The Ideal Miami Manifest

The weather was on me and Richard R.’s side the morning of December 22nd, 2021 during a morning session on the SFRTA Mainline in Pompano Beach with distant clouds to the west and clear skies above. We had received word on a southbound CSX Q45321 that would be making a morning run down the corridor to Hialeah to our utmost delight. Unsure of what was on the train for power or it’s traffic, we set up south of the N Andrews Ave flyover and waited.

 

At 09:23, with #CSX728 [ES44AH] in the lead, Q45321 would thunder under the flyover with an impressively long train comprised only of manifest traffic for Hialeah Yard; there was no block of Florida Rock or CEMEX Krome empty rock hoppers. Out of the 91 cars, a good amount of those were varied types of gondolas used in transporting scrap metal out of scrapyards within Miami-Dade County, some of those visible right behind the lead locomotive in the photo above. Other traffic on the train included lumber, liquified petroleum gas, aggregate hoppers, assorted boxcars, covered hoppers for either Transflo, Conrad Yelvington or some other industry, and rebar loads on bulkhead flatcars. The variety of rolling stock on these manifests make this one of the better trains to shoot within South Florida, at least in my eyes.

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Pompano Beach, FL

SFRTA Mainline

 

Date: 12/22/2021 | 09:23

 

ID: CSX Q45321

Type: Manifest

Direction: Southbound

Car Count: 91

 

1. CSX ES44AH #728

2. CSX ES44AH #919 [DPU]

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© Vicente Alonso 2021

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