CSX: "We're gonna pay tribute to our heritage." FCEN: "Hold our beers...". This has been a long time coming, going back to 2011 when the ex-CN GP9 were being considered for this treatment. #57 deb... (more)

FNOR is crossing the CSXT Wildwood Subdivision at the old depot heading to Silver Springs Shores. The CF7 is one of two FCEN has operating & recently returned to the Ocala ops.

FNOR is returning from the end of the line, south of Ocala at Silver Springs Shores, and will be hitting the street running tangent in moments. Quite an interesting line buried in the suburbs of ... (more)

Valentine's Day finds Modello Yard idle with the former Port Manatee 7063 waiting for the next assignment.

FMID operates their Frostproof Spur from West Lake Wales down to the namesake of Frostproof and provides some genuine "old Florida" railfanning. #94 is always here, but they rotate the ... (more)

After finally getting into the paint booth in late 2014, #55 was once again pulled out to aid the local tourist operation while the steam locomotive was down. The number boards didn't last, once ... (more)

This was still CSXT territory when FCEN made a daylight run to Taft with their portion of the circus train that had been playing in Orlando. With the yard full, they had to pull clear south of th... (more)

FCEN 7032 awaits the call to duty resting in Modello Yard. Photo taken from public grade crossing. FCEN runs a network of former SCL / CSX lines NW of Orlando.

What appears to be a "caboose hop" is actually a storage move with a shoving platform heading into Eustis to begin sorting out box cars from Tool World and Fort Mason to bring south.

Florida Central GP18 #59 sits in the Florida Northern yard in Ocala, FL on a gloomy November afternoon.

Putting some in, taking some out. Storage cars, that is. The centerbeams will be put on the Sorrento Branch just past "the swamp" north/east of town then, using the shoving platform, the... (more)

FCEN ran north of Eustis towards Fort Mason to pick up RailBox cars and take them out. The only moves north of Eustis these days are these storage moves.

A trio of FCEN, former CN GP9RMs sit silently next to Silver Meteor Drive in Orlando, FL.

Circumstances requiring a daylight weekend run to Taft to interchange with CSXT are frequent these days. A very large train is southbound.

Circumstances requiring a daylight weekend run to Taft to interchange with CSXT are frequent these days. Here, 7032 has run down from Plymouth and will combine with 7063 and both cuts of cars in ... (more)