FL Northern RR - Northbound train between Dunnellon and Williston, FL

[ocalamike]

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[SFLRailFan]

Great video. This is where the collision with the SUV happened April 25, 2010. Love Florida's shortline action --- great capture. I like it. ;-)

[ocalamike]

@SFLRailFan I remember reading about that accident in the Ocala Star-Banner. I live about 10 miles east of that crossing in the Blitchton area off FL326. How did the occupants of that vehicle ever make out? Any law suit ever started? I note that the crossing is unprotected with gates, and the train can kind of "sneak up" on you out of the woods. Doesn't the railroad have to keep the area around the crossing open for visibility purposes?

[ocalamike]

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[burntisland1]

So........FNRR doesn't pull the coal drags? Figures that CSX would hang on to that money maker.

[CSX31]

This is a former ACL line.

[pdfsmail1]

Yes, this was ACL some time ago, the line went all the way through dunnellon, inverness to brooksville and south.. you can follow the withlacoochee bike trail also. FWCRR was abandonded - it was not making ends meet. The track does terminate in High springs, but the connection is in Newberry. If the train you saw was a long coal train then it was pulled by CSX lcomotives, anything else is pulled by FNOR.

i dont have answers for everything, but lately i think railroads abandon tracks too soon

[CSX31]

@pdfsmail1 They abandoned the line from Citrus Springs to Dade City in 1986-87.

[CSX31]

@pdfsmail1 Oh yes try filming CSX in Alachua.

[troy12n]

@pdfsmail1

This piece is the former ACL Gulf Coast/West Coast Subdivision which went from High Springs to Owensboro, FL. It never went to Brooksville. There was a SAL line (Tampa Northern) which went from Tampa to Brooksville to Waldo, FL which parallelled the ACL from Inverness to Williston before it veered NE towards Gainesville and Waldo. After the SCL merger in 1967, the SAL was abandoned from Inverness to Williston.

[troy12n]

@pdfsmail1

The ACL line existed as a through route until 1988 which it was abandoned between Owensboro, FL and Gulf Jct where the line to red level branched off of the main line. Also around then, the Dupont Sub North of High Springs was abandoned, the SAL between Williston and Gainesville and Gainesville and Waldo was abandoned and removed. Also the ACL between Alachua (Burnetts Lake) and Jacksonville, and a piece of the Brooker Sub was re-laid between Alachua and Brooker to facilitate access

[CSX31]

Why did they abandon the western half of that railroad in Newberry. That is the FWCR.

[CSX31]

I wonder why they do not service Bradco off CR 336.

[CSX31]

Does CSX use this line? Also is there anyother companies it might serve. While I was going to Williston I seen a Carbon plant next to the FN.

[pdfsmail1]

This line connects to CSX to the north (pass Wiliston) in Newberry, FL. The coal train through here do use the CSX locomotives... however the track is operated by Florida Northern, aka Pinsly railroad. occasionally this part of the track will serve the nuclear part of the power facility, haul nuclear flasks - transformers, etc.. also trash/junk from near crystal river quarries. I believe there is a plant in Wiliston that uses this track. This track was bought from CSX a few years ago.

[CSX31]

@pdfsmail1 Well I heard a train when I was in Williston Friday, 19. I only seen the lights from the locomotive. The train was probably a mile away. Really I wanted to know if it was CSX or FNR. I seen there is Carbon plant along 41 heading towards Williston which is also on the railroad. That railroad I seen on the maps goes to High Springs.