I am traveling next Monday from Washington, DC to Kissimmee, Fl and back by train. I will be on the Silver Star. I recently bought a scanner and would like to know some of the frequencies used by CSX/Amtrak along the line I will be traveling. I have been unable to obtain this information locally. If someone could help it would save me time next week and avoid having to contact railroad employees.

-- Robert J. Stewart (Stewchoo@juno.com), December 08, 1999

Answers

Channel 49 (private) is 160.845. You will need this to hear operations at the Jax. Amtrak Station and the back up move at Tampa.

-- Jim Coviello (jcovi60516@aol.com), June 18, 2001.

Specifically, Robert you can tune to 160.590 and 161.100 for the most CSX traffic, that's the old CH 1 and CH 2, there are others. The Amtrak trains usually stay on the freq of the territory they are traversing and they have a "private" channel the go to when making switching or back-up moves into a station (89-90) at TAmpa, that's AAR 49, don't know what that is in Mhz offhand. Hope you have an enjoyable trip.

-- walt rogers (wjriii@gte.net), June 11, 2001.

Scroll down the list on the Q&A forum until you get to "Odds and Ends" and find the question "RR Frequencies" Several have answered your question there including myself.

-- jim coviello (jcovi60516@aol.com), December 08, 1999.