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Image 1 - Florida East Coast 410, GP40, at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, intermodal yard April 17, 2007.

2- FEC 15249 potash-? hopper car at Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  April 17, 2007



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/01/16 09:07 by cozephyr.

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1-FEC 410 switched the intermodal yard as jet landed at nearby Fort Lauderdale International Airport, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 17, 2007.

2-FEC 436 north on unit hopper train crossed water in central Florida, Stuart, FL, April 17, 2007.

3-Dolphins in the bay April 17, 2007 at Stuart, Florida.

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cozephyr Wrote:
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> 2- FEC 15249 potash-? hopper car at Fort
> Lauderdale, Florida.  April 17, 2007

Crushed Limestone from quarries NW of Hialeah Yard for aggregate distribution sites along the FEC stretching all the way to Jacksonville.

Cool, you covered land, sea and air  : )
John

When I worked for the FEC back in the mid 80's we had a unit train that ran 2 gp40-2. I think the rock came from either Lone Star or Rinker plants just west of Medly. I used to love the unit train job. we would be driven out to the quarry about half way thru loading. Then we would take the train thru the Hialeah yard aound the Y and straight out north to Fort Pierce where another  crew would take the rock further north to unload and then we would pick up the empty unit train and go back thru the Hialeah yard and the Y and head out to the rock quarry for the refill of the next loads of rock.
Robert