A 1967 Trip From Miami to Winter Haven Aboard the Silver Meteor on the Seaboard Air Line Railroad

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13 жыл бұрын

This is a vintage 3½ minute 8mm color film of a 1967 round trip aboard the Miami section of the streamliner Silver Meteor. It also includes a cameo appearance by the Sunland local. This was just before Seaboard merged with Atlantic Coast Line to become the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, and still four years before Amtrak. The Winter Haven station remains in service, but the old 1927 stub-end Seaboard Miami passenger terminal was demolished after Amtrak moved out in 1978, except for the original entrance portico standing at 2206 NW 7th Avenue.
Highlights:
[0:08] depart Miami S.A.L. station
[0:35] depart West Palm Beach station
[2:07] northbound Silver Meteor departs Winter Haven
[2:33] trackside at Winter Haven station
[2:47] southbound Sunland arrives
[2:55] southbound Silver Meteor arrives
[3:13] arrive Miami S.A.L. station.
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@23Sunrise Жыл бұрын

Very nice. I am glad someone took the movie.

@cforssi 13 жыл бұрын

I used to live and railfan in Sarasota at this time. We had the #2028 doodlebug and various rare engines to power the Silver Meteor from Tampa-Venice. I was a huge fan back then and this brings back a lot of memories. Thank you!

@gregh9975 7 жыл бұрын

Fantastic 8mm "movie"........with just the right background music too. Yes, the "Sunland" was seeing its last days then....glad it made an appearance . Excellent !

@drum3433 13 жыл бұрын

@binzoclone The best part of films like yours is the blend of the railroad and the lives it passes through. I really enjoy watching this film from time to time. Cheers to your Mom!

@dpohunter 13 жыл бұрын

That car sitting on track 3 in Miami looks like an Osgood-Bradley "American Flyer" car, probably for the SUNLAND. Man, I wish my dad had brought along the family movie camera the many times we were at Miami Seaboard Station! Thanks for posting this great video.

@Adeline9418 2 жыл бұрын

This train used to zip through Denmark SC every evening. I know because I'd get my mom to take me to watch it. I called it the Silvia Meteor!!!!

@Getcruising 12 жыл бұрын

I also rode my bike a few times in the late 60's all the way from North Miami to the old Miami Seaboard station just to watch the ACL and SAL passenger trains. I was also lucky my parents and grandparents drove me a few times so I eventually could claim seeing or riding all the named trains, even went aboard a few after the passengers detrained and before the yard switcher pulled them out of the station backwards to Hialeah. Wish I had video of all of it!

@PRR5406 13 жыл бұрын

I rode the "Silver Star" from NY (Penn Station) to Boca Raton, in 1965. I'd give my left nut to do it again, same train, same everything. Great film, and thanks for posting it..

@Getcruising 13 жыл бұрын

Mom is in her 80s now and your comment made her day!

@josehernandez2021 7 жыл бұрын

wooow!,...Super Nice ok..

@AlexTraxxas 9 жыл бұрын

I love the song

@SuperStarRendon 13 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing. Great Video!

@markwarren7116 5 жыл бұрын

At 1:05 the train was running along the BeeLine Highway (route 710).

@DECE5 13 жыл бұрын

Good video and amazing the difference in today's trains.

@ACLTony 13 жыл бұрын

Looking at this clip again, on the sections before the train slows down and the truck passes it, this train was seriously chewing on some speed! Definitely over 80mph.

@G3RIVER 12 жыл бұрын

Great video!! My Grandfather worked for SCL in this time period. I got to ride in the engine one time at the age of 7 years old. I hadn't been on a train since then, until last year. I took a trip on Amtrack From Savannah to Fort Lauderdale, (It was the Silver Meteor). Thanks for sharing this.

@notafanofthegovernment9982 2 жыл бұрын

Was he a coast line man or airline man? (Coast line for ACL/ airline for SAL employees)

@G3RIVER 2 жыл бұрын

@@notafanofthegovernment9982 He worked for the Coast Line.

@notafanofthegovernment9982 Жыл бұрын

Nice, I had family working with the PRR when this was shot

@Getcruising 12 жыл бұрын

I rode the City of Miami only once from Miami to Hollywood in the late 1960's during it's Seaboard days, but no video exists. Admitedly a very short 30 minute trip, but it was my first ride in a dome car!

@Getcruising 13 жыл бұрын

According to the timetable, the 61 miles from West Palm Beach to Okeechobee was covered in 50 minutes, so average speed was 73.2 mph. I'm pretty sure at times it must have been doing 90 - 100 mph.

@90STETURBO 6 жыл бұрын

nice seeing the SAL right before the ACL-SAL merger later that year.

@RailTime1786 9 жыл бұрын

Wow times have changed.

@tommytruth7595 6 жыл бұрын

For the worse.

@Getcruising 11 жыл бұрын

Up until the FEC strike in 1963, ACL trains entered Miami on the FEC, so they used the FEC station in downtown Miami. After that they were rerouted onto SAL so they used the Seaboard station in this video.

@BermondseySteve Жыл бұрын

The old Seaboard "Miami" stn. was located at the NW corner of NW 22 St. & NW 7 Ave. in Miami - only the front of the bldg remains. It's ~ 7 mi. south of the current Amrtak stn. in Hialeah, though they call the Hialeah stn. "Miami".

@mike305mike 13 жыл бұрын

cool

@ronniefarnsworth6465 5 жыл бұрын

Spring Training for the "Impossible Dream" 1967' Red Sox trip ? : D

@Getcruising 13 жыл бұрын

Yes, the short train on the right definitely was the Sunland.

@Getcruising 13 жыл бұрын

The NB Silver Meteor also was carrying a Sun Lounge buffet sleeper, but unfortunately the camera wasn't running when it went by. Actually, I never saw the Silver Meteor without it's Sun Lounge.

@Getcruising 13 жыл бұрын

Looks like the Silver Meteor had a west coast section from 1939 until 1968 that split from the Miami section at Wildwood, then split again at Tampa, continuing to St. Petersburg and Venice.

@markhb1 13 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see what this same route looks like now on the current Silver Meteor; I'm sure there aren't nearly as many orange groves, at least not between Miami and West Palm!

@soulfultenor 12 жыл бұрын

This Video is 46 years old, 10 years before me

@AlexTraxxas 8 жыл бұрын

Amtrak still has a Miami Station, it's at the csx and tri rail Yard.

@BermondseySteve Жыл бұрын

@Getcruising 10 жыл бұрын

That's "Orange Blossom Special" .. it's about Seaboard's passenger train of the same name.

@BBT609 13 жыл бұрын

did these have sound to em?

@Getcruising 13 жыл бұрын

No, it was the 1960's and sound was rare on home movie cameras.

@ACLTony 13 жыл бұрын

@cforssi - a tragic shame that the doodlebug was not preserved and was scrapped. Reportedly it had maintenance issues due to wear and tear. Still, I wonder why SCL couldn't have donated it to a museum and accept a tax break for it.

@CastleMr40 11 жыл бұрын

In Miami, did SAL and ACL use the same passenger station or were they separate?

@stuartlee6622 11 ай бұрын

They were separate! The ACL station was right downtown Miami, much closer to Miami Beach. The Seaboard station was way out west somewhere near Hialeah. People going to the beach preferred the Champion!

@stuartlee6622 11 ай бұрын

The Champion was a nicer train than the Silver Meteor.

@Morbid_Railfan 5 жыл бұрын

1:10 100 mph?

@Getcruising 5 жыл бұрын

That's alongside state road 710 between West Palm Beach to Okeechobee, so it's likely about 100 mph.

@Morbid_Railfan 5 жыл бұрын

At 1:10 at looks well way over 100 mph

@cherylstallworth4627 4 жыл бұрын

The engineer was probably putting the E7’s 120 MPH gearing to the test!

@kelleyagee5760 7 жыл бұрын

orange blossom special is my favorite song

@swingrfd 10 жыл бұрын

I understand that but there are much better versions available. And there is always the mute.

@Getcruising 6 жыл бұрын

The Johnny Cash version at gettraveling.com/seaboard-air-line-railroad-1967-trip-video

@seaboardairlineproductions7185 6 жыл бұрын

Name of music?

@Getcruising 6 жыл бұрын

It's "Orange Blossom Special" .. about Seaboard's passenger train of the same name.

@seaboardairlineproductions7185 6 жыл бұрын

Cool! thanks for letting me know!

@chaosdemonwolf1 6 жыл бұрын

Orange blossom special

@ronniefarnsworth6465 5 жыл бұрын

That would be "God Awful Hillbilly Music " !!! Not all us Southerner's like this Crap !! And I was born in the 1950s !! : D

@AlexTraxxas 5 жыл бұрын

@@ronniefarnsworth6465 This is quality music compared to whatever shit you like.

@DouglasP201 13 жыл бұрын

@drum3433 Hot mom is old now :P

@swingrfd 11 жыл бұрын

Nice footage but would prefer that you ditch the hillbilly music.

@AlexTraxxas 5 жыл бұрын

No this music is good.

@SCLModeler 4 жыл бұрын

Get rid of that ridiculous music!!

@AlexTraxxas Жыл бұрын

It's part of the theme...