 people hauling it clear of the tracks.. Pole saw would need more than one tank of fuel or a single battery but it could be done fairly quickly. Merry Christmas my friend.
You should do a video of a local train doing some switching. Not just them stopping and backing up, them doing all movements necessary. I got to film a local train going into the spur that once was the ICG to the box factory 🏭, and made a second one of the same train coming out. What's interesting is that after it pulled out, it backed up again just so the conductor can flip the switch.
Thanks for more exploring, Roli. Glad to see your footware is appropriate, so your RRA certification is safe. You strike me as the kind of guy who knows how to de-escalate a situation, but please do be careful when poking around possible "settlements." 'Nuff said? Cheers from Wisconsin!
You can read people really well, Andrew. I've also been known to escalate certain situations depending on whether or not they had it coming to them! I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving and thanks as always for the support of my channel, sir.
That is the James Steel Lead built in the early 60's after SAL purchased the land in 1960 and developed the industrial park. During the SCL years the Opa-Locka local often would tie-down just north of the crossing and have lunch at the Cloverleaf Bowling Alley.
I love historic aerials. There are maps of my hometown that I have never seen before I discovered this website thanks to a certain someone who mentioned it in one of their videos.
The tracks are still in good condition tho, but we never know if the ways are still intact from that tree or bush. I still watch some videos of the abandoned railway I'm very interested. Love your video, keep it up and stay safe also Merry Christmas
I won!! I won!! I'd like to thank the academy, my director Henry Flagler, producers Step Curry and Taj Mahal. And of course, my mentor King Babalawo.........😁
LOL Good morning Tony, hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving. Funny you should mention those characters... I'm thinking of doing a video featuring all my accents, still in the planning stages though.
I don't understand why an industrial spur such as this one, is disused. There are enough heavy industry opportunities to use rail for its intended purpose. Why do we let such infrastructure go to waste?
I think it all goes back to cost cutting measures. Unfortunately, for the most part it is cheaper to ship via truck than it is rail. Let's see what happens Dec. 5th!
Now will you be choosing the winner on 12/11/2022 from this video or will it be on a future video? I just want to make sure I get it right because that shirt looks cool. Now, if I do win that shirt, will I have the option to add extra decals like a crossbuck, signal, etc?
The winner will be chosen on 12/11/22 from the video posted on that date. Specifically, the 82nd comment on that video posted on 12/11/22. The shirt comes as is, no adding or removing.
@@railrol82 I have my notifications on for your videos. I made a lot of comments on this video because I thought you were choosing the 82 comment on this video. Well, now I know what I need to do, comment as many questions/fun facts as possible on 12/11/2022 before doing the raffle because it seems like a competition and I love competitions. And, I love your content in general.
Great question, in 1997 I still remember seeing cross bucks and a well maintained track. My assumption would be sometime in the 2000s. Hope all is well, Geoff!
Are you allowed to cut off some abandoned rail for memory sakes. I wish I could. I do, however have 2 rail spikes that I managed to get my hands on. One is from the ICG era and one from an older generation of Union Pacific
Perhaps because there is a church nearby, they don't want the saints bumping heads with the supreme being they pray to in that church? Hope you have a great week brodeo!
You should purchase this line so you can bring it back to life. If you do purchase it, you should have a short train that is customized to your favorite culture. For example: the locomotive should be an ex- FEC locomotive back to it's original colors, a large tanker car to fuel your train, 2 passenger cars for dining and cooking, 5 flatbeds for a variety of entertainment, 5 boxcars for storing your equipment once the tanker car is empty, and a caboose for collecting tips. How this should work is when a train approaches a railroad crossing, it should slow down so that everyone can see the performance. Then, once the caboose reaches the crossing, it should stop for enough time for people to give tips. After the tanker car runs out of fuel, it should pull into a siding for the night and at the end of each week, everyone should get their checks. After a while, your train business will be booming.
Nick, do you realize how much money all that costs? First of all, CSX probably won't even want to sell it and if they do, we don't have the money. Locomotive and rail cars will also be millions of dollars!
ChainsawN&W1218, great video on that old spur, I hope the rail strike gets averted, I've been watching on the news and 12 of the Rail Unions have to make a decision and two more left two decide by December 5th, the Crews and railworkers work hard and deserve good benefits! 👍🛤🚂
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Sweet looking shirt there Roly! That'll be a merry Christmas for whoever wins that! Awesome video as always.
Yes sir! ESP Studios and RailROL82 will bring some holiday cheer to that lucky person, even more so now when times are tough!
Finally a track without santeria. 😆
Great find! I think those cats were rail watchers as well. 😄
It must be the only crossing in Miami without santeria lol! I'd take cats over santeria any day lol. Thanks as always for the views and comments, Kevin!
@@railrol82 The cats down here where I am tend to be a bit larger and we have to watch out for them. Particularly when a mother Bobcat has a litter of kittens. Bobcats are blivets. They can explode on you in a fury of claws and teeth.
Excellent Video
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Thanks as always for the views and comments, Taslim!
Another great video ♥️
Thank you very much!
Bro I’ll be coming to Miami some time in January. Can’t wait to possibly bump into you filming haha
Nice! Let me know if you need any help finding any places. I know this place like the back of my hand!
@@railrol82 i usually stay at the carillon on the beach
Ahhhhh……rusty and crusty! Love dems old rails!
Rusty and Crusty, sounds like something out of the Simpsons lol! Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving John!
@@railrol82 lol!!!!! Happy Thanksgiving Roly!!
11:07 ...or an indicator of whatever they got behind that barbwire fence lol
I see what you did there lol. Thanks as always for the views and comments, Kyle!
this is a nice video with a special effect railrol because the one moment you walk in an open field along this abandoned spur and the next moment you stand there in this overgrown bush and than it's just look like you step into an other world that's give the image of a peace and silence jungle.
Yes, there's a lot going on here lol. I like for my viewers to see all the good stuff. Thanks as always for the views and comments, HH!
we get lots of flooding here and the branch line near my houe gets warsh out from time to time and has to be rebuid but the old mill creek spur not so luck because its abandoned
I'm noticing some branch lines and spurs aren't built as high as the main. Does the main flood over there too? Thanks as always for the views and comments, Walter
were I live we have big mountains and rock slids and landslides will hit along the main but some times the main can flood or wash out were it crosses small creeks and streams
Awesome video, sad to see tracks like that.
You know how it is, the CSX special lol.
Awesome video ROL82, hope you had a good thanksgiving : )
Thank you sir and same to you! I appreciate the support as always, Douglas!!
This is an interesting industrial spur track. Looking at Google Maps from above, I see that the spur continues north through the forest of early growth trees about a block or so and dead ends. If you were able to saw your way to the south on the spur, you would have cut through about another block and a half of trees before you would come to a four-track mainline that parallels I-95. The current length of this abandoned trackage is four to five blacks. Thank you for bringing this abandoned industrial spur to our attention.
I had never quantified the distance of the forest, thanks Thomas. In that case, it is impenetrable, definitely a job for MOW equipment. Hope you have a great week!
@@railrol82 Use of a pole saw and it could be opened up in one day by one person cutting and 2 people hauling it clear of the tracks.. Pole saw would need more than one tank of fuel or a single battery but it could be done fairly quickly. Merry Christmas my friend.
Nice shirt! Awesome video
Thank you B! Hope all is well over there on Crenshaw!
If the spur was put in before 1967, then it was Seaboard Air Line, afterwards, it was Seaboard Coast Line.
You're right on the money as always!
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Love it as always! I hope that rail labor gets what they are asking for!
Yes sir, I agree. It really isn't too much to ask for. I'm sure the multi million dollar RR companies can spare a few dollars for more sick days.
You should do a video of a local train doing some switching. Not just them stopping and backing up, them doing all movements necessary. I got to film a local train going into the spur that once was the ICG to the box factory 🏭, and made a second one of the same train coming out. What's interesting is that after it pulled out, it backed up again just so the conductor can flip the switch.
I hear you, but that definitely won't be happening on this track! Catching a switching move is like catching a unicorn, very difficult to!
@@railrol82 just anywhere you can find switching activity, please film it. Even if it means going to a different line.
Atta boy. I respect that. The deeper you go, the more cool stuff you could potentially find
That's our motto in Railroad Archaeology!
Thanks for more exploring, Roli. Glad to see your footware is appropriate, so your RRA certification is safe. You strike me as the kind of guy who knows how to de-escalate a situation, but please do be careful when poking around possible "settlements." 'Nuff said? Cheers from Wisconsin!
You can read people really well, Andrew. I've also been known to escalate certain situations depending on whether or not they had it coming to them! I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving and thanks as always for the support of my channel, sir.
That is the James Steel Lead built in the early 60's after SAL purchased the land in 1960 and developed the industrial park. During the SCL years the Opa-Locka local often would tie-down just north of the crossing and have lunch at the Cloverleaf Bowling Alley.
I love historic aerials. There are maps of my hometown that I have never seen before I discovered this website thanks to a certain someone who mentioned it in one of their videos.
It is great and also try USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer!
@@railrol82 I will look into it. Thank you.
@@railrol82 can you please leave a link to the website. I am finding lots of websites and I don't know which one you use?
The tracks are still in good condition tho, but we never know if the ways are still intact from that tree or bush.
I still watch some videos of the abandoned railway I'm very interested.
Love your video, keep it up and stay safe also Merry Christmas
Thanks as always for the views and comments, Umbreon! I appreciate the kind words and Merry Christmas to you too!
Love the shirt! How do you order one?
Thanks, please e-mail me your size and shipping address. Payment would be through Cashapp...
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If you look hard enough, you might find a crossbuck hidden in the vegetation. You never know, until you look.
I'm going to need a chainsaw first, just to make my way through it!
Go get em.
That's what I do!
Part of that line looks in good shape still. The ballast looks like it was just recently laid. Maybe the rain washed it clean?
The rain washed it clean. There is no way MOW equipment is getting in here! Thanks as always for the support of my channel, Mark.
The archeologist speaks
Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving, C! Thanks as always for the support of my channel!
I won!! I won!!
I'd like to thank the academy, my director Henry Flagler, producers Step Curry and Taj Mahal. And of course, my mentor King Babalawo.........😁
LOL Good morning Tony, hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving. Funny you should mention those characters... I'm thinking of doing a video featuring all my accents, still in the planning stages though.
Did you ever make a video in Homestead at the south end of the line near 635 10th Ave SW?
I sure did! Thanks as always for the views and comments...
Make sure you have boots on. There could be snakes in there.
Among other things!
Which end of the spur comes from the mainline
Great question, that would be the South end, the 1st vegetation I walked into. Thanks as always for the support of my channel, Jeff!
Keep up the good work Roli
Hope you and your family had a good Thanksgiving
I don't understand why an industrial spur such as this one, is disused. There are enough heavy industry opportunities to use rail for its intended purpose. Why do we let such infrastructure go to waste?
I think it all goes back to cost cutting measures. Unfortunately, for the most part it is cheaper to ship via truck than it is rail. Let's see what happens Dec. 5th!
Did they remove that abandoned railroad track and replace it with a bicycle path?
At least four ads appeared in or around this video. Congrats.
Correction 1931
Could be, the main was installed in 1926, anything is possible.
Is this railroad track being restored to serve trains anytime soon???
I seriously doubt it. Thanks as always for the views and comments!
@@railrol82 Your welcome.
I think that might be 1956 maybe.
Could be, there comes a point where to rail is so corroded, it is hard to decipher.
Now will you be choosing the winner on 12/11/2022 from this video or will it be on a future video? I just want to make sure I get it right because that shirt looks cool. Now, if I do win that shirt, will I have the option to add extra decals like a crossbuck, signal, etc?
The winner will be chosen on 12/11/22 from the video posted on that date. Specifically, the 82nd comment on that video posted on 12/11/22. The shirt comes as is, no adding or removing.
@@railrol82 I have my notifications on for your videos. I made a lot of comments on this video because I thought you were choosing the 82 comment on this video. Well, now I know what I need to do, comment as many questions/fun facts as possible on 12/11/2022 before doing the raffle because it seems like a competition and I love competitions. And, I love your content in general.
Was there any signals here?
Not in my lifetime, and I'm willing to bet my bottom dollar there were never any!
If the track was dated 60s then that is well overgrown, when did track fall into disuse?
Great question, in 1997 I still remember seeing cross bucks and a well maintained track. My assumption would be sometime in the 2000s. Hope all is well, Geoff!
Looks more like 1931, not 61.
I wasn't wearing my reading glasses lol! Thanks as always for the support of my channel!
@@railrol82 It happens to the best of us…😉
Are you allowed to cut off some abandoned rail for memory sakes. I wish I could. I do, however have 2 rail spikes that I managed to get my hands on. One is from the ICG era and one from an older generation of Union Pacific
Cutting a rail is a huge operation and l wouldn't recommend it. I believe there is a Federal Law that prohibits it.
Ah, but do you have a milepost that reads 1040? Somewhere I have a spike that came off the Tide Water Lumber Company track into the Big Cypress Swamp.
That’s a 3 not a six so 1931
Thanks as always for the views and comments!
I guess they don't practice Santeria?
Perhaps because there is a church nearby, they don't want the saints bumping heads with the supreme being they pray to in that church? Hope you have a great week brodeo!
@@railrol82 Well, they obviously ain't got no crystal ball!
Where are you from in origin? Dagestan? Chechnya?
Close, Cuban lol
It's all planned..
That's a very valid point. Thanks as always for the support!
You should purchase this line so you can bring it back to life. If you do purchase it, you should have a short train that is customized to your favorite culture. For example: the locomotive should be an ex- FEC locomotive back to it's original colors, a large tanker car to fuel your train, 2 passenger cars for dining and cooking, 5 flatbeds for a variety of entertainment, 5 boxcars for storing your equipment once the tanker car is empty, and a caboose for collecting tips.
How this should work is when a train approaches a railroad crossing, it should slow down so that everyone can see the performance. Then, once the caboose reaches the crossing, it should stop for enough time for people to give tips. After the tanker car runs out of fuel, it should pull into a siding for the night and at the end of each week, everyone should get their checks. After a while, your train business will be booming.
Nick, do you realize how much money all that costs? First of all, CSX probably won't even want to sell it and if they do, we don't have the money. Locomotive and rail cars will also be millions of dollars!
ChainsawN&W1218, great video on that old spur, I hope the rail strike gets averted, I've been watching on the news and 12 of the Rail Unions have to make a decision and two more left two decide by December 5th, the Crews and railworkers work hard and deserve good benefits! 👍🛤🚂
I'm with you Timmy, that is hard intense work and yes, the railworkers deserve reasonable time off and good benefits!