The Tampa-Plant City turn has finished working the north and east sides of town, now backing onto his train before proceeding south to work additional industries.

Seen through the haze of burning fields, Cane 5 rolls into Moore Haven with 20 loaded gons. The floodwalls of Lake Okeechobee can be seen in the background.

The Ft Pierce Turn shoves their through cars into the small yard at the South Central Florida Express headquarters as a GP11 waits for cane duties.

As much of a 'juice train' as you're gonna get these days, the 2nd Manatee Switcher returns from Tropicana in Bradenton, FL with 18 loaded reefers of OJ and is backing into Yeomans Yard.

A large 45 car Ft Pierce Turn heads back to Clewiston leaning into a nice curve on the old FEC K-Line.

"The Local" pulls two sugar cane syrup tank cars from Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida. Growing up in Michigan, I likely rode in this locomotive at some point, it being a forme... (more)

A dry rock empty phosphate takes the Yeoman By-Pass around Yeoman Yard, where the Tropicana local O82326 has just tied down in track 5.

An empty wet rock train returns to the Bone Valley. The 22 year old paint on the 307 hasn't held up well in the Florida sun, but I'll still take a faded YN2 over later schemes.

Job 74 returns from NS Simpson Yard with a cut of racks & intermodal, crossing the St Johns River in the shadow of CSX's Headquarters.

Q455 passes an ACL whistle post in the tree tunnels of South Georgia. I'm not sure what happened to the nose, but hopefully the shop was more skilled at welding than painting.

Cane 5 crosses the South Central Florida Express Moore Haven Drawbridge, on the way to dropping 25 empty cane racks for loading west of town.

Train NASA12 hauls a total of 12 rocket booster segments to Jay Jay for interchange to the NASA railroad. There are ten smaller boosters for the NASA Artemis project, while the 2 larger reefer bo... (more)

During this era, train 109 often originated at Ft Pierce and was all empty aggregate, cement & sulphuric acid returning to the plant at Medley.

A late 210 is bounded by palm trees as it crosses the St Lucie River in Stuart, FL.

The Auto Train passes through central Florida. I find it odd that Amtrak's longest (and reportedly most profitable) trains is assigned the oldest road power on the roster, with this particular tr... (more)