Thank-you for posting some nice pictures of the various E7's you encountered in the south.
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Now that is cool.
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Although the Florida East Coast handled most south Florida-bound passenger trains, the Seaboard's "Silver Fleet" was not among them, as the SAL had its own line to Miami further inland. When the strike occurred, SAL had to then accommodate all the FEC's connections as well. These also included services from Chicago (IC's City of Miami from Central Station, Pennsy's South Wind from Union Station, and the C&EI-L&N-NC&StL-ACL Dixie Flagler from Dearborn Station, as well as Southern's Royal Palm from Cincinnati.) As a consequence, FEC provided cars for all its interline connections, so there were FEC cars in Pennsy Tuscan Red, ACL purple, IC Tangerine and Chocolate, and Southern's stainless, including a Royal-series sleeper-lounge- observation which is FEC's business car Azeala today. The Chicago trains all ran every third day to jointly-provide a daily Chicago-Florida service. SAL bought much of the FEC passenger car fleet to handle the capacity that was lost when the labor strife and violence shut down FEC passenger service. The IC bought the road's E9 passenger units, while the E6s and E7s were scrapped.
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