"Why I rose before the sun on our Florida family beach vacation."

With a palm tree, boat and channel marker in a tidal estuary with an FEC train passing by, this photo is how I like to picture Florida.

The single GP40-2 in charge of FEC local 915 is in the process of running around its train at Palm Bay siding. The crew has had a busy morning switching industries and also doing a little ballast... (more)

All is quiet at the south end of the Palm Bay siding as a Falcon 9 rocket lifts two satellites into space at 10:50 pm. Four minutes before the launch, the southbound FEC train 335 cleared the bloc... (more)

FEC 811 and FEC 822 lead a solid set of 87 loaded NS coal cars across the Turkey Creek Bridge in Palm Bay.

Southbound traffic on the FEC is starting to get back to normal after a derailment in Jacksonville had an effect on traffic. Here FEC 717 and FEC 709 lead a long intermodal train across the Turke... (more)

FEC 107 leads CITX 142 and FEC train 210 north across the Turkey Creek Bridge.

Florida East Coast Champion Heritage 714 and FEC 439 pull a special FEC and CSX business train southbound through the Palm Bay siding towards Miami. The cars are the FEC power car, Azalea, and St... (more)

Florida East Coast train 107, with FEC 708 and FEC 715, waits in the siding as the northbound train 222 slowly pulls up to a stop next to them on the main line. The crews will swap trains and the... (more)

Matching SD70s in FailAmerica paint look good crossing Turkey Creek as "Buddy" watches on.

The lesser photographed side of the Turkey Creek bridge, and my favorite by far.

Rolling through Palm Bay, the FEC celebrates the holidays Florida Style with a Toys for Tots special to help the needy. It was nice to see the 2000 alive again.

FEC 103 and 102 lead train 208 northbound across Turkey Creek. this is FEC 103's first time leading on the FEC.

A trio of GP40 in Anniversery Paint Scheme, along with a GP38, leads on of the first trains south after Hurricane Frances.