A weekend run from the yard at Vulcan (Toronto) to The Park (Silver Star Branch). The Port Manatee lettering had been painted over, but managed to bleed back thru...which is fitting since the sam... (more)

Manatee Sighting. Florida Central Railroad (FCEN) GP9RM locomotives 7063 and 7033 are seen switching cars at Modello Yard. Both units are former Canadian National, though 7063 had a st... (more)

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

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.

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.

Rare daylight interchange from FCEN to CSXT via CFRC heading south to Taft Yard....on a Sunday, no less.

One of the very rare movements east of Mount Dora, wrapping up a storage move on he Sorrento Branch. This line has an uncertain future.

FCEN returns from a storage train move on a route that has no freight customers. This recreated a scene not seen since the 1990's on this line. Today mostly tourist trains run here.

FCEN movements over the US 441 bridge generally happens maybe once every few years. Here seen returning from a storage move on the Sorrento Branch.