Changes to Miami Terminal Locals

With the new year CSX appears to have taken to changing the profiles of their locals. If a source can confirm this that would be appreciated.

Y220 now has to work East Rail most of its days. This does not sound like good news since it appears CSX has abolished the midday and photo and video friendly (or unfriendly given the hassles) Y121. Y220 works all the terminal industries and those customers as well. I would not be surprised to see some of the workload in Hialeah shuffled to another yard job, but Y220 still is the main job. I will have to confirm if Y121 is abolished but given ATCS tracking, the switches have not been seen to point to East Rail in the midday hours. Now as an update, to contradict that, there is an occupancy on East Rail as of 12:45 PM. Hmm.

Y322 still runs as usual but has not been going to the Lehigh too often. It's still in its profile but probably on some sort of as needed basis.

O721 now appears to run Monday-Friday with the Rock Trains running as their K symbol on the weekend. The K-trains on record now show a trend favoring sporadic runs. December 22 and 29 K996 ran; the 22 was on O721's schedule more or less, and the 29th was on their ooooold schedule. January 6 saw the K996 again but in the morning, and January 13 saw K978 on the Lehigh Spur. K996 ran again this time on the 19th at night. O721 switches their customers Monday through Friday, evidenced on December 21, via Joe (BusProwler) on the 28th, and January 18th. Given the Homestead almost firmly sees 6 moves a week, this is a good upturn from five and this spells good news for the Homestead Sub.

More will be found out about these changes as time goes on.