Florida East Coast Railway AAPRCO Special 2009


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Florida East Coast Railway AAPRCO Special 2009

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On November 3 & 4 of 2009, FEC hosted the AAPRCO special, running a round trip from Jacksonville to Kennedy Space Center and historic Saint Augustine. While the train was originally scheduled to run on NASA's railroad, it ended up having to use FEC's City Point facilities to detrain passengers for bus travel & turn the consist. The lack of the NASA run notwithstanding, some rare mileage was, indeed, racked up when the train ran every remaining mile of rail on the old Palatka Branch out of Saint Augustine via Moultrie Junction. How rare is this mileage, you ask? The railroad from Palatka to Moultrie Junction was built by the The Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax River Railway. The Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Indian River Railway took it over by 1894 it became the Florida East Coast Railway in 1895. The line was the main route until the construction of the Moultrie Cutoff in 1925. The nearly-straight tangent of the Moultrie Cutoff was built to cut the distance of the main line, avoiding the swing inland to East Palatka. It ran from just north of Bunnell to Moultrie Junction until the elimination of the Palatka Branch, which was abandoned in 1988 and rail was removed to a point just west of I-95. Rail service resumed up to this point about 10 years later with the addition of new industries trackside. Passenger service, however, ended on FEC July 31, 1968...approximately two years before my first birthday! Like I said, RARE mileage. The previous AAPRCO FEC special ran the entire length of the railway in October 1999. The private passenger cars on this train include: 800073/Dover Harbor, 800049/Cannonball, 800464/Wisconsin, 800362/City of Spokane, 800591/Burrard, 800738/Greenwich Estate, 800709/Greenwich Harbor, 800636/Scottish Thistle, 800355/Pacific Sands, 800724/Promontory Point, 800713/Federal, 800379/Diablo Canyon, 800504/Vista Canyon, 800043/Chapel Hill, 800736/Birch Grove, 800482/Oliver H Perry, 800710/Northern Dreams, 800275/Sierra Hotel & the world-famous 800111/Georgia 300.

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FBU32804

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FEC, Florida East Coast Railway, AAPRCO,

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