Historic Milepost from FEC Overseas Railway

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7 ай бұрын

Historic Milepost from FEC Overseas Railway
We all know about the FEC Overseas Railway that went into the Florida Keys and Key West whose first passenger train arrived in 1912 and operations went on until 1935 when the Labor Day Hurricane destroyed the tracks and washed away most of all the infrastructure. At that point, the former ROW was turned into US 1 and FL City became the Southern Terminus for the FEC line just South of Homestead and at the tip of mainland FL and the continental United States of America. It went from passenger service to freight service hauling produce mostly. Toward the end of the line there was a spur that branched off the main around Naranja that serviced Homestead Air Force Base located at SW 288th Street in Homestead, FL. Military trains were a common site here during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 when Fidel Castro was hiding missiles from the USSR in Cuba and the world was on the brink of nuclear war! Despite all this history FEC decided to sell part of the Miami Extension to the city for an elevated rail system aka Metrorail in 1984 and the rest of the line in 1988 to make a busway which in my opinion displayed lack of vision because today it would've been prime real estate for Brightline trains. The railroad crossing at SW 137th Ave had two small WRRS cantilevers with signals but I don't remember crossing gates but it could've had them. The final traces of the Air Force base spur were removed around 2017 and now it is but a distant memory. FEC even had a connection with the CSX Homestead Subdivision formerly Seaboard Air line tracks built in 1926. Join me in this video for some South Florida history and railroad archaeology as we take a trip back in time...
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@mikeskinner45 7 ай бұрын

In the late 60s/early 70s, the band I was in played at that place many times. Two of the guys(Tony and Gary Ross)lived in Key Largo, the rest of us-including their cousin Steve-drove down from Hialeah. This was all before the Turnpike extension was built and US1 was all two-lane.

@dragondancer1814 7 ай бұрын

A piece of railroad history, hiding in plain sight at a cantina right by the water. It doesn’t get better than that, Roly!

@send2gl 7 ай бұрын

That is brilliant that someone took the trouble to acquire that and locate it for others to appreciate.

@jasonbabila6006 7 ай бұрын

Surprisingly it's still intact. 👍🏽

@glf001 7 ай бұрын

Nice discovery! I assume this is not where it was originally located? If I am wrong so much the better! Cool Find and thanks for sharing!

@armandoperez7967 7 ай бұрын

Great video! I love how you discover so many things that we just let slip by because we don’t notice. Your videos have passion!

@georgettedebuhr2660 7 ай бұрын

Awesome video

@KevinPlaysGuitar 7 ай бұрын

Great find! Nice little spot.

@ChainsawNW1218 7 ай бұрын

Like the mile marker,nice video!🛤🚂

@kathleenschwartz5303 7 ай бұрын

Great Video, Keep em coming. I wait all week for these kind of stuff.

@dp2475 7 ай бұрын

Good history lesson. Did the actual railroad go through that area you were at?

@kylesanders8276 7 ай бұрын

At first I thought that was it's original location, but then the plaque said _Acquired by.._ and thought it was probably moved there.

@ernestpassaro9663 7 ай бұрын

Great job

@hendrikhendrix4987 7 ай бұрын

ok man! this is a very nice and more than nice important historic landmark. it's the identity of the excists of the former railroad overthere

@dougow3061 7 ай бұрын

very cool

@LunarEquity93 7 ай бұрын

Awesome video & discovery can I give you a special shout-out in a video

@William_George825 2 ай бұрын

Hello from JAX

@taslimchoudhary1253 7 ай бұрын

Very nice Video! 🌷🚂🇮🇳🚂🌷

@mealwan2405 7 ай бұрын

i dont know if you made a video about it, but it would be cool as hell if you looked into the Marco Island railroad/station that existed from 1927-1942. Its on an old survey map from 37.

@Adamdaj 7 ай бұрын

That video make the Cape May NJ Ex READING / PRR Seashore Line look like Junk Yard. Enjoy your Thanksgiving and Christmas with your Kin folk as they in some parts of the South. Catch ya on the Fip Side

@thomasmackowiak 7 ай бұрын

Nice find! Thank you for sharing this video. Is this the correct location for this milepost or did the Robinsons find it somewhere else an place it at this location?

@robertdwyer5486 7 ай бұрын

I think it was moved to present location. Railway was basically where road is now.

@thomasmackowiak 7 ай бұрын

@@robertdwyer5486 I am thinking the same thing. Thanks for your comment.