Southbound racks swing thru downtown Ocala.

A delivery of 18 new baggage cars got some special power for the occasion.

Having run down across the Manatee River, the power has run around the train and will return to Tampa with #2 leading.

Stored on the CaterParrott Railnet.

FRA 220 heading from Charleston to Savannah.

Now wearing the third coat of paint since going on display here, the ex-Mosaic/Cargill/NYSW RS1 now wears "Atlantic Coast Line", the number reflects the date of Fort Meade's establishmen... (more)

Nashville to Nashville. The former Nashville, TN Broadway Dinner Train motor that later ran for the TCRY excursion trains is being prepped for Azalea Sprinter service in Nashville, GA.

What we have here is an aborted run of the OCS to Saint Petersburg heading back to Jacksonville, meeting a monster M453 heading south, thus bypassing the famous street running. Silver linings pla... (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)

A bit of obvious heritage here. You should see what they have in Gainesville..... This loco sits, more or less, right across the highway from the Feld Entertainment offices, where the old circus... (more)

OCS on the Manatee. This was the final leg of a day-long run across the Bone Valley, leading (as usual) to speculation about its future. Since 2021, the train has now made three trips into the r... (more)

#2 leading on 2-22. How about that. This is the first time I can remember the OCS moving through here in many, many years. The brass toured the Bone Valley from Tampa eastward (both railroad south... (more)

OCS is on the final portion of its all-day Bone Valley tour, heading straight down to Bradenton. The bridge tender here controls Alafia, Little Manatee and Manatee River bridges.

If this was an excursion, this would be the epitome of "rare mileage", the OCS toured the entire Bone Valley on this day and in doing so ran into areas they had to run around the train, this allow... (more)