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 Post subject: Re: Ocala, Florida Railroading
PostPosted: Fri May 24, 2013 3:29 pm 

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Well, it's of course off-topic but there's always "Big Daddy" Don Garlit's Museum of Drag Racing in Ocala :).


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 Post subject: Re: Ocala, Florida Railroading
PostPosted: Fri May 24, 2013 5:00 pm 

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Also off topic, but there is quite a few horse shows in Ocala. The 1 million dollar Grand Prix last night was fantastic.


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 Post subject: Re: Ocala, Florida Railroading
PostPosted: Fri May 24, 2013 6:06 pm 
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I've been told there's a model RR display at the shopping center where 'six gun territory' used to be. I was at that long-ago-bulldozed western theme park about 1982 or so as a kid once, they had two Crown 3-footer 4-4-0s and a couple of static 'real' locomotives on display at each station. Such a shame it's gone now.
http://www.ocala.com/article/20101229/articles/101229740

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 Post subject: Re: Ocala, Florida Railroading
PostPosted: Sun May 26, 2013 9:10 pm 

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Some talk is stirring up that the crew bases are being examined to restore the Palmetto or possibly the Sunset Limited into Florida once again. If the Palmetto returns it would run through Ocala.

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 Post subject: Re: Ocala, Florida Railroading
PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2013 2:45 pm 

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A short distance to the north is where the Orange Lake Fruit Company ran what may have been the longest 18" gauge industrial railroad in the U.S. I am attaching a few images and the research that is connected by historian Don Hensley, Jr., of the Taplines website. If anyone can chip in with more details about this or the other operation in Richmond VA, I would very much appreciate it!
O. Anderson
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/18inch

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Attached you will find the 18 inch gauge locomotive and a map showing the tramway.

The map: You can find the tramway starting at the town of Orange Lake. The tramway heads west into the hills and ends up at the small village of Flemington. At Orange Lake the tram interchanged with the Florida Southern Railway, a 3 foot gauge road. Nearby at Citra was the standard gauge Florida Railway & Navigation and a little further South at Anthony was the French Phosphate Co.'s 60 cm (23-15/16") tramway.

The photo: shows Orange Lake Fruit Co's little Lima, c/n 386 built 3/26/1892 for Clifford Orange Co. at Citra, Fla.
though Citra may have been the delivery destination. I believe that Clifford and Orange Lake Fruit Co. are the same company. The engine later ended up at the Richmond Cedar Works in Richmond, VA, an inplant railroad.

The Orange Lake district of Florida was the premier citrus fruit producing from the early 1880's until the hard freezes of 1896 ended its reign. This engine was probably sold around this time to Richmond as the Citrus was completely killed off and it would take many years before production could come back. The area never had the amount of production it once had. The Freeze also caused the bankruptcy of many of the narrow gauge railroads in Florida, including the Florida Southern and the nearby Western Railway of Florida at Melrose. The Florida Southern was taken over by the Plant Sytem and standard gauged.

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 Post subject: Re: Ocala, Florida Railroading
PostPosted: Tue May 28, 2013 12:04 pm 

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In the 1980s Pennsylvania Trolley Museum (Arden TM back then) sold our 1930 Baldwin 0-6-0T (61559, 11/30, American Bridge Co. 12, later Duquesne Slag Products Co. 69) to a developer who planned to use it as a display at a shopping center. Is it still there? Any recent images?


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 Post subject: Re: Ocala, Florida Railroading
PostPosted: Tue May 28, 2013 12:24 pm 

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Location: Somewhere east of Prescott, AZ along the old Santa Fe "Prescott & Eastern"
Google can be your friend:

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/duq ... cts-co-69/


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