What It Was

Two Florida East Coast Railway ES44C4’s split by a company liquified natural gas fuel tender take in the superelevated curve at MP 335 right before the Cypress Creek Canal. #FEC817, one of 23 GEVOs on the roster, takes the charge on southbound train 103-26, a Jacksonville to Miami manifest with 155 cars for FEC’s southernmost terminal.

 

Scenes of regular mid-afternoon southbound manifests on the FEC mainline between West Palm Beach and Miami have now become scenes one would wish to see, and not expect. Later on in 2022, FEC management would fiddle with their train lineups and adjust trains 103 and 204 to terminate and originate, respectively, in Fort Pierce, FL, it being one of the smaller terminals along the mainline that still received a significant amount of traffic. From then on, southbound manifest traffic would be split up between the three remaining road freights to Hialeah Yard, trains 101, 105 and 107.

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Pompano Beach, FL

FEC Mainline

 

Date: 03/26/2022 | 14:29

 

ID: FEC 103-26

Type: Manifest

Direction: Southbound

Car Count: 155

 

1. FEC ES44C4 #817

2. FEC ES44C4 #808

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© Vicente Alonso 2022

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