Alan, that absolutely the coolest thing to let us watch #92 backing into Tampa.. I'll be sure to take it south from Baltimore to meet my Royal Caribbean cruise next year....Many Thanks....
+FECSD70M2 PRODUCTIONS it went to tampa 10 years ago but since then no more I ride Amtrak every week down here and live near the tracks and watch it go by. it is train number 92 look at the schedule at Amtrak.com
Only Temporarily For Some Weekends Because They Are Building A New Passenger Rail Service In Orlando. But Train 92 And 91 Does Come To Tampa. I Watched One Today
This makes me want to get on a train and go somewhere. I've rode from Savannah, Ga. to Miami, Fla. on the Silver Metro and it was a great trip. Thanks for posting this.
A lot of single signals turn on when the train enters the block and goes out when they leave the block to save energy and the bulb from burning out. Where there is a lot of train traffic all the time and yards they stay on.
@Millenniumforce Very nice video! I was just on train 92 yesterday 5/55/11. the last car's whistle did not work and the road crossing gate had problem to come down. They ended up have one of the conductor and two other guys using the flag to stop the traffic for each of the crossing all the way from the K switch back into union station. took a good 45 min.
Thousands!!! When I was a teenager I went on a train almost everyday from New Jersey to New York with my train conductors and engineer friends. I have over 1 million miles on trains.
A K-turn in auto mobiles is you go foward, stop, turn your wheel to right or left, back up a little bit then stop. Turn your wheel in the other direction, then go foward in the direction you came from. Same thing the train did!! LOL
Cool video. Gonna be riding the Silver Star through TPA again later this month. Tampa needs more Amtrak service than only 1 train. I think it would be cool to have regional trains from TUS to St Pete, Sarasota, & Brooksville.
Excellent camera work, Alan. There are many railfans who could learn to make their video's so much better by studying your techniques. Keep up the good work!
Great video. I really like how you explained what was happening. If Atlanta gets a new downtown intermodal transportation station, Amtrak Crescent will probably have to do some backing in.
Yep, the station is not off the main line like most stations are so they have to back into the station, when they depart they get back on the main heading either north or south
From here in Tampa to New York City it is 1,000 miles. It makes about 25 stops. It takes about 24 to 26 hours to travel that distance. In a car straight driving in which I did a month ago about 18 hours.
The speed at which you take a switch is limited only by the speed the switch is designed for, and how well it is maintained. If a 30MPH switch is well maintained, you can take it backing up at 30MPH. Of course, there are other concerns about going fast while backing up, but switches aren't usually one of them.
I see you're a railfan too that's awesome nice video too buddy... I have a few and plan on doing more whenever I get around to it again. I'm planning on doing one or two under train vids as well we'll see how that goes lol.. keep bringing us the good stuff. see ya...
The movement of the train is called running the Y , thats how they change directions on that part of the road. I worked on 81 - 82 Tampa to Venice many years ago.
Thanks, for a quick aerial view of the station, it seemed like they should load on the side opposite the train from Nuccio Parkway. But now I see that there are several tracks in varying states of repair and I guess the one they choose puts the station out of view from those boarding. If they were on the other side, they'd see where the station was the instant they stepped out.
@ACLTony Hello, In this video I was filming just east of Ybor City on Broadway near 40th st. I usually film in Tampa Seffner Plant City and Lakeland. I live in Dover and the train tracks are right across the street. I see Tropcana go by every day.
Thank you for your comment! Yes I agree with you in what you wrote but sometimes you gt to take a chance t get that right video just lik storm chasers.
Hello Al, You have posted some very nice videos and they bring back memories of a past trip to FL on the old SCL. Thank you. How many of these lines that you have recorded are the former SAL or ACL?
Enjoyed the video. Yes, in car driving, this is a k turn. However, in conventional railroading lingo this is technically a "Wye" move. Didn't see the train turn it's wheels. ;) The vantage from which this video is shot is technically trespassing, though. I encourage photo and videographers to stay 10 ft from the outermost track unless on a station platform. Last week, an experienced railfan was killed by a train.
Cool video. Gonna be riding the Silver Star through TPA again later this month. Tampa needs more Amtrak service than only 1 train. I think it would be cool to have regional trains from TUS to St Pete, Sarasota, & Brooksville. (If the Silver Star is on time, right after it leaves TUS a waiter walks the train taking reservations for dinner in the Dining Car)
Nice video. I enjoyed watching it. I used to live in Florida in the 60's and used to visit TUS when it was a real action place. Now it is a graveyard mainly. Does the train originate in Miami or does it stay overnight in Tampa to connect in Jacksonville?
Just noticed something else odd. I was looking at an aerial shot of this train station and assume you were driving along Nuccio Parkway. It appears like people are boarding on both sides of the train - because it's a spur station? That must be unusual because, for example, at Union Station DC there's no track arrangement that permits that AFAIK. Is this the only Amtrak station where trains are boarded on both sides?
Nice video and be careful you don't get in trouble with the railroad or the law because under both thier jurisdiction you are trespassing on railroad property.
Alan, that absolutely the coolest thing to let us watch #92 backing into Tampa.. I'll be sure to take it south from Baltimore to meet my Royal Caribbean cruise next year....Many Thanks....
Thank you
man i love trains and your videos make m love for trains even better
cool! excellent final shot of the train launched at full speed.
I love filming trains in Tampa. Ybor City rocks!
Jaw Tooth im
Cool
Yes, Thank you. I loved trains since I was about 5 years old. More great trains to come.
Nice catch. . Flying through that crossing
Very nice. A new perspective. Thanks.
He sure was booking it! Great Video.
Yes!!! I grabbed the name before anyone else did. Thanks.
nice footage !! both stopping ,reversing ,then flying
Super video of a very interesting manuever.
Thank you very much...
I like your videos. You don't just show us. You tell us the whys and wherefores.
Thank you very much
The Silver Star Runs From Miami Tampa Orlando Jacksonville then to New York with many other stops on the way. Over 1,000 miles and 30 hours of travel.
Thank You
@dcarpine28 Thank you!! I will be filming more trains and rollercoasters soon.
I love American trains...very nice...
I've ridden the Silver Star for 20 yrs from NYC to Savanna and back and had no idea it did this reverse thing in Florida... so cool!
Excellent job.
@BigJ782011 Thank you!! Never had a problem yet... But I am transitioning my self from trains to rollercoasters
Well done. Thanks. We used to take it from Tampa to NYC in the 1990s when one section went to Tampa and the other to Miami!
I think your mistaking that for the silver meteor.
+FECSD70M2 PRODUCTIONS Meteor dosn't service Tampa Florida
Millenniumforce Trust me Alan, I've taken it before and it DEFINETELY went to Tampa!
+FECSD70M2 PRODUCTIONS it went to tampa 10 years ago but since then no more I ride Amtrak every week down here and live near the tracks and watch it go by. it is train number 92 look at the schedule at Amtrak.com
Millenniumforce Ok then
Absolutely mesmerizing!
Only Temporarily For Some Weekends Because They Are Building A New Passenger Rail Service In Orlando. But Train 92 And 91 Does Come To Tampa. I Watched One Today
Thant you I enjoyed the video very much. I'm a railfan too.
This makes me want to get on a train and go somewhere. I've rode from Savannah, Ga. to Miami, Fla. on the Silver Metro and it was a great trip. Thanks for posting this.
You got it!!!!
Yes you are correct at 79 MPH I just wanted to round off the number. Thanks for the input
A lot of single signals turn on when the train enters the block and goes out when they leave the block to save energy and the bulb from burning out. Where there is a lot of train traffic all the time and yards they stay on.
@Millenniumforce
Very nice video! I was just on train 92 yesterday 5/55/11. the last car's whistle did not work and the road crossing gate had problem to come down. They ended up have one of the conductor and two other guys using the flag to stop the traffic for each of the crossing all the way from the K switch back into union station. took a good 45 min.
Thanks. Have lots on my channel and more comming
Thousands!!! When I was a teenager I went on a train almost everyday from New Jersey to New York with my train conductors and engineer friends. I have over 1 million miles on trains.
Nice intro and catch! Thanks.
A K-turn in auto mobiles is you go foward, stop, turn your wheel to right or left, back up a little bit then stop. Turn your wheel in the other direction, then go foward in the direction you came from. Same thing the train did!! LOL
Cool video. Gonna be riding the Silver Star through TPA again later this month. Tampa needs more Amtrak service than only 1 train.
I think it would be cool to have regional trains from TUS to St Pete, Sarasota, & Brooksville.
@TheAmtrakboy Its only for a month while they do track repair down in the Miami erea. Train 92 will be back to normal time in April
Great vid. Thanks for sharing.
Yes You Are Very Right
@SuperNJTRANSIT Just Like A Car. You pull foward making a turn then stop then backing up making a turn in the opposite direction.
Excellent camera work, Alan. There are many railfans who could learn to make their video's so much better by studying your techniques. Keep up the good work!
Those cars look brand new
Great video. I really like how you explained what was happening. If Atlanta gets a new downtown intermodal transportation station, Amtrak Crescent will probably have to do some backing in.
Hey dude your videos are awesome i am a big fan a trains myslelf sometimes i stop at a train station a take pics if septa and amtrak and acela trains
Hi Allan yours videos is Awesome Thanks for the posting on UA-cam.
A little ahead, a little back, clunkety-bunk, rickety-rick. Ah, American passenger railroadin' in 2013! Well, I guess it has a certain charm...
Yep, the station is not off the main line like most stations are so they have to back into the station, when they depart they get back on the main heading either north or south
Than you.. More great video's to come. I am taking a road trip up to New York City. Lots of filming in the next couple of weeks.
From here in Tampa to New York City it is 1,000 miles. It makes about 25 stops. It takes about 24 to 26 hours to travel that distance. In a car straight driving in which I did a month ago about 18 hours.
very nice job thank you
Thank you so much!! Got a great video for tomorrow
Nice!
Awesome Video!!The end was a great spot to catch it fly by like that!!That was great!
The speed at which you take a switch is limited only by the speed the switch is designed for, and how well it is maintained. If a 30MPH switch is well maintained, you can take it backing up at 30MPH. Of course, there are other concerns about going fast while backing up, but switches aren't usually one of them.
Thanks very much. I got a great line up of video's for the next month
I see you're a railfan too that's awesome nice video too buddy... I have a few and plan on doing more whenever I get around to it again. I'm planning on doing one or two under train vids as well we'll see how that goes lol.. keep bringing us the good stuff. see ya...
great video! i loved the commentary!
i loved amtrak
Amtrak is my favorite train company!
Yes they are done from a conrol tower somewhere in Jacksonville Florida
The movement of the train is called running the Y , thats how they change directions on that part of the road. I worked on 81 - 82 Tampa to Venice many years ago.
Thanks, for a quick aerial view of the station, it seemed like they should load on the side opposite the train from Nuccio Parkway. But now I see that there are several tracks in varying states of repair and I guess the one they choose puts the station out of view from those boarding. If they were on the other side, they'd see where the station was the instant they stepped out.
Nice video. I like your narration.
Thank you very much
Millenniumforce have ever rode on Amtrak
***** A lot locally
Really nice video, well done!
Great video!!!
your channel is awesome
@WAKEUPshift111 They are automatically done from a switch tower
I liked the narration. :)
Only The Silver Star
@IngloriusBastard11 Yes your right it was great back then
Thank you for watching
Awesome vid.
Thank you!! More better train video's coming soon. Stay tuned....
Well done camera work! Thank you for explaining what is happening.
The switch can be seen changing at 2:49. Wish there were a close-up of it changing.
Thank you, It was a scary neighborhood to film this in!!!
@ACLTony Hello, In this video I was filming just east of Ybor City on Broadway near 40th st. I usually film in Tampa Seffner Plant City and Lakeland. I live in Dover and the train tracks are right across the street. I see Tropcana go by every day.
great video and narration!
Thank you for your comment! Yes I agree with you in what you wrote but sometimes you gt to take a chance t get that right video just lik storm chasers.
Al ready done it. LOL
People may think 80mph is nothing but when you see it aside a train it turns heads.
Nice video Alan smith
This is awesome !!!!! Make more vid pls !!!
Hello Al, You have posted some very nice videos and they bring back memories of a past trip to FL on the old SCL. Thank you. How many of these lines that you have recorded are the former SAL or ACL?
@The23113 I made another video this weekend and I show the tracks switching up close. Video will be posted Friday
I know they come to Tampa have seem them myself but the website directs you to orlando via bus from the tampa station.
Ive been over in Plant city. nice place..
@THEATREofPAIN270 Yes it should be
Enjoyed the video. Yes, in car driving, this is a k turn. However, in conventional railroading lingo this is technically a "Wye" move. Didn't see the train turn it's wheels. ;) The vantage from which this video is shot is technically trespassing, though. I encourage photo and videographers to stay 10 ft from the outermost track unless on a station platform. Last week, an experienced railfan was killed by a train.
Cool video. Gonna be riding the Silver Star through TPA again later this month. Tampa needs more Amtrak service than only 1 train.
I think it would be cool to have regional trains from TUS to St Pete, Sarasota, & Brooksville.
(If the Silver Star is on time, right after it leaves TUS a waiter walks the train taking reservations for dinner in the Dining Car)
Nice video. I enjoyed watching it. I used to live in Florida in the 60's and used to visit TUS when it was a real action place. Now it is a graveyard mainly. Does the train originate in Miami or does it stay overnight in Tampa to connect in Jacksonville?
Yes they haved to back into Tampa because the tracks dead end there
@highfield333 Thanks for the kind words and the sub..
nice vid thanks
LOL Thanks
Yes it is the one behind me
No never had a problem
Next time I will get closer
cool vid
Just noticed something else odd. I was looking at an aerial shot of this train station and assume you were driving along Nuccio Parkway. It appears like people are boarding on both sides of the train - because it's a spur station? That must be unusual because, for example, at Union Station DC there's no track arrangement that permits that AFAIK.
Is this the only Amtrak station where trains are boarded on both sides?
Nice video and be careful you don't get in trouble with the railroad or the law because under both thier jurisdiction you are trespassing on railroad property.