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When the Morning Comes
Yeah, they were going to downtown, but not to see a lady. What do you mean you don’t get the song reference? Oh. I guess I’m the only Abandoned Luncheonette enjoyer here then. That’s a shame…
On the morning of April 1, 2022, with the early spring sun still rising over the greater Miami area, a morning drive into Hialeah to kick off a day of train hunting led me to cross paths with CSX Y32231, returning to Hialeah Yard after a mornings worth of work on the Downtown Spur. A northward facing #CSX2778 [GP38-2] with a three man crew aboard haul 10 cars for the yard, set to head north to Waycross on an outbound Q452. An enthusiastic, eagle-eyed conductor waves out the window, somehow having spotted me from a good distance away.
CSX has a number of yard jobs based out of Hialeah Yard to work the multitude of customers and industrial parks around the area; Y322 typically works the Downtown Spur, a roughly 3.5 mile long spur branching off the single track SFRTA mainline near CP MIAMI CANAL, running geographically east on what used to be the Seaboard Air Line’s double track mainline into their Miami station. The Spur’s few customers are typically served in the early morning hours under the darkness of night, the operation rarely seen in broad daylight from what I’ve seen [Tolga’s the expert on that, gotta give where credit is due].
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Hialeah, FL
SFRTA Mainline
Date: 04/01/2022 | 09:09
ID: CSX Y32231
Type: Yard Job
Direction: Northbound
Car Count: 10
1. CSX GP38-2 #2778
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© Vicente Alonso 2022
When the Morning Comes
Yeah, they were going to downtown, but not to see a lady. What do you mean you don’t get the song reference? Oh. I guess I’m the only Abandoned Luncheonette enjoyer here then. That’s a shame…
On the morning of April 1, 2022, with the early spring sun still rising over the greater Miami area, a morning drive into Hialeah to kick off a day of train hunting led me to cross paths with CSX Y32231, returning to Hialeah Yard after a mornings worth of work on the Downtown Spur. A northward facing #CSX2778 [GP38-2] with a three man crew aboard haul 10 cars for the yard, set to head north to Waycross on an outbound Q452. An enthusiastic, eagle-eyed conductor waves out the window, somehow having spotted me from a good distance away.
CSX has a number of yard jobs based out of Hialeah Yard to work the multitude of customers and industrial parks around the area; Y322 typically works the Downtown Spur, a roughly 3.5 mile long spur branching off the single track SFRTA mainline near CP MIAMI CANAL, running geographically east on what used to be the Seaboard Air Line’s double track mainline into their Miami station. The Spur’s few customers are typically served in the early morning hours under the darkness of night, the operation rarely seen in broad daylight from what I’ve seen [Tolga’s the expert on that, gotta give where credit is due].
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Hialeah, FL
SFRTA Mainline
Date: 04/01/2022 | 09:09
ID: CSX Y32231
Type: Yard Job
Direction: Northbound
Car Count: 10
1. CSX GP38-2 #2778
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© Vicente Alonso 2022