#103 has been running with hefty trains in late 2024, and typically just with a power set like what you see here. Today's train was somewhere around 8000 feet. A lot of this traffic is forwarded ... (more)

FEC Heritage the lead motor wears the 1940's / 50's Champion livery whilst the 2nd wears "Retro Blue" from he 1960's.

FEC 716 and FEC 426 lead train 103 southbound across the Crane Creek bridge in downtown, Melbourne, Florida.

FEC #716 leads an Asplundh weed spray train towards Miami. The boxcar at the end of the train still wears an SCL/L&N Family Lines emblem.

With the Cemex crew aboard, the Unit Train has dropped the head end of their train for local #915 and are picking up hoppers the local brought in to add to Cemex's train. This doesn't happen ever... (more)

Under Cemex remote control, with that hopper behind the 430, the Unit Train is unloading into the late afternoon. Nice set of power. Recent painting & dispersal of the GE fleet has seemingly for... (more)

Tu-Sa #103 now actually leaves Bowden ahead of #101 but typically ends up behind them with work and crew swaps, not to mention Brightline, slowing their roll. It's still a fine catch, almost alwa... (more)

2015 saw a majority of FEC's six axle EMD fleet in lease service to CSXT. Many assigned to Bone Valley local service....or, in this case, remote yard duty. "Taken with permission"

Northbound rock train 336 passes over the new Crane Creek bridge in Melbourne with a pair of SD40-2s for power.

The first six months of 2015 saw something most peculiar in Florida, the CSXT lease of FEC six-axles. They had four SD70M-2 and most of the SD40-2 fleet. Used primarily for the heavy rock traffi... (more)

FEC 716, FEC 703, and FEC 428, lead a long FEC 336 rock train north across the Crane Creek Bridge in downtown Melbourne. Note the dolphin in the water below the lead engine. Construction work co... (more)

FEC SD40-2s 716, 713 and GP38-2 508 take a large cut of empty rock hoppers back to Medley for loading. The pair of SD40-2s were likely the power for northbound Medley to Cocoa rock train 336.

FEC train 335 (empty unit rock) rolls southbound through downtown West Palm Beach at MP 300. Ex-UP SD40-2s look sharp in FEC's "heritage" color scheme.

FEC 716 leads train FEC 109 south past the signal at MP 188.6 in Melbourne, Florida.

The Florida East Coast Railway's unit train sits on the lead at city point ready to be taken south that evening as train 335. The first Ortner hopper on the train is unique as it holds the remote ... (more)