Florida Central Railroad

Great pictures. If Atlas made an O gauge CF-7 I would definitely get one in Florida Central. Whenever I am at the Fire College in Ocala I usually get to see a FCEN CF-7 switching freight cars.

well put together topic and most interesting pics.

 

Keep up the good work and thanks for posting on the 

 

Forum !!

 

Rufus

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Thanks for posting .  I’ve been admiring those Florida Central diesels ever since they first arrived in town sometime back in the 1980’s.  Their passenger cars are nice, too.  They used to run a dinner train with those cars from Altamonte up to Eustis which my wife and I and another couple rode once.  As I recall, the dinner train didn’t last long.

 

As far as I know Lionel never made any Florida Central rolling stock and I don’t think MTH or K-Line did either.  But not sure about Weaver or Atlas O, though.

 

Bill (also near Orlando) 

Yep, that crop of 6-8 CF7's have served them well over the years.  When a line has only a dozen or so locomotives, seeing a specific one is like seeing an old friend you know.  

Neat!  Would like to have done the dinner train thing.  Yeah, I've been looking for FCEN stuff for years, never had any luck.

 

If one were to have a custom shell made of just about anyhing on the FCEN roster, I suppose for FULL authenticity it would need to be modified from an ATSF.  

i posted a shot of some of their passenger cars, including the observation car, a few years ago.

 

if i can locate, will repost.

 

in the meantime, this little beauty has been parked near their apopka HQ for a few months.

 

backstory???

I saw them interchanging (I think) with CSX on the way to Blue Springs this weekend from SWFL. The only railroad around my home is the Seminole Gulf, which only runs about 10-15 mph on the main. They run freight trains through my area a couple times a week.

I like the fact that there are other railroads here in Florida besides the two main players; CSX and FEC. Have seen Florida Central a time or two driving along the interstate routes here in FL.

Now for somebody to do a custom run for a small RR, it may main big bucks($100.00 or more) to spray paint a shell of an engine for an independant RR. At least that is what a guy wanted here in WPB to do one for me, I declined as I thought it was too expensive.

 

Lee F.

Here's the story on that one:

www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoPicture.aspx?id=120339

 

Quite a beauty back in the day:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.n...ture.aspx?id=2687018

Looking for Florida Central trains try the small Gun shop/train store in St. Augustine that is the only line they carry. They are on Rt. 16 and listed in the phone book. Stopped there on a visit to the outlaws ooops in-laws.  

Nelson:

 

I’m not familiar with that shop.  Are you sure that they carry only Florida CENTRAL trains?  Did you mean Florida East Coast?  With the FEC being the only railroad running through St. Augustine and having a large office in St. Augustine, I would think they would definitely carry FEC.  The Florida Central doesn’t run anywhere close to St. Augustine.

 

Bill  

here's the observation car, the Sam Pinsly (who is, i believe, the guy who owns this and similar roads around the south).