Florida East Coast Railway Locomotives

The florida east coast railway fec is a class ii regional railroad that owns all of the 351 mile mainline track from jacksonville fl down to miami.

Florida east coast railway locomotives. The latest news and analysis of the global railway industry from the world s leading international publication. It even pulled a train carrying president calvin coolidge to miami in 1928. Built primarily in the last quarter of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century the fec was a project of standard oil principal henry flagler he originally visited florida with his first wife mary. It is the exclusive rail provider for portmiami port everglades and port of palm beach.

Locomotive 1 was sold to the natchitoches parish port in natchitoches louisiana while locomotive 3 was sold to the madison railroad in madison indiana where it is used for regular freight service. Interestingly as harold mayer points out in his article rich road poor road from the april 1941 issue of trains magazine flagler s eventual florida east coast system wasn t the first proposal for a rail line to southern florida. Florida east coast railway fecr is about to take delivery of the first of 24 new tier 3 locomotives acquired from ge transportation ge. Before the florida east coast.

The fec locomotive 153 served on the florida east coast railway from 1922 to 1938. State of florida currently owned by grupo méxico. 10 may 2017 thomas h. Fec 113 was one of a group of 60 pacifics 77 136 built by alco between 1910 and 1917.

They sought assistance with. The florida east coast railway reporting mark fec is a class ii railroad operating in the u s. Florida east coast photographic roster. Parker photo jacksonville fl dec.

9 officially rolled out its 24 unit fleet consisting of 12 pairs of back to back ge es44acs with a purpose built chart industries fuel tender in between at bowden yard jacksonville. Unit notes model serial pictures. The new locomotives will be used in thru freight heavy haul service on the railway s 351 mile mainline route between jacksonville and miami florida. Florida east coast railway has become the first north american railroad to adopt lng liquefied natural gas for its entire line haul locomotive fleet.

It was used in regular revenue service over the entire florida east coast railroad. Fecr a class ii regional is also the first.