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Seeking to extend HO scale model RR to "Florida". My era is 1950s. Want suggestions and possibly pics of Florida Coast line, RR related small industry. Citrus??? Banannas??? Coquina??? Don't want anything huge....small buildings and industry. What kind of RR cars and locomotive should be in the area of Florida between St. Augustine and Daytona???? I want to stay on the coastline.... I know nothing of rail operations in this area.........can anyone help???
Posts: 14 | From: Plainville, CT | Registered: Oct 2002
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Florida East Coast...you're talkin' big-time FEC if you're talking Daytona and St. Augustine...FEC was a colorful railroad in the 1950s..they had that attractive red and yellow "Flagler" scheme on their locomotives (although it often faded in the hot FLA sun...)For road power in the 50s, the FEC had F-3s (A and B units) and GP 7s and 9s...they also had some of those BL 2 units, EMD's attempt to produce a geep before the geep....For passenger power, the FEC had E3 E6, E7 and E9 units....They also had SW 9 and SW 1200 switchers...all in all, a fairly easy railroad and time period to model, and a nice-looking prototype....Cargoes/freight shipped: LOTS of perishables and citrus-type products in ice-box and later refrigerated reefers (bring on the oranges and bananas...)...ocean-bound traffic from all over the country (Miami was a destination point for a lot of that stuff)in boxcars from all over...probably some of the other usual stuff like gondolas for scrap, but needless to say, probably not any home-road coal hoppers....Beyond that, I don't know all that much about the FEC but it's fairly well-documented on the web and I think there has just been an FEC Historical Society formed...Anyway, good luck and good modeling... Bud
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