I could listen to this man talk about railroading all day ! Get him on PBS!

There was two heritage units on Q-453.

When I’ve had a bad day your super calm voice and absolute love of the trains and rails is the most soothing thing ever.

It's only coincidental that I watched this video and I have to say the narration made it interesting. I didn't know railway traffic was just as complicated, if not more than automotive traffic. I live in South Tampa near MacDill AFB and the train running to/from Port Tampa is literally a handful of cars at a time on the weekdays.

I’m an airline captain on the B777 and a lifelong model railroader/rail fan. Your videos are excellent and allow me to enjoy rail fanning - thanks for the videos.

The first train had CSX 7889 the Atlantic Coast Line heritage unit

I watch "many" YT train vids, but I always come back to yours. Great commentary Danny. Keep up the great work/footage. Cheerz from Canada.

Lots of people make train videos, but your very informative and knowledgeable narratives (combined with excellent videography) lift yours to the very top! Thank you!

I love how this was all put together! And it's definitely a surprise with the knuckle just coming off! Never seen anything like it!

Lots of fast mechanical bells on the S line that day! Wow, you never hear fast bells on modern engines anymore. Great catches! And as for the ripped out drawbar... well, that's a fender bender. Happens all the time on this line, as I understand due to long consists and lots of consistently changing terrain. Usually just the knuckle though... oof, not this time!

Great day for Danny. Bad day for the railroad. Nice work as always my friend.

Great video sir!! Nice to see the drone back in the air. ;) I'm sure some of the crews were getting short on their hours of service by the time things started running again. Anything can go wrong on the railroad. One night last fall I helped Q294 fix a ruptured air hose. Used my gator to go back and forth to the loco. Conductor said you saved us an hour and a half easy. I'll do anything to help these guys out.

Lol ACL symbol and a Colonel Phillip Hopper unit right behind it lol!! C'mon Danny!! Great video!!

Wow nice consist on that Q453! The ACL "Heritage" and the Col. Philip Hooper SD40-2!

Great video Danny. The two engines on the side at the crash site that you saw at the Citra crash site were a GP40-2 and an AC6000CW, according to the CSX locomotives facebook page. According to their information, the former will be sent to Huntington WV for rebuilding into a GP40-3, no information on the latter AC6000 though.

Another informative and professional quality railfanning video! . Love the drone video perspective, it significantly raises ones enjoyment level. Thank you Danny!

Man your videos never fail to impress. Great catches and video, Danny!

That was a fine video Danny, I enjoyed every second of it!

Wow. Also 1:18 CSX 7889, I think is the SCL, but it has an emblem on the side. Interesting footage.

great video danny, very neat to see the coupler broken that way and the problem it caused. thanks.

Excellent catch Danny!! Nice job.....as usual!

Q453 had the 7889 with the ACL emblem, AND the Col. Philip Hooper unit :D AMAZING consist!

1:17 I notice 2 heritage units! Great catch Danny!!!!!

I have watched a number of your films now and not found a bad one yet, this is no exception. Thanks again.

Excellent commentary as always Dan, I enjoy your posts very much.

I live just up the street from Vitas Junction. That night there was train after train after train, all night long and into the day. I told my wife something must have happened. Now I know. Thanks for posting.

The lead engine on Q453 is an ex-Conrail C40-8W!

This belongs in your Greatest Hits. Outstanding catches.

Awesome channel.. been watching you for a while.. just gets better and better keep up the good work sir.

Just awesome video Danny! Keep up the great work!!!

This is one heck of a catch Danny! What are the chances that an entire coupler would break at a point where the railroad would have to leave cars on a main switch tying up the main line? Close to zero - probably a once in a lifetime shot. Also, you have a good example of how different GE units and EMD units sound at 8:36

Hello Distant Signal, Thank you for another great video. I really enjoy the details you provide.

Always a gem Sir...and I could only speculate more or less correctly on the Citra wreck as it was because of your videos we've been watching (as rail fans) for the last recent years with the CSX movements on the S line. I had thought after a Google search on the details of where the Critra mishap occurred that a train hadn't made it through and onto the siding when the approaching one had nothing it could do to stop from hitting it. And it's too bad you couldn't have seen the area of the wreck but it was in some lush area and that looked somewhat remote to get to without a security force in place to keep inquiring minds at bay. Great stuff and glad to see the new DJI unit up and running well for the shots in the last parts... Thanks and always are looking for anything coming out of he DA studios....

Well that was certainly an exciting video. Lots of trains. Thanks Danny. 👍👍👍❤️

Nice catch on the ACL sticker unit and The 8077 spirit loco

Danny, awesome catches and narrations. Quite an interesting morning for catches most trains run in the evening, except Q-652, and/maybe K-780. Thanks to that crash at Citra it was a interesting and fast morning, thankfully everyone was ok. Did you find out how long it took to repair the car and get Q-453 moving? Luke

I could watch these videos all day

Nice catches with the ACl emblem and Colonel Hopper on the same train!

Great catches Danny, The drone footage is KILLER !

Thanks! Always something new to learn from you.

nice catch with CSX 7889 & 8077 right next to each other!

The same thing happened on the CSXT Q400 at Petersburg on the A line a few months back.. to much train for one Knuckle to handle. It blocked the Number one main for hours. lo nice video

The engineers don't wave from the trains anymore, not like they did back in 1954.still get a tear in my eye when I hear an old train in the night.

I always look forward to your videos........... the best ever !

Great video! What a catch with the broken draw bar too

Stopping a "Get you fired train" oh brother

Fantastic video as always sir. thank you!!!!

Your Rail Fan videos are awesome Danny, not better.

awesome video. learning something new everyday. very cool. sweet an old school car nice.

i live about 5 miles from citra. that crash was pretty crazy.

What an awesome lashup!

Thanks! I like the drone shots.

Trains with JB Hunt containers around here in BNSF territory are most often referred to as Z trains in my area we get two a day the Z-PTLCHC and the Z-CHCPTL

TV or Radio. You got the voice for news reader.

At 7:30, Mr. Distant Signal has a great description of the slow auto.

That was quite the catch there Danny! Nice footage and information. Say, do you have an idea what days and times would be best for catching some CSX intermodal or Florida Midland trains at the Winter Haven depot? How does one go about finding this out? Thanks. Cheers, Dan

Great video.. Love the details.

you caught the ALS emblem and 8077 nose to nose at 1:17!!!!

Nice catch Danny! Sucks that the cop wouldn't let you video the derailment site from a safe distance, but that's the breaks. Keep up the awesome work!

Good catch of CSX 7889 with the ACL logo!

Hey Danny you missed a CSX "heritage" unit! At 1:13!

Loved that car.

great work Danny.

And the intro still thrives

Interesting how many GEs in this video have very fast bells. I'm beginning to wonder if that's done on purpose, as 3 different units with the same issue in a row is odd?

The ex. Conrail leader on the first train was much more interesting than any of CSX’s half-assed Heritage Units

Nice catch on the ACL emblem unit

Danny, I have not heard much about our passenger train. You can be assured that if there is is any news I will try to send it to you.

Another great video. I am curious since they did not want photos, could they have prevented you from flying your drone over the site?

Danny your so lucky Q453 had a CSX 7889 the ACL Emeblem and the Colonel Phillips hopper in the same train lucky you

Great video! Got the 453 @ Plant City

7:37 it’s John boy Walton!

the train i caught just so happened to break a coupler as i was recording.

The real interesting bit would be seeing the repair to the broken coupler

strange how most of these locomotives have a crazy fast bell

Nice video Danny! if you want busy CSX action and hot intermodals you should come up to Fostoria Ohio

entertaining and informative as usual.

Great video, nice job!

3:44 why is there a chain connected to the brake caliper and running the length of the bogey? Do the train engineers pull on the chain sort of like an emergency break to lock the train brakes?

Wonderful Video.

Great video. How do they pick those engines up?

2 heritage units one train!

Nice Catches and nice videos....

Nice heritage unit

Your allowed to take pictures, i would have told that A hole deputy bully to get his supervisor and explain to him you have every right to take pictures. Then i would have found a quite parking lot and sent the drone to investigate and post all the pics on the deputies facebook page. Keep up the great vids!

Great Catches!

@ Distant Signal. Is it my imagination, or does the bell for Q-178 (at 2:37 in the video) sound like it's ringing 'double-time'? I've never heard a train bell ring that fast. If it is ringing 'double-time' fast, could you tell me why, vs a 'normal' speed of ringing? Thanks. And love your channel . I subscribed yesterday. :-)

I really enjoy your videos as I live in Ridge Manor on the corner of 301 and 50. I can't see the s-line from home but I hear all the rail traffic. I sometimes head up to Catherine or down to Owensboro to catch some rail action. Do you know if the Ringling circus train will be heading down the s-line on it's way back to Tampa on Jan. 23?

After watching the Stobe the Hobo videos it makes me wonder how many people are on those trains going by you.

Plant City’s station Still has a rail line right next to the station, it’s still connected to one of the double tracks (if I remember from earlier videos) but it’s overgrown; is it even used anymore, and does it hook back up to a main line at any point or is it a dead end (rails pulled up or blocked somehow)?

I have a model of CSX 7300. Pretty neat!

did u notice the acl symbol loco

Interesting video !

am I the only one who noticed the emblem locomotive?

Why Does CSX 4748 Look Different. I Did Some Searching & Apparently That's A SD70MAC But It Doesn't Look Like One

I see that you got the colonel Hooper train

Was that the same Q453 with the acl locomotive that crashed?

Was this just an isolated incident or do you think CSX might be running some of these trains too long without a DPU? How is it decided when a train needs a DPU? length or weight or both? surely it wouldn't hurt to explore that possibility.

Did anyone see the double heritage units in the first shot?????????

Nice. Seems like you have a drone in a few shots.