Amtrak at Auburndale, FL - Now and Then
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- A contrast of then vs. now with VHS video from 1988 courtesy of Tampa railfan Steven Kern.
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The " baggage car" in the Miami section is actually not a baggage car. It is a combination baggage and crew dorm. The car started out as a 1952 StLC US Army Medical Dept Ambulance car in the 89500-89551 series. One of those cars still serves as a training car at Hialeah for Amtrak. Other cars in that series that Amtrak got were used as wheel cars. The Army got rid of those cars and kept the heavier 89400 series cars for use in many other types of service. The 89400s rode on 6 wheel trucks while the 500s rode on 4 wheel trucks and the 500s did not ride as well. Two are preserved as built by the Army. One at Ft Eustis and one at Ft Sam Houston.
Muy bien como siempre, excelente explicación y muy bien narrado. Gracias Señor por su trabajo
What a great video Danny. And thanks to Steven for giving you access to this video to share with all of us. What a convoluted operation that was!
Amtrak B32-8's when purchased were primarily assigned to the SOUTHWEST CHIEF, DESERT WIND, COAST STARLIGHT, & SUNSET LIMITED. The FIRST two were #'s 501 & 502 who in 1995 were repainted into Amtrak's California colors & renumbered 2051 & 2052. Also 1988 was the year CSX adapted it's first company colors and placed their fleet of F-Units into ROADRAILER service.
Colin Mulder • i’m still angry about the discontinuation of the Desert Wind. 😤
500 was the first. Amtrak only paid for 18, with California paying for 2. 501 & 502 were given to Caltrans in 1992, but repainted in late 94.
@@AVeryRandomPerson Really?
@@colinmulder6806 Yep.
@@AVeryRandomPerson I mentioned 1995 because their weren't photo's of them on their revenue runs in 1994 or early 1995. It wasn't until August 1995 that one of them was caught in the consists of Amtrak's #11 & #14 on what I speculated was it's first revenue runs.
I was 4 months old when that footage was taken
8 months for me
Yes, I fixed a couple of errors in it and re-posted.
DH
I grew up 10 minutes from there on Reynolds Road in Lakeland. I remember taking the train from Lakeland and connecting with the Miami train in Auburndale. We were in the dark for what seemed like forever.
Well this is why knowing some facts helps.
I visit Tampa Union Station about twice a week for lunch and once after work.
On average about 50 people get off 91 and 40 or more get on.
On 92 an average of 30 get off and 60 get on.
People somehow feel that Orlando is larger and Miami is the capital of Florida.
The Tampa market is larger than either Miami or Orlando. (especially if you count only English speaking people)
DH
Tampa
so far, my biggest regret is not taking the train back to Tampa, from Chicago, back in 1995 when i had the chance. I opted instead for the cheaper, faster Greyhound, and hated it ever since. Thank you for the nostalgia shot. Much Love!
Nice Video again. Love your material.
Steve had a nice catch of those old U18B's and Family Lines caboose.
Great video. Thanks for making it!
I can't believe it's been 40 years.
Great video with the Montgomery Ward camcorder thanks again for all the videos
that old vhs did very clear video for it being so old.
I first rode The Meteor from St.Petersburg in February 1983. I spent the next year dreaming of how I would get back to Fla. & was glad to find back copies of Rail Classics dealing with Auburndale. I shot some video from the Silver Star from NY to Tampa and back to NC. I will load on here sometime !....Thanks for this look back .
By contrast, you could compare Pepsi's can schemes with Amtrak's Phase III, IV, and V schemes that the B32-8BWH's had.
They had the old one, one in the middle, and then the current, modern scheme.
***** They should have taken one of the Dash 8s and painted it as a Pepsi can for the heritage 40 years engines..You agree?
Aaahhhhh back in the good old days....
Really great look at Amtrak and how it was over there back then. I love the footage too.
Brings back fond memories and sitting on a dark warm train for 15-30 min sure beats riding a "bus" for three hours.
Love it!!!!
Cool, I had just turned 10 that day & know exactly where I was. Seems like ages ago.
Awesome job Danny, and much thanks to Steve as well.
5 stars!
Wow! When I was a teenager I rode this train up to Virginia several times... Back and forth-back and forth....lol cool video! I love the Seaboard Sysytem loco. Cool!
Wonderfully done Danny! Can't wait to see your next video!
Great video Danny! Very interesting how Amtrak used to combine two Silver Meteors at Auburndale to run to New York.
That was surprising great video from a VHS recorder.
thanks danny rs1
great job! I never knew they have to that in 1988!
Awesome video, Danny! I like the footage Steve sent you. Was an interesting ritual back then.
Sure miss those days
The section that was picked up came from Miami... Venice/Ft. Myers service ; taken from Larry Goolsby's " Atlantic Coast Line- The Postwar Years" Service down to Venice / Ft. Myers ceased when Amtrak was created...1972. Not sure about the month... Take care- Rich Hill
Great vodeo . i have witnessed this switching from the NB Miami section . THANK YOU
Nice Catch.
I was four years old back then!
Whoa!
No AC in the South? Oh dear..
I bet passengers who traveled that line in those days are grateful Amtrak thought twice about what they were doing.
Talk about a complex mess!
A Nathan M5 on a F40ph! WOW! I never knew that! Awesome Video!
Actually that's a Nathan P5A.
227 had an M5 only
That's a P5a, standard on the original order of F40s (200-229), and P30CHs.
Awesome video as always!
Great video. It was very professional. I hope you make many more as I want to watch more. Keep on with the good work. By the way great voice
can you do the video on csx Now and Then ?
Aside from prime movers, the D8-32 is a four-axle engine -- only 49 were made. 20 B32-8WH's were built for Amtrak in 1991. They are equipped with Head End Power for passenger service. The AC4400 and ES44AC are six-axle engines and are used on freight.
That was awesome!
Danny don’t you have any interest in bright lines? I would love to see videos of them lay in the new track from Coco to Orlando, and if you were the one that made the video it would be the very best. I really enjoy watching your videos more than any other railfan are out there
Amtrak in the early days tried to run it like an airline. You would think since they had money they would put a generator trainside to keep people from suffocating in the heat. Those cars got very hot.
Oh wow
GREAT speaking voice!
more Amtrak now and then pls
Awesome video and powerful too! T.C. 5-7-2010
Just so you know, those Dash-8s are actually called 8-32BWHs.
This split use to be done pre-Amtrak in Wildwood.
Two stations are you sure? Because I've never seen this second station. What I do know is that there are two station codes, one for discharge and one for receive, but I'm pretty sure it's for the same station.
I think I just learned something I didn't know about before. There was a west coast Silver Meteor? Where did that originate? Naples or something? I was pretty sure the west coast line hadn't been used in over 30 or 40 years. BTW nice catch of P40 840 at 1:35. P40s are pretty rare these days. I know quite a few of them have been sold to CDOT (Connecticut Department of Transportation) for Metro North and Shore Line East service.
What kind of bastard would press the dislike button on a informational video. That is just wrong. The video is great the voice, the footage, and the trains.
I don’t understand why they had to join both sections?
Probably to eliminate the need to run two separate trains to NYP. Back then, the Silver Meteor was one of Amtrak's longer trains that used the E-60 to pull them from Washington to New York.
I know that east coast section came from Miami, but where did this west coast section come from?
I see a crew sleeping car at 1:40
Jesus loves you ❤
Danny I use to live in Sanford and I used Amtrak a lot to go Tampa.You said you go there for lunch.Did they add some place to eat in there finally?Also,with all the sunrail construction going on in central FL,are you looking at maybe doing any filming over there?I was just in longwood for a visit and it's all really starting to take shape.
@orion938 In the 90's they did join both northbound trains in JAX and the separation process for the Southbound train
Nice video and sad thAt c40s are retired and is me USA railfanner but on my dads iphone and 110th comment
Nice video.
At 1:21 what happened to the crew sleeper and when was that taken ?
crazy switching ftw
does Amtrak still do the crazy switching moves in Auborndale 21 years later and are there east coast and west coast sections now or is it one section?
whats the difference between the B32-8? and the ac4400 and the ES44AC? they all look the exact same
Yeah and with the Meteor doin' the work in Jacksonville a few years later and the Star doin' the same drill until they swutched it also to Jacksonville in the mid 90s! Kinda sucks how they are now!
30 minutes without A/C in a passenger car can get really uncomfortable, been there and done that!
You forgot the W for the B32-8, Its B32-8W or Dash 8-32BW
Brian4449 And you forgot one more lettering. B32-8WH.
Did amtrak ever go to dade city back in the day
They did in the 1990's. The Miami section of the Silver Meteor stopped in Dade City, along with Waldo, Ocala, and Wildwood.
@amtrak706 they sold a few the state of connecticut and a few to new jersey transit and with stimulus money are returning 15 p40s to service
@justmejie at least six of them are back in service
Pause the video at 1:41. You can clearly see that the 2nd engine is not a P42DC, but a P40DC, since the number is 840. I didn't know these got repainted into Phase V. I thought they were retired and rusting away in some shop?
Amtrak706 there are 12 still in servce
Yeah I figured that out in the 8 years since I left that comment
do all cars have the whistle? and why couldn't you just connect the two train together leaving the engines and baggage cars in their places?
4:06 Hey look! Our slumbercoach!
This must have pissed off CSX totally. 14 cars makes the combined lakeshore limited look small at 12.
I wonder if Steven Kern is the wrestler Steve Kern??
Note the use of first person at the beginning. Not only can this guy narrate, but he is a great videographer!
to steve or danny .i would like to know who the engineer was.
@howardkevinm What about the propulsions?
Now who made these locomotives?
ditch lights became an FRA requirement in Canada in the 1960's !
The FRA doesn't have any jurisdiction over Canada.
@@AVeryRandomPerson yeah idk why I wrote FRA... Obviously they don't have any say here, guess I got distracted when I wrote that comment and mean't to just write "a requirement".
Awesome! 5*****!
is their a better way to get trains together without letting people getting uncomfortable?
No.First off,if the cars are decoupled,there is no electricity.The locomotive powers the AC and electricity on it.
cool
8:32 ADDISON IS RAILFANNING
Amtrak dash 8 locomotive number 514
couldn't they just run the b32 on the rear, or on trains without one, a genesis?
How come they don’t use a cab car?
None available, and extra expense for a single reverse move.
@@AVeryRandomPerson Oh ok, I just thought it would make more sense. Thanks for the info though.
Amtrak coaches are called amfleets.
andybowe I don't think they do now it's all one train
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One person got hit by the train lol!
dude thats not cool
That's really not funny
hopefully so will you
That's not funny... that's sad...
That isn’t funny...