by John Beers II
FEC #673 at Fort Pierce, 1989.
FEC #506 switching at Boca Raton, mid-1980s.
FEC #s 673 and 675 at Fort Pierce, 1989.
FEC #668 at Hialeah Yard (Miami), about 1988.
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Maintainence-of-way train sided at Delray Beach.
FEC #113 preserved at the Gold Coast RR Museum, Miami, 1990.
FEC #3719, formerly a Railway Post Office/Combine, in Boca Raton about 1987.
FEC #511, A GP 38-2 at Fort Lauderdale.
FEC #611, still with gold logo & numbers, crosses the New River bridge in Ft. Lauderdale, about 1985.
FEC #715, a steam era caboose on display in Homestead, about 1990.
Veteran GP-9 units line up with others at the Hialeah Yard near Miami, 1988.
FEC #3775 M-of-W car was originally FEC #607, at Ft Pierce in 1989.
Abandoned Titusville branch tracks end in the remote Florida outback.
Bridge over Bahia Honda on the abandoned Key West Extension.
A highway was built on top of it in 1938.
Photo taken in 1982, when you could still climb
on the bridge from the West end.
A highway was built on top of it in 1938.
Photo taken in 1982, when you could still climb
on the bridge from the West end.
The abandoned right-of-way looking north from Florida City.
Grade crossing along the abandoned St. Augustine-Palatka branch, 1999.
FEC #667 in front of Ft Pierce yard office.
FEC #3783 is a Maintainence-of-Way water tank car,
built in the 1920's.
built in the 1920's.
Ft. Lauderdale intermodal yard, looking north about 1988.
I-95 crosses former right-of-way of the abandoned
Maytown/Kissimmee Valley branch, 1999.
Maytown/Kissimmee Valley branch, 1999.
End of FEC right-of-way (looking South), bottom of Florida City, about 1988.
Span of the original seven mile bridge along the Key West extension,
photographed in the late1980's.
A highway was built over it after the FEC abandoned following the 1935 hurricane.
photographed in the late1980's.
A highway was built over it after the FEC abandoned following the 1935 hurricane.
FEC #436 in Pompano Beach, about 1987.
Interlocking shack at former SCL crossing (now removed)
at Pt. Everglades, about 1987.
at Pt. Everglades, about 1987.
Former right-of-way along the abandoned Titusville-Bensen Jct branch, 1999.
FEC #3766 in maintainence train near Delray Beach, late 1980s.
Looking North on the tracks at the intermodal yard in Ft. Lauderdale.
The bridge crossing the New River in Ft Lauderdale
is raised in this late '80s scene.
is raised in this late '80s scene.
FEC GP-40 #425 is in tandem with #426 pulling through Fort Pierce,
June 1997.
June 1997.
Standing under the I-95 overpass looking northwest to the switch on the abandoned Aurantia siding, 1998.
FEC 430, a GP 40-2, at the north end of the shop
at Bowden in Jacksonville,
July 2002.
at Bowden in Jacksonville,
July 2002.
Abandon FEC tracks about a mile west of Edgewater,
on the old Kissimee Valley/Maytown Jct branch,
July, 2002.
on the old Kissimee Valley/Maytown Jct branch,
July, 2002.
FEC #415 is M.U.'d with #444 at Bowden yard in December, 2005. The "Azalea" can be seen poking out of the shed at far left.
Locomotive line up at Bowden, looking south December 2005.
Business Car of the Florida East Coast Railway, the Azalea, is a pristine survivor of the FEC's passenger car roster.
Bowden Yard, Jacksonville December 2005.
Bowden Yard, Jacksonville December 2005.
Assortment of MOW cars and a GP9 dead-line at New Smyrna Beach shops, 2003.
FEC #703, an SD 40-2 and amongst the Railway's first
six axle freight locomotives & sporting an unusual paint scheme,
in downtown Ft. Lauderdale just North of the New River bridge, December 2005.
six axle freight locomotives & sporting an unusual paint scheme,
in downtown Ft. Lauderdale just North of the New River bridge, December 2005.