If you like industrial railroading, you'd love galveston Island. Loads of old yards, ypou can see the footprint of a couple of roundhouses (One was Rock Island) and there are two huge yards for UP and BNSF there. A great railroad museum too, with two working F units. Lots of industrial movement, yard switchers, a pair of abandoned Pullman cars, etc. Great place to watch trains. If you are even in the Houston area, don't miss Galveston.

I’m praying for you, Mrs. ETR, ETR nation for wisdom and strength and light when sometimes get a little dark. I consider myself apart of the ETR nation🙏

Ahhhh, a quick glimpse of Mrs. ETR!!

Highly recommend checking out "The Roaming Railfan" 's site for great videos of the Brightline construction and restoring all the double track on the FEC. Great explanations of the construction with lots of drone footage along the route. Building the tunnels under 528 near Cocoa along with the bridges going to Miami is fascinating! Enjoying today's video with my ETR mug in hand!

@snikies22

2 жыл бұрын

I came to the comments section to say the same thing! Roaming Railfan makes some great videos overall but I love his Brightline Construction Updates Series as he has so much inside info and great video shots!

@carlnelson6601

2 жыл бұрын

@@snikies22 Great minds!

living in Vero Beach, FL we can see and hear both the Atlantic Coast Line and the Brightline 24/7.. We have the old electric power station that was diesel drivin that has been restored as a craft brewery. the rails are just feet from the building and when the trains go by north and south the bartenders ring a bell and you can get a shot for $5. Great food, great beer and great viewing especially during Happy Hour!!

@mshum538

2 жыл бұрын

Now thats my kind of train station….👍

@tassi13827

2 жыл бұрын

What is the name of the place/address? I go to Vero often.

@johnharrar5374

2 жыл бұрын

@@tassi13827 American Icon Brewery = 20th st and 19th ave.

@tassi13827

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnharrar5374 Thank you.

love the florida trains...thanks for sharing!!

I couldnt make it to the melbourne meetup cause of classes unfortunately, but the FEC is about half a mile from my house. The existing FEC rail lines have been undergoing upgrades to include double tracks from Miami to Orlando which Brightline will use alongside freight. Trains are long and fast due to flat terrain with gentle corners for the most part!

It is now 7/10/22 and I am just now watching you and Mrs. E.T.R. down in FLORIDA. Great to see the old equipment. Thanks for taking me along.

I visited a Florida phosphate mine back in the 80s. They showed me a fossil shark tooth that was as long as my hand. IIRC they estimated the shark would have been 300 feet long. The tooth of a big great white today is shorter than my thumb. The fossil and a modern tooth from the souvenir stand look just alike except for the size.

That Brightline project is something else. They are already going to take the line into the Tampa Bay area. I hope you enjoyed your Florida stay.

John Degan in photo drove from Indiana!! He probably wasn't only one from Northern state though....a lot of people want to go to Florida where it's warmer!! Great train video ETR!

I think that it's the first one. The Manchester 4-4-0. The other steamer was a 4-6-0. Great video.

Great virtual tour of Florida rail highlights and history. Glad we could meet up in Plant City. God Speed ETR!

I grew up in Plant city. The building across the tracks from the viewing platform is the old train station. It’s been turned into a museum. In the northeast corner of the diamond there used to be the freight station. I used to ride my bicycle down to the station and the station master would allow me to pull the levers which changed the signals and turn out. The east west track was the Atlantic Coastline and the north south track was the Seaboard Air Line. They merged To become the Seaboard Coastline Railroad (SCL). Of course, they were merged to become CSX.

There used to be two rail lines running through Zephyrhills. The other followed 301 and went through Dade City. Speaking of Dade City, it had at least 3 lines running through it. What is now the Pinellas Trail in Pinellas county (St. Pete) went up through Tarpon Springs and then Headed North East through St Leo and to Dade City. The overpass on I75 is still there.. It was nice to meet you in Plant City (Planet City 😄)

@thomasfreeman7770

2 жыл бұрын

That’s the old Orange Belt railway that runs out through Pasco county to Dade City . It was abandoned in the early 70s. The old right of way in pinellas county is now used for the trail as mentioned. Most of the right of way in Pasco county is used for a drinking water transmission pipeline to Pinellas county.

Working in Mulberry within sight of the railroad diamond gives me an excuse to "get distracted" by the passing trains, especially when the supervisor is talking to me....😁

When the ETR goes on a roadtrip it's like we all go on vacation! These trips are fun, informative and free for us who are entertained by the ETR. If ETR ever goes west again, the Hiawatha Trail from Avery, Idaho to the Montana State Line would be my suggestion for a beautiful video of huge bridges and tunnels that remain of the Milwaukee Road now abandoned. In each roadtrip the scenery and track are always better looking than the ETR. The Florida East Coast track looked like it is in very good condition and should serve as an ideal suggested model for ETR track. Wouldn't it be a great day to have the #2021 repainted and in notch 8 highballing southbound thru Death Valley past the new interlocking tower and agent / operator /telegrapher? It's the stuff that dreams are made of!

Yes, the cushioned underframe on the caboose at Zephyrhills was damaged. That is why it was bad ordered and retired. I bought it from a scrap dealer in Jacksonville, FL years ago. I tried 4 different Porta power jacks. up to 30 tons, to free the cushion unit, but it wouldn't budge. Had the cab for 11 years before I sold it to the city of Zephyrhills. It is the SCL 01173, an M-8 caboose built from a boxcar in the Waycross, GA shops. During my ownership it was kept with the North Florida Railway Museum equipment in Jacksonville.

Hey thanks for the Florida trip. It was a lot of fun and very interesting. Had a good time. Thanks 👍👍👍❤️

Seeing the old Atlantic Coast line/Seaboard Coast Line is like revisiting an old friend for me. Growing up in the 60's and 70's was one of the best times for witnessing the passenger trains like The Everglades, Champion, and the mail trains zipping down the double track main line between Charleston and Florence South Carolina are cherished memories I wish many here could have witnessed and enjoyed. You guys don't know the joy and excitement it was hearing ACL/SCL drag freights miles away being pulled by as many as 10 (yes, I witnessed that) F-Units in notch 8 and the smoke and sparks being sent skyward and barely making 30 MPH trying to keep that train moving. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Brian. Safe travels back home to the ETR.

What fun! Thanks Brian for taking us along on another adventure! The best to you and Mrs. ETR!

Thank you for sharing. Enjoyed.👍👀

Something about those train horns...Nice video boss 😎

Regarding Brightlines, it's the other way around. Brightlings is working with the FEC to double track (or in some places, more) from Miami to Cocoa, where Brigthline will split off towards Orlando and their new maintenance facility on the Orlando Airport property, and then to Tampa. The FEC will continue double-track expansion north of Cocoa until they reach existing double track. Excellent coverage of all aspects of the rebuilding and building is found on The Roaming Railfan, who also has an excellent video on US Sugar Corporation's railroad (including a working Light Pacific steam locomotive.) Grew up in the Melbourne area, and the FEC has been my favorite railroad ever. They have been the regional railroad that could, from breaking the unions' power over crew size, to connecting with the NASA rail system on the Cape, to welded rail and cement ties long before other railroads started using them.

Thank you Brian for a great road trip. Florida is sure a win win place for train chasing. A lot of cool and interesting train related things to see plus the trains of course and great weather. Never realized they had a propane/ Diesel engine . Thanks again for taking us along. Good job on the video. Stay safe and healthy.

What a great way to start a day, thank you.

Danny Harmon produces some GREAT Vids doesn't he?

Every year in September there is The national Stearman Fly in at Galesburg IL. Galesburg is also the home of the 2nd largest BNSF classification yard, an Amtrak Station and The Galesburg RR Museum. If you go be sure to stop at the Packinghouse Dining Company on Mulberry ST. near the Amtrak Station and RR Museum.

@victorv2066

2 жыл бұрын

YOU HAD TO GET Mulberry in there!! LoL Or is it Melbourne St.?

Great video, glad to hear you had a great time here in my lovely state… I wish I had the time to have come visit you while you were in Plant City. I drive right through Plant City between work and home too… I live pretty close to Danny. I met him in Folkston…GREAT GUY Danny is!!! I don’t think you’d have too many complaints, I hope, of some aviation footage… That’s my line of work… Planes, Trains, & Trucks……..in that order for me anyway…

My traveling days are over so I certainly enjoy you sharing this trip. Back in the 1970's I was involved with the High Iron Co. which ran steam excursions behind the 759 a former NKP Berkshire. For our over night swings we had the pleasure of sleeping in the restored Pullman cars the company owned. I still have my Pullman key. I got to view many interesting sites. Back then our railroad pass (I was employed by the Erie-Lackawanna) gave us carte blanche on foreign railroads. I was fortunate enough to travel to many parts of the USA. Your videos fill in the gaps of places I didn't visit. I've been retired from the railroad for 8 years. It's a shame the redundant trackage wasn't preserved. These lines could have been used for Amtrak service so they could have their own rail line and not share with the freight carriers. As always, I thank you for efforts and best of luck with the ETR. Take care and God bless.

I always miss your Florida meet up? I live near winter heaven

So sorry I missed you at the Plant City viewing platform. I was right there, coming from Tampa, Friday late afternoon after a visit to the Strawberry Festival.

Was hoping you'd stop at Tavares, Fl., and the Florida Central RR, a tourist train AND a RR crossing through a roundabout!

Great Video! I love the PT 17 Stearman, when I was in the CAP a guy that I flew with had one.

The FEC sure knows how to do “mixed freight”!

I used to live in East Tampa and saw all those old SCL trains before CSX took over. I remember waiting 30+ minutes for those phosphate trains to clear the crossings too. Brian if you make it to the Tampa area, off of 22nd street causeway and US 41 there is the loading docks where they have a rotary dumper for loading the ships. I'm in FTL now and those FEC trains fly by at 50mph or more.

Hope you had good weather. Been raining here in Florida for 3 days. Finally seeing the sun today.

Great video! You went to some of my favorite spots! And you got to fly in a Stearman!!

In addition to what Mike Skinner has already told you about the line which used to go through Bowling Green, Florida, the line was Atlantic Coast Line owned. It started in Lakeland, went down through Bartow, Ft. Meade, Bowling Green, Wauchula, Zolfo Springs, Arcadia - and on down through Punta Gorda and eventually to Ft. Myers, Naples and Vanderbilt Beach. Today, it stops a Ft. Meade. And it no longer exists out of Lakeland either but for a few miles south to an industrial area in Eaton Park. Traffic gets on and off of it now at Bartow via the old Seaboard Air Line. It resumes again southward at Arcadia and continues south to Ft. Myers. It was known as the ACL Ft. Myers/Naples branch. Prior to the merger with the Seaboard Air Line, it carried a lot of phosphate out of eastern Bone Valley for the ACL, up to Lakeland and across to Tampa and to the docks thereabouts. When the SAL merged with the ACL, the line was deemed "surplus" and much of it was abandoned and removed. Today, the Seminole Gulf is connected to the outside world via the old Seaboard line, which went down to the phosphate docks at Boca Grande. That old SAL line now ends at Arcadia, but ties into the ACL line there. And so, that is where the CSX and the Seminole Gulf exchange traffic today. As Mike said, what's left of the ACL is operated from Arcadia southward to Ft. Myers today by the Seminole Gulf RR. Incidentally, the north/south line you saw in Mulberry (the train was on it) was another ACL line into phosphate country out of Winston Yard (ACL) in Lakeland. You saw the diamond where it crossed the east/west (SAL) line in the middle of Mulberry. Of course, all that today is CSX. Hope Mike Skinner and I have answered your questions and hope you enjoyed Florida.

"Mrs. ETR" I love it!!

Next time you come back to Central Florida you can stop at Parish on the weekend to the Gulf Coast railroad. On the ex Seaboard Airline trackage. You can ride the line from Parish to Willow station. There is a section on the end of the line that has vintage cars and engines. You can even rent a locomotive to operate on the line at certain times.

If you ever have an opportunity to travel through Virginia, there are quite a few railroads running. Norfolk Southern and CSX obviously (both run through Hampton Roads and the majority of the state), plus some really cool short lines (Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line in South Norfolk, Shenandoah Valley Modern in Staunton, Buckingham Branch in Virginia Beach and Staunton, plus many, many others.) Thanks for sharing

Thanks for sharing this- one grandpa worked for SCL and my other grandpa worked in Phosphate mining

I think the extended draft gear on the caboose was a "cushion coupler" or "cushion draft gear." Basically a shock absorber to reduce load damage. You can see them on certain freight cars. I seem to recall that in one of your videos a crew member was riding on an extended lift bar of the kind used with such draft gear. Its length can change as the cushioned draft gear moves in and out. Also, the semaphores on the old station were train order boards. The station agent or operator would set them to stop if an oncoming train had to stop for train orders relayed from the dispatcher via telephone or telegraph to the station. Cheers from Wisconsin!

@mshum538

2 жыл бұрын

And what an era that was and now with radios you don’t have to wake up the operators with a blast on the horn because the operators are all gone….we had yellow and red boards and electric lamps……ms

Outstanding!

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers! B.

Great tour of Florida. Thanks for taking us along. I like stations and never too many cabooses! BTW, there is a great transportation museum (mostly trains) in Bowling Green Kentucky you should visit. Must have been lots of lawn bowling in the old days.

The steam loco was an 4-4-0 so it could not have been SAL 113. Next time you are in Florida, you need to take a trip to Winter Park. ( Not Winter Haven by the way ) And just North of New York Ave next to the tracks you will find some boxcars turned into offices. But the winner there is that the Southernmost car is a 1944 US Army Medical Corps car of the 89300 series.

That extention was probably put into place to allow space for crews to climb up to the roof to set brakes while train was in motion.

Florida East Coast locomotive 429. A GP 40, I love it

I enjoy your videos SO much! I regret that I didn’t get to Norfolk/Tidewater last weekend (I’m in southern DE, 2.3 hrs away) due to prior obligations. But I do hope you will come to the east coast again and to the birthplace of U.S. passenger rail: The B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore! My grandmother & her family lived in Ellicott City, first stop on the B&O. Baltimore City (and County; they’re separate jurisdictions) is STEEPED in railroad history AND American history, too. N.B.:The oldest standing railroad station structure west of Great Britain is near the foot of I-83 at President St., Baltimore. The history of Baltimore, U.S. railroads and America itself are literally coupled together. I wish you & yours total success!!

@mshum538

2 жыл бұрын

B&O A great railroad that gave me my start at the age of 3 on an S-2…..and 65 years later my wife and I ( a devoted RR wife ) have an awesome pension…..oh and thanks to the BofLE. A Great Organization, I didn’t say perfect but we have a lot to be thankful for……ms~~~

Nice video, thank's for sharing. Maybe consider a meet up at Rochelle Rail Park, Rochelle, IL this summer?

We have a 1885 Train Depot in Brooksville Fl. It is now a museum

Welcome to Florida

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks I loved it! B.

Man you missed some good places to visit. Lake Wales Railroad museum, Pioneer Park in Zolfo Springs has an old steam engine on display from the logging and phosphate industry, 5 minute drive from Bowling Green. You were within 10 miles of both places.

What a great video!

Looking forward to seeing you in Fullerton.

The car you referred to in the FEC freight as a pulpwood car is actually for hauling woodchips.

Awesome video!!!

Glad you took the opportunity to hitch a ride in a Stearman. And how appropriate that its colors are the same as the flag of Ukraine 🇺🇦. Way to go, ETR!

Missed a potential ETR Jaw Tooth meet up by about a week. Those aggregate hoppers are phosphate service. That Family Lines caboose was probably standard with the hydrocushion draft gear as there looks to be no kind of cushioning almost as if the caboose was being transported to it's final destination and needed to have a damaged draft gear/coupler replaced and that short rig was just good enough to pass regulations. Handy little app I put on my phone called Rail Guide can tell you what railroad is what and has a feature that allows you to tap on a classic view that'll show you what that bike trail or old row was.

Greetings from Fullerton Train Station. Jon, Rick and Chuck say hi. Buses, trains and planes. I shot about 3 or 4 trains before you exited the church to see the tank train.

@believeucanfly9975

2 жыл бұрын

J,R and C t was so nice to meet you'all! thanks for the fun and the information on SoCal railroading! Brian

@jonusle2937

2 жыл бұрын

@Believe U Can Fly I don't know when you flew home, but on the Monday after our visit. We had a runaway remote control train set hit a diamond protection derail in Colton, California. It put 3 locomotives and 13 cars on the ground. More sidebooms than you could shake a stick at. Keep up the great videos.

Mom and Dad used to live in Bowling Green Kentucky.

Don't see a lot of diamonds in the middle of grade crossings! Good stuff!

I'd love to see a Collab with Danny and ETR!

Any chance that the ETR will someday host passenger service either as part of a tourist line or a connecting link with another RR?. What a great accomplishment it would be if 'The Peoples Railroad' hosted passenger revenue service of some kind. We're rooting for it. If it happens I'm on my way from DC to take part in it.

Maybe you should find an old caboose. It would make a great field office for the ETR.

Awesome video with a nice variety, the 400.00 dollar Nissan just could not make the trip, oh well….👍

If your down in Florida, you should get with RailROL82, "The railroad archeologist" . He mostly does videos of abandon railroads and crossings, but Im sure he could do a video of the ETR.

I believe that the extended buck eye coupling is for extra shock absorbance. I've seen it on other videos of this, it has either hydrolic or other shock absorbers or springs, think it's for reducing the shock when trains are marshslled or starting and stopping. Especially on wagons with delicate goods. Up until recently we in the UK used buffers 2 of them, using a similar mechanism, either side of the coupling which had the same affect. What was that tall white industrial building which had towers or stacks used for? Thanks for anothe video of you railways,

I bet you'd find that most of those engines have spent their entire lives in the Bone Valley. Unless they need serious machine shop repairs, they have pretty much kept them on the Bone Valley area for their trains only. While it's all CSX down there it operates (or at least it used to, idk about now) as the "Florida Business Unit" as it's own railroad company practically. As to the line down in Bowling Green, it was redundant track. And like so many other lines that became redundant following the ACL / SAL merger, the company destroyed it in 1983 so they could become CSX in 1986. Their decisions on scrapping certain lines is a befuddlement even seasoned railroaders do not quite understand. But the general understanding is that they didn't need two routes from A to B and so they cut off the fat. You mentioned early on that only about half the railroads exist in Florida that were here originally. I'd say it's more like one fifth the railroads exist, rather than one half. The major problem that Florida now faces are all the little towns that sprung up between A and B, which were once served by the railroad, but had little or no significance to the company at the time. Today those little towns are booming cities with an industrial infrastructure that's missing a railroad. Had they not scrapped the tracks back in the 80s, those industrial parks today would have rail access and there would be less trucks on the highway. But the need for rail access has not justified the means to restore 20-40 miles of railroad tracks, not especially since the rail corridor has been developed upon heavily since the departure of the rails. The other problem is that some of the lines they chose to scrap in the 70's and 80s were only being held together for the passenger service that ran on them, so when the passenger trains ceased, the need for the tracks was no longer there. Freight customers were told to put it in a truck if they wanted to haul something and that was that... Well now the State of Florida is investing Millions of dollars rebuilding part of that infrastructure back just so they can connect what was once just a flag stop station called Orlando to the rest of the East Coast. The original route departed the ACL just south of Deland (Bensen Jct) and went East thru Bithlo, over to Mims and south into Titusville. Today they are taking the more direct route parallel SR 528. Anyhow, I'll get off my soapbox now. I grew up in Florida, watching all the rails disappear. I started my career on the railroad in Florida and I have a picture of me on a train sitting on tracks that no longer exist. It was surely a sign of the times.

Another cool video. If you have the knowledge, could you speak a bit more to the molten sulfur cars and where it comes from and where it may be going to? Is there an oil refinery, hot spring, or some other place this material is being recovered in the same area as the phos rock or does it come from elsewhere? We used to get some out of Martinique a long time ago. They've since switched processes. As you probably know, a lot of sulfur (made into sulfuric acid) and phos get united later in phosphoric acid, but that's a whole other industrial world and chemistry from that of simple phos rock mining and sulfur recovery. The sulfur could be coming from refineries further up the Atlantic coast. There are chemical manufacturing plants between Plant City and Bartow that make phosphoric acid for use in fertilizers (also manufactured in that area). Good to finally get to see some of this industrial area after years of doing business with them by phone and email.

Awesome video……. Thanks for sharing loads of history with us 👍

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Alco, 1st to class today, good work! Brian

@ernestpassaro9663

2 жыл бұрын

Great video

@ernestpassaro9663

2 жыл бұрын

45 tonner?

A few comments: Bowling Green(FL)was on the ACL line through Arcadia(where CSX interchanges with Seminole Gulf)on down to Punta Gorda and Ft. Myers. Seminole Gulf now operates that line for freight-and a murder mystery dinner train-to just north of Naples The ex-SAL line goes more directly to the phosphate mining area. The pulled up ex-double track doesn't mean less traffic, but is a result of only needing one track because of CTC and much longer trains. Easier to maintain one heavy railed track than 2 medium. There are also some no longer used spurs to now defunct phosphate mines/processing plants. IDK if you got to Ft. Meade, but there is an Alco road switcher and a couple of passenger cars there used as a classroom(sorta)for the phosphate mining industry. As stated before, the FEC main will be shared by Brightline passenger trains(Miami-Orlando)and FEC freight. The blue FEC unit is a GP-40(2?). Interestingly, the F$C used to be double track most of the way from Miami to Jacksonville, but was changed to single track with spaced passing sidings and TC. Now they're reinstalling a second track for Brightline as far north as Cocoa. Fortunately, the ROW is still there. There are "cabeese" available to get for a remote office once you're up and running. (Ozark Mountain Railcar and others)

@mikeskinner45

2 жыл бұрын

Oops! Typo. Should be FEC, not F$C. My bad.

A old caboose on a short set of rails would make a good on sit office for the etr

F.y.i. 53 foot containers ONLY carry domestic traffic. The 45,40and 20s are sea cans used for ocean shipping the 53s and 28s (UPS only) are domestic traffic

@victorv2066

2 жыл бұрын

Virtually all of the containers were Seaboard Shipping (in blue) units (No other major ocean carriers on this mix) because they call at the Port of Miami heavily from many Caribbean islands and Central American ports. The major lines call at Charleston and Savannah for their land bridge rail traffic to Atlanta, the South, and the Gulf coast.

It may be a Floating Center Sill has a hydraulic device to ease the ride saw a lot used on Box Cars

Sea board 113 is a 2-6-0 a Mogul the older loco found in the mine is certainly not a mogul

the other caboose is painted correct but this area might be old Seaboard Air line and Altantic Coast Line use to meet FEC. This railroad merge in 1968 and because Seaboard Coast Line

Distant Signal is very nice

Far as that bridge is concerned it's a new bridge because Florida's high speed rail bright line will be expanding service soon and they wanted to get that new bridge constructed so they can open a new station in the northbound section

The State of Florida purchased the right-of-way from the Florida East Coast Railroad and leases it back to both that railroad and Brightline. Brightline will eventually go through Orlando and West to Tampa.

Going to guess that the Locomotive found in the mines is not the 113 as you can see the 113 had at least 6 driving wheels, while the driving wheels on the found loco are still intact, there is only 4, I think it was likely a 4-4-0 locomotive and not the 2-6-0 that I believe the 113 was.

ETR needs a caboose.

@eastterminalrailway5975

2 жыл бұрын

Tommy We would hang out and drink even MORE coffee and eat even MORE donuts! Brian

@tommyhunter1817

2 жыл бұрын

@@eastterminalrailway5975 EXACTLY. Make a great place for safety meetings too.

If you guys get a chance to auburndale FL because there is a good amount of industry there and switching and also go to the Florida Midland railroad the North Branch of it that heads down to Bartow Florida it ends at Bartow executive Airport and also there are some really unique and interesting switch there I think you would really like

Great job Brian! Loved it!! Except...who was the strange looking character holding the crossing sign in Melbourne? ... Oh, nevermind...it was me. 😂😂 Had a great day with you and Mrs. ETR. Hope to see you again soon.

I sent your video to Danny Harmon, I know he'd really would appreciate you.

New rail for the curve ..

I’m really surprised that the Eastern Seaboard runs longhood forward. I’m used to the dreaded union Pacific down here in Arizona where everything is shorthood forward.

@gcress7622

2 жыл бұрын

That Train was probably the construction contractor delivering ballast for the brightside route into Orlando International Airport

You mentioned a "Meet-up" in California at a "Santa Fe Depot" .... The location was not clear there are many of them. Thanks

Brian, unusual to see a half Y.

Nice

Nice Vid. But we don't have Routes in Fla. State Road 37.

Those pot belly stoves in cabooses get so hot that you have to open the door a crack so you don’t overheat yourself. Are you going to buy a caboose for the ETR to camp out in every know and then?

the double caboose is a altantic coast line and probably a southern railway

wish i would have know you where on the east coast. i live an hour south of melbourne

I see someone put Seaboard Coast Line on the bottom too

Cushion draw bar on the van

How about heading up to Toledo sometime?

Interesting, my Google earth is dated 2022 and does not show the Southbound CSX entering the diamond.

You need to find a retired caboose and set against a bumper on the rails as an onsite office. Paint it up in ETR colors to match 2022.

@mshum538

2 жыл бұрын

Probably not feasible since the RR’s wont haul them in because they wont past inspections ( fra ) and the break down and ship by truck has skyrocketed and I’m sure the boss here knows having shipped in his sweet little 40 tonner……ms

@rickashford4005

2 жыл бұрын

@@mshum538 ... I bought an old caboose years ago and made woodworking/model airplane shop out of it. A guy in Fort Scott, Kansas had 3 of them, and practically was giving them away z just to get rid of them. Me and a friend borrowed another friend's 53' spread axle drop deck trailer and went and got it ourselves. He had a Pete 379 with a Fuller 15 speed, deep reduction transmission. It really helps when we were all in the trucking business. We got it moved and set up on my property... and in another year, I got transferred from Shreveport to Fort Worth. I hated to leave it, but it got sold with the house and the 3.3 acres.

@mshum538

2 жыл бұрын

@@rickashford4005 Rick, that is awesome and I’m not saying it cant be done but you coordinated the move and plus the later ones have cement floors, good going…..