SEABOARD COAST LINE, SCL, FLORIDA PASSENGER TRAINS 1971

[DDGTINCAN]

The seaboard coastline and atlantic coastline were around alot when I was a kid in south florida. I wish I had filmed them back then. You could throw a rock from my back yard to the tracks.

[daveedwards1051]

Yes, this was the very beginning of Amtrak. They bought equipment from the various railroads that still offered passenger service back then and put them into service before being repainted. A real treat for the railfan seeing Southern Pacific cars in Florida or maybe seeing Seaboard Coast line cars in California.

[Nacho66]

Why was there a BN sleeper and UP cars on this train? Was the last part during Amtrak?

[urbansculptures]

I remember riding the SCL from Grand Central Station to Florida as a kid in the late 60's, it took 2 days, it was fun, I loved the diner car, something about eating at a moving swaying table hehe. We always had a compartment and you had to get the porter to drop the upper bed down for you.

[theredarrow78]

This is a wonderful film. Thank you for sharing.

[lawbench191]

Great Stuff! Thanks for Sharing.

[ACLTony]

Dave, I found some good info for you. I'm sending to your PM mail box, please check it! :-)

[daveedwards1051]

Thanks so much for the kind words. I wish I would have stared photographing trains earlier than this.

[ACLTony]

@daveedwards1051 Dave, a suggestion to seriously consider. You can take this film and the "Amtrak Florida the early years 1972" and have it professionally cleaned up and edited, dub in the appropriate train sounds, and offer if for sale. A few years ago a railfan did something similar with his 8mm SCL films and was a success.

[ACLTony]

This is outstanding! So difficult and rare to find "golden" history like this! Thanks so much for posting this. For those of us that are SCL, ACL, and SAL fans this is like getting treated to a gourmet meal. :-)

[quazephoto]

@ACLTony ACL Tony summed it up perfectly! Having spent many hours at the north end of the WPB station in the late 60's, this was certianly a treat! Just beyond the signal there was a diamond where a FEC spur crossed the Seaboard. Accelerating passenger trains made a really cool sound as they passed over this diamond. I really enjoyed the shot of opening the swing bridge. I had no idea it was a "hand crank" job - really interesting.