Auburndale Sub Action
Just another frame from this fun lucky bonus train from my recent trip to the Sunshine State.
CSXT Waycross to Miami train Q453 charges through Okeechobee pastthe Walpole Feed Mill (which is a railroad customer) at about MP SX908.9 on CSXT's Auburndale Subdivision. This freight and counterpart Q452 are the only scheduled through trains on the southern end of this line account Florida East Coast has cornered the intermodal market thanks to their shorter, faster and superior route.
The Auburndale Sub is CSXT's mainline to Miami, and is interesting in that it was one of the last major railroads buit in the US. The 204 mile line from Coleman was chartered as the Florida Western and Northern Railroad (an SAL subsidiary) in April 1924 during the period of the great Florida land boom and construction began shortly after. The line was championed by Seaboard president S. Davies Warfield who had an ambitious plan to connect the Seaboard network to the South Florida region, which for almost thirty years had been the exclusive domain of the Florida East Coast Railway. The line's final spike was placed on January 21, 1925 and four days later, a special section of the Seaboard's Orange Blossom Special ran to West Palm Beach officially inaugurating service. After terminating in West Palm Beach for two years it was extended to Miami, with SAL rails eventually reaching the southern tip of Florida at Homestead.
Okeechobee, Florida
Saturday April 23, 2022
Auburndale Sub Action
Just another frame from this fun lucky bonus train from my recent trip to the Sunshine State.
CSXT Waycross to Miami train Q453 charges through Okeechobee pastthe Walpole Feed Mill (which is a railroad customer) at about MP SX908.9 on CSXT's Auburndale Subdivision. This freight and counterpart Q452 are the only scheduled through trains on the southern end of this line account Florida East Coast has cornered the intermodal market thanks to their shorter, faster and superior route.
The Auburndale Sub is CSXT's mainline to Miami, and is interesting in that it was one of the last major railroads buit in the US. The 204 mile line from Coleman was chartered as the Florida Western and Northern Railroad (an SAL subsidiary) in April 1924 during the period of the great Florida land boom and construction began shortly after. The line was championed by Seaboard president S. Davies Warfield who had an ambitious plan to connect the Seaboard network to the South Florida region, which for almost thirty years had been the exclusive domain of the Florida East Coast Railway. The line's final spike was placed on January 21, 1925 and four days later, a special section of the Seaboard's Orange Blossom Special ran to West Palm Beach officially inaugurating service. After terminating in West Palm Beach for two years it was extended to Miami, with SAL rails eventually reaching the southern tip of Florida at Homestead.
Okeechobee, Florida
Saturday April 23, 2022