Flash Floods shut down the FEC for about 12 hours which resulted in a fleet of extra trains, like this 240 with a rare EMD leader.

FEC Biz train running as 240 head back north after ferrying executives to and from SoFlo with a stop at Port Everglades. The train is still decked out from the Santa run a few days earlier.

The pair of GP40-2s take their train of mainly empties up the grade near Camp Murphy North. 426s conductor's side ditch light went out somewhere between Fort Lauderdale and Lake Worth.

FEC GP40-2 426 takes FEC 240 through Lake Worth, FL on a July afternoon with FEC 414 trailing second. The extra train consisted of empty autoracks, roughly 5 cars of manifest and empty CSX coal ho... (more)

FEC 821 and 425 lead extra train 240 through downtown Stuart after meeting hotshot 101 at Port Sewall.

Extra train 240 races through Camp Murphy with CSX intermodal, empty autoracks and empty ethanol tanks. FEC ES44C4 821 and Susan G. Comen breast cancer awareness GP40-2 425 lead the train northwar... (more)

Old and the New The oldest and newest liveries to be applied to FEC motors was represented on an extra today.

Old and the New The oldest and newest liveries to be applied to FEC motors was represented on an extra today.

FEC ran an extra ahead Tropical Storm Isaias trying to get things moved before the storm.

FEC 240 ran today... even though it is sunny, the Saharan Dust Layer was easily seen in the skies

FEC ran a 240 to help catch from the holidays as the FEC took New Years off and the rest of railroad land kept running. This made for a good shot in proper light in the pm. 4th train of the day.

Florida East Coast mixed train 240 heads north through Bunnell, FL with GECX 3000 LNG demo unit trailing.

FEC 240 with some Conrail hoppers in St. Augustine

One of the daily extras due to the curfews down south making things "almost like the old days". Prior to 2009 202 would show up near this time. These days, it's pretty rare.

An image that could have been 5-10 years ago recreates it's self with FEC 240 running with one of the ex UP SD40-2's.