{"id":45,"date":"2007-03-08T16:25:05","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T20:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2007-03-08T16:25:05","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T20:25:05","slug":"45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/45\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Englander in South Florida – Feb 18-23, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Just wanted to share a few select shots from my adventures around the Boca Raton\/Deerfield Beach, Florida area. Took the family down there to visit my parents who live in Deerfield Beach, FL, smack between both the FEC and CSX\/TriRail tracks (we also did visit that big mouse in Orlando for a couple days at the beginning of the trip). So I tried to get out as much as I could – not much FEC action, because as my shit luck had it, FEC was doing track work up and down the entire line the week I was there – ranging from rail grinding in the north to undercutting\/ballast cleaning in the south (more on this in a bit), so quite a few trains were annulled (mostly the unit rock trains and corresponding empties – manifest, juice, stacks\/pigs & autos all still ran), and most everything ran at night. But I did catch a bunch of TriRail and even one daylight CSX local. OK, enough blabbing, here’s the goods.
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\nFor more pix beyond what I’ve put in this email, click the link below to get to the
\noverall Photo Journal for the month of February – each sub gallery is organized by date.
\nhttp:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/gallery\/index.php?cat=32<\/a><\/p>\n

Now on to the goods…<\/p>\n

TriRail, surprisingly, provided a variety of equipment to photograph. Not only the usual F40s and double deckers, but I also caught a couple GP49H-3s, and even a set of DOT DMU demonstrators. Here’s a few images below.<\/p>\n

F40 Meet at Deerfield Beach:<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:2527]\n

Friendly wave from the southbound engineer:<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:2524]\n

GP49H-3 at Boca Raton:<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:2520]\n

Southbound with the pair of DMU demos at Delray Beach:<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:2517]\n

Another GP49H-3 at Delray Beach:<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:2512]\n

Now to the freight stuff. Caught one CSX local in daylight, the Pompano Switcher O-717, working a customer just south of the Deerfield beach station.<\/p>\n

Pulling out of the customer’s siding, with an apropos TriRail sign:<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:2546]\n

And another visitor came floating by – the Goodyear Blimp. It’s home hangar is just to the south in Pompano Beach:<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:2549]\n

Finally, some FEC action. Due to the trackwork on the system, I was only able to catch one train in daylight – train 206, which is a northbound pig\/stack train that hits the Deerfield\/Boca area around 8am. The train typically runs around a mile and a half long, and has 3-4 GPs on the point. Here they are racing through the straightaway in Boca Raton at a good 50-55 MPH:<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:2542]\n

And a bit further south, crossing over the Boca Raton\/Deerfield Beach canal:<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:2533]\n

OK, now for the trackwork. On Monday the 19th, my wife & I took off early, leaving the kids with my parents. Well, we did get a bonus – FEC was operating a leased CP undercutter in Boca Raton, heading south cleaning the ballast. Where we came across them (same spot I got FEC 206 in Boca above), there were great views of the RoW. Here’s athe shots of the machine in action\u00a0– it’s quite an interesting beast:<\/p>\n[cpg_albumfullsize:119]\n

The buisness end of the machine:<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:2510]\n

No issues with photographing the crews working, and there was an FEC foreman there watching over the operation. I just kept my distnace, and out of their way. I spent a good hour there photographing them work. Glad my wife had a crossword puzzle to do in the car. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

And that was it! Glad I could get some railfanning in while I was down there. Boy was it nice being out trackside in shorts…heh…<\/p>\n

Thanks for looking & enjoy!
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just wanted to share a few select shots from my adventures around the Boca Raton\/Deerfield Beach, Florida area. Took the family down there to visit my parents who live in Deerfield Beach, FL, smack between both the FEC and CSX\/TriRail tracks (we also did visit that big mouse in Orlando for a couple days at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32,33,15,34,35,36,37,38,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-45","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rail_photography","7":"tag-ballast-cleaning","8":"tag-boca-raton","9":"tag-csx","10":"tag-deerfield-beach","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-east-coast-railway","13":"tag-goodyear-blimp","14":"tag-mow","15":"tag-trirail","16":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}