Pinsly Railroad Rail Speeders SB from Ocala into Silver Springs Shores/Candler, FL Part 1 of 2

It's the South Eastern Railcar Operators 2009 Ocala Run!

I missed seeing them in my own backyard of Orlando on 3/14/09, so I went to my old backyard and caught them in Ocala on 3/15/09. I set up video Part 1 on Emerald Road, which the crossing existed with nothing more than crossbucks when I grew up a mile from there circa 1975 to 1980. I remember having never seen a train there in my young age. When I heard about the chance to see the Rail Speeders cross through the old ACL/SCL line that currently ends at a lumber yard, I jumped at the chance to make the trip up. As far as I can remember the line was already pulled up to the point of the intersection of SE Maricamp and SE 110th (Candler) back in the early 80's. It looks like scars still remain where the track was pulled within the last 30 years from that intersection to the lumber yard. Don't have any definite dates and would like to know- some abandoned railroad sites do not have it or are dead links. It was fun to chat with some of the operators and spend a couple of hours "home." Part 2 coming up.

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• ocala
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• silver
• springs
• shores
• fl
• florida
• leesburg

[floridasun1983]

Awesome video, I saw them a year or two ago in town coming north. Man that ex-ACL is in awful shape, there are places where I'm amazed Pinsley even runs anything over it. The contrast is even more striking now that CSX is putting so much into the ex-SAL S-Line.

[ElKabong75]

Thanks! I have seen some of the track close to the Ocala diamond on this line and, yes, talk about scary! Bad enough for a speeder, but I don't know how something the size of a locomotive can be supported on the twisted steel. One of my vids is shot looking down the line as a CSX passes on the S-Line- and it is WARPED!

[HLCpromow]

Great catch!! I enjoyed that don't believe I'v seen them before!! Great stuff Thanks!

[ElKabong75]

Thanks! It was fun to see in person, especially on that old line.

[cnrail16]

It's like a highway on rails!

[SolomonJonesIsBack]

Thumbs up if you invented the train. I know I did.

[peacefrogseller999]

Why didnt the signals activate?

[peacefrogseller999]

are these tracks even used?

[TheZeke1974]

That track looks sad but ive seen worse!

[CSX31]

Go to Lady Lake on 441 you will see a boxcar and caboose that town was on this line originally

[doug33020]

How often do these guys run? i saw a video last year of the speeders going thru High Springs,FL and would love to see them in person.

cool vid!

[ucvgabe]

nice! the MOWs up here look way different!

[woodencoasterfan]

Are those railroad maintenance crews on board?