Eastern Railroad Discussion > new dinner train in central fla

the old mont dora and eustis rr is no more. a new owner bought the dinner train and will run out of eustis starting this fri night , the name of the rr will be the inland lakes rr and will run from downtown eustis to lake jem and will have some specials run to olando. here is a picture of there engine it was just painted this week .

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sorry for the poor lighting does anyone know the histoy of this engine? i think its a ex ic gp-10

sorry won,t load any more pictures tred 3 times will try and add tomoorow

Ex IC 8330, rebuilt from a cabless UP GP9B, hence the GP11-style "Paducah cab" on this one instead of the round roof GP9 style cab typical to most ex IC GP8/10 types. It last served on Gulf & Ohio Railways' Nash County Railway out of Rocky Mount, NC prior to "retiring" to Florida.

Mike Derrick
http://www.shortlinesusa.com

The new shortline operators have a vista-dome (SILVER BRIDLE) coming to the property. From one of thie officers:

"The Silver Bridle is expected to leave New Orleans within a week or so. It has been rebuilt with head end power, 16 tons of new air conditioning, and all new windows both upstairs and down. When it gets to Florida, we will make the final rebuilds. The dome area will seat 24 for dinner/lunch and the lower large end 26. The small lower end will be a lounge area. We hope to have it in service by December 1."