Monitoring of train frequencies in Kensington Maryland. CSX freight and weekday MARC commuter trains.
Status:I'm working to get rid of the buzz on the audio feed.
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Monitoring of standard train frequencies in Kensington MD (the CSX Metropolitan Subdivision, also called "BA"), mostly the 160.23 Mhz standard road frequency, the dispatcher channels, and the 452/457 Mhz range Distributed Power Unit (DPU) automated signaling (sounds like a gargling tone). Commuter MARC trains also run here on weekdays. The scanner's range is rather limited, so it only picks up signals within a few miles. It can usually pickup the defect detector at the 11.6 mile marker. Here's the list of the most interesting frequencies scanned:
Name
Freq
NS RD
160.0000
CSX road
160.2300
CSX dispatch BC
(for BA line)
160.3200
CSX Police
160.8750
CSX NI Dispatch
161.3400
Telemetry
452.9125
Telemetry&cntrl
452.9250
HOT telemetry
452.9375
Telemetry&cntrl
452.9500
Telemetry&cntrl
452.9625
Telemetry
457.9125
Telemetry&cntrl
457.9250
EOT telemetry
457.9375
Telemetry&cntrl
457.9500
Telemetry&cntrl
457.9625
Telemetry&cntrl
452.9312
Telemetry&cntrl
452.9437
Telemetry&cntrl
452.9562
Telemetry&cntrl
452.9687
The Broadcastify feed typically seems to be delayed by several minutes. The scanner for this feed is a Bearcat 125AT with 5/8 wave omnidirectional antenna feeding to a Raspberry Pi 4.
