CSX Yeoman & Uceta Yard Road trains arriving & leaving Tampa, plus Yard train building and fueling
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- Опубліковано 19 бер 2023
- An evening of many yard operations at Tampa's Yeoman and Uceta yards, including six different trains sporting a total of 13 working locomotives, only one of which is a 4-axle switch engine, and more are seen in the yard.
This video highlights common activities such as building an intermodal train, switching operations to take apart and build local and long-distance road trains, fueling locomotives, and receiving and cutting apart a super-long daily manifest train.
After the Amtrak Silver Star clears the A line bound for New York, daily intermodal CSX I044 is created out of Uceta Yard by three CSX 6-axle locomotives, which pick up two cuts of intermodal cars before leaving for Jacksonville, FL.
Empty hopper train L778 from Neve Spur has to wait another 20 minutes near Uceta Yard's turnout on the A Line before it can also depart to the East, pulling many types of hoppers including blue Vulcan hoppers.
In nearby Yeoman Yard, CSX switcher 4332 is busy all evening taking apart and putting together various cuts of cars for outgoing local and road trains, including a string of Tropicana reefers which are usually the first cut of daily manifest train M442 from Tampa to Waycross, GA. Various power movements are seen around the yard, and an 18-wheeler Mack fuel tanker moves around the yard to fuel locomotives. At the end of the video it's seen waiting next to the AZA-line bypass track, probably to fuel a large unit train due to arrive later in the evening.
A fully loaded hopper train carrying wet rock phosphate from Florida's Bone Valley arrives, after waiting a half hour to the East of the yard. It's led by recently rebuilt biofuel-diesel-powered CSX 7510 and CSX 7500. No fuel was used making this video - all shots were taken on a bicycle ride, as usual!
Later, daily manifest train M441 arrives from Waycross GA. It's at least two miles long, led by 3 CSX 6-axle locomotives. It's so long that it ends up sticking 1/2 mile out of the West end of the yard, blocking traffic on US 41 (50th St) as it's broken up, dropping cuts of cars in yard sidings.
All clips are shown in chronological sequence, and were taken on a bicycle ride using 2 Canon M6ii cameras with an EF-M 18-55mm, EF-S 55-250 IS STM + Kenko 1.5x SHQ TC, and at dusk a Rokinon 12mm f2 lens.
Great rail movie! Nice captures! Big LIKE
Thanks. I googled after. Lot of industry still in that area
great catches
Very cool
Cool video from the overpass. CSX honoring our first responders I think is still sitting in the yard. I am not sure about that though.
You may have been right as CSX 911 was spotted in FL a day or two later. Thanks for the tip, unfortunately I wasn't able to get out to see it.
interesting,like
You'd think they'd give the Amtrak conductor a decent horn wouldn't you 📢 rather than that little peeping whistle
Im in tampa right now, any tips that allow you to get a day as successful as this one?
2 Amtrak trains come through Tampa every day P091 and P092, they are the most reliable and easiest to catch as you can track them on the Amtrak web page www.amtrak.com/track-your-train.html. If on time they arrive in Tampa around 1 PM and 5 PM, and in the past few months they almost always have a newer Siemens Charger locomotive in second position. Sundays through Fridays there is generally a burst of activity just around the time P092 leaves town, L778 on Neve Wye, L755 from Drew Park, and Y295 through downtown Tampa, plus Y293 going to the port and sometimes ethanol trains going to the port. All those can be caught at N 39th St between E 7th Ave and E Adamo Blvd, where the A line and S lines cross that street. You can listen to the railroad radio on the Scanner Radio app for your phone, 'CSX Railroad Greater Valrico Area' channel but it takes time to learn their lingo and locations. The wikipedia page for the Tampa Terminal subdivision is a good starting point and there are links on that page to surrounding subdivisions. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_Terminal_Subdivision
One question. If I railfan or take shots of trains in uceta road will I get in trouble or they wouldn’t care or something or is that road like property and can not pass
Very cool