Model Railroading > Citrus Express, finally. (UPDATED, NEW VIDEOS)

Over the past almost 2 years I've been working on the Tampa Northern, building a railroad, developing an image, putting that image forward for all to see with locomotives and cars..  One of the things, and what brought the Tampa Northern from a switching and terminal operation, to a class 1, was the development of the Citrus Express. 

Without further delay, I present to you the Tampa Northerns premier train, the Citrus Express. 

Video 2.  3 U33Bs hustle the famed Citrus Express toward its destination.

Video 3.  3 SD45s, including a hinose unit, handle the Citrus Express.  The hinose unit was done to honor my very good friend Robert Harpe who passed away last April.  He was a huge fan of the southern railway and an outstanding modeler and person as well.  

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Thanks

Denis Blake



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/07/25 20:41 by SALGUY.

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Yes guys, it's a bit fast.  I figure if it makes a test good at speed, it's good for slow speed as well.  

Very sharp with matching locomotives!  Looks great.

Gary

SALGUY Wrote:
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> Yes guys, it's a bit fast.  

Fast was normal and required on my stretch of the SAL.  No.86 - the Fox and no.280 would sometimes catch E-units for power.  I still remember the cool spray of melted ice coming off the fast moving Fruit Growers "yellow-belly" reefers.  You got a good looking train.
 

Folks don't realize that the Seaboard was a very fast moving railroad.  For several years in the mid 60s, TT23 was recognized, by Trains Magazine, as the fastest freight train in North America.  Their E units were geared for 117mph, and proved it, daily.  Their SDP35Ss were set up for 95mph running.  The SAL was no slouch.  

Thank you for your kind words.  

Denis Blake
TTHOTS

WP921 Wrote:
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> Very sharp with matching locomotives!  Looks
> great.
>
> Gary

Gary, thank you.  I used the SALs jolly green giant green as the basis for my paintscheme.  These units are painted with Tamiya Park Green.  Personally, I think they look awesome. 

DB

And if you remember a fine mist spraying on you trackside from a fast passenger train, that was something else... Hee, Hee!

Victor Baird

Notch7 Wrote:
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> SALGUY Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Yes guys, it's a bit fast.  
>
> Fast was normal and required on my stretch of the
> SAL.  No.86 - the Fox and no.280 would sometimes
> catch E-units for power.  I still remember the
> cool spray of melted ice coming off the fast
> moving Fruit Growers "yellow-belly" reefers.  You
> got a good looking train.
>  



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/08/25 17:50 by wabash2800.

Victor

Indeed it was something else.  Let's just say the bathroom facilities dropped straight to the road bed.  

DB

Sorry, way off topic, but I remember when filming trains at Highwood, IL ,on the C&NW, the toilet paper tinted with brown on the tracks in front of the station. I had my kid sister with me and she once asked what that was. My reply was, "what do you think it  is?" When my mom was a child in WWII Germany, she would have to ride a train to school. As pranksters, kids would flush the train toilets at the station stop. I'm sure it was a prank here in the U.S. too. That's something I don't have to necessarily model that on my model railroad... <G>

Victor Baird

SALGUY Wrote:
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> Victor
>
> Indeed it was something else.  Let's just say the
> bathroom facilities dropped straight to the road
> bed.  
>
> DB



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/09/25 09:35 by wabash2800.

I notice the U33's aren't smoking and refusing to load....what's yer secret?

engineerinvirginia Wrote:
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> I notice the U33's aren't smoking and refusing to
> load....what's yer secret?

An excellent mechanical crew that's been model railroading for over 50 years.  One who grew up with Athearn Blue Boxes and understands them better thak i understand my wife of almost 33 years.   Lol