The Florida East Coast Railroad 's Key West Extension

This video tells the life and death of the Florida East Coast Railroad's Key West Extension in old black and white photos from Keyshistory.org The backaround music is Lugia Song from Pokemon 2000

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• Key
• West
• Extension
• Florida
• Railroad
• Lugia
• Song

[nucj007]

Great video!

[OceanRailroader]

The man who helped me get the photos from his website for it I think I saw him on Modern Marvels on the History Channel.

[McMike321]

it would be cool to restore railroad service to the keys.

[McMike321]

exactlly my point restoe all the things Henry Flager worked to create, Im pretty sure if he were alive today he would gladlly restore the railroad.

[92kid1]

It'd be cool to restore the bridges and use them for high speed rail.

[ferlenarab]

If Mr. Flagler had been alive, the rr would have been rebuilt, it was his pet project. It never was a financial sucess as the trade between the Key West and Havana never really took off as he planned, so the hurricane was a good reason not to rebuild. Previous hurricanes had did damage before, this one was an exceptionally bad one.

[OceanRailroader]

@boazrg When they built the big dig they had a section cave in on top of a car and kill someone. The sections where eposyed in to the tunnel ceiling and the weight of the sections pulled the eposxy and bolts out and killed someone it cost over 56 million to fix this fatal flaw. The Holland and Linicon Tunnels where built in the 1920's and 1930's and they where state of the art at the time but never ever had a tunnel section cave in on a driver and kill them and they are over 80 years old

[boazrg]

@Elodea A lot of the old construction methods were better than the "hurry up" stuff they do now! When they were remodeling a Boston Subway station at Haymarket some years ago, it took forever to revome the old concrete from 1906, because it was so hard! That's what happens when engineers make decisions instead of acountants!

[Jamersonde]

RIP Key West Extension. I wish they hadn't decided to replace it with concrete!

[Gulftango11]

It was freakn hot I almost passed out a few times during constuction

[slippy2009]

history

[Elodea]

@zigzag74 You are incorrect about Flagler. Flagler was highly criticized at the time of construction because he insisted upon using German portland cement mixed with fresh water brought down the railroad in cypress tanks. The resulting mixture is still so strong, that the Corp of Engineers in effect, gave up when they tried to remove the seven mile bridge viaduct after the new road open. Bahia Honda problem was the substandard materials used to pave over the bridge after the railroad "died."

[Steam501]

@Elodea The same government that wants to rescue us with health care may want to have obama pose with it for a photo postcard for healthcare. LOL !!

[megatwingo]

5*****!