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.

With 8 sand hoppers for storage in tow, Vermilion Valley Railroad's 8310 drops down into the Wabash River Valley between Foster and Olin, Indiana. Steve Smedley photo