If you look back thru history, you will find FEC has traditionally gone thru some kind of power shake-up in the Jan-Feb timeframe. In this case, they put all of their SD40-2 on lease to CSXT, pri... (more)

Loaded Martin Marietta rock train for Mulberry passing the classic ACL signals with leased FEC power.

In early 2014, we couldn't imagine our EMD safe haven shattered by the presence of GE's....

After meeting FEC train 210, FEC 710 and FEC 419 lead a long string of Crowley containers on FEC train 109 out of the Palm Bay siding a few days after Thanksgiving.

A look at the Florida East Coast Railway's New Smyrna Beach locomotive shops at sunset. The string of SD40-2s in the FEC's UP paint scheme are currently in storage. Behind the shop, a GP38-2 in th... (more)

It's two days before Christmas as FEC 710 and FEC 702 lead the hot intermodal train 101 south across the Crane Creek bridge in downtown Melbourne.

FEC 710 leads a northbound Hialeah to Bowden intermodal over the San Sebastian River bridge in St. Augustine, FL

FEC SD40-2s 710 and 709 head back to the yard at Hialeah from the Port of Miami, light power, unfortunately! They're seen here banging across the diamond with CSXT's Miami Sub at Iris.

A photo that could have been taken in 2009.

Blast from the past! FEC 226 makes its way north through St Augustine after the passing of the Christmas train with a pair of EMDs leading.

It is a beautiful Thanksgiving morning as FEC 710 leads newly painted FEC 419 out of the siding at Palm Bay. With the new FEC GE ES44Cs now arriving, SD40-2s on the point of FEC trains may be a t... (more)

It is a beautiful Thanksgiving morning as FEC 710 leads newly painted FEC 419 down the siding in Palm Bay. The train is preparing to stop and wait for the arrival of the northbound train 210, so ... (more)

FEC 710 leads newly painted FEC 419 southbound across the Crane Creek Bridge in downtown Melbourne on a beautiful Thanksgiving morning.

226 heads north through Stuart with a pair of SD40-2s.

You can say that the FEC is a holdout for 2nd generation EMD power. Not many places you will find SD40-2's and GP40-2's on the point of hot stack and intermodal trains. But here, you do.