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fire5506 wrote:That would be Fort Pierce on the K-branch. The closest exit on the turnpike would be exit 152 Route 70/Virginia Ave. The turnpike crosses Glades Cutoff road and the FEC there.
fire5506 wrote:That would be Fort Pierce on the K-branch. The closest exit on the turnpike would be exit 152 Route 70/Virginia Ave. The turnpike crosses Glades Cutoff road and the FEC there.
KV1guy wrote:fire5506 wrote:That would be Fort Pierce on the K-branch. The closest exit on the turnpike would be exit 152 Route 70/Virginia Ave. The turnpike crosses Glades Cutoff road and the FEC there.
You are incorrect. The "K" branch is the old non existant Kissimmee Valley branch which ran SW out of New Smyrna Beach, crossed the old Enterprise branch at Maytown...and then down to Kenansville, where the line split...with the east line going down to Ochechobee and the K West branch going from Kenansville to Bassinger.
The "Lake Harbour" branch is the ex-FEC line running SW out of Ft Pierce to Lake Harbor. It now belongs to the South Central Florida Express last I knew...or maybe trackage rights.
fire5506 wrote:KV1guy wrote:fire5506 wrote:That would be Fort Pierce on the K-branch. The closest exit on the turnpike would be exit 152 Route 70/Virginia Ave. The turnpike crosses Glades Cutoff road and the FEC there.
You are incorrect. The "K" branch is the old non existant Kissimmee Valley branch which ran SW out of New Smyrna Beach, crossed the old Enterprise branch at Maytown...and then down to Kenansville, where the line split...with the east line going down to Ochechobee and the K West branch going from Kenansville to Bassinger.
The "Lake Harbour" branch is the ex-FEC line running SW out of Ft Pierce to Lake Harbor. It now belongs to the South Central Florida Express last I knew...or maybe trackage rights.
Actually KV1guy I am correct. You have just shown how much you don't know of the present day FEC.
The present day K-branch runs from Ft Pierce to Lake Harbor and it is STILL OWNED by the FEC. From the K 15.5 on it is LEASED by the SCFE, but from the K 0.0 to K 15.5 it is still operated by the FEC.
The Cemex plant in question is at the K 5.79.
KV1guy I have worked for the FEC for 27 years and the last 5 in Ft Pierce, I do know what I am talking about.
lakeshoredave wrote:i can't wait to see amtrak on the fec mainline. it sure would spice it up. where would the stations be located at?
Gilbert B Norman wrote:When there are only 'two a day' in a passenger train market, to divert any away from the largest tourist draw in the State, Orlando, makes little sense. Another factor to consider is that the Silver Meteor is the only Long Distance train that Amtrak could discontinue without 180 Day Notice under Federal law (ARRA '97), however, if the Meteor were to be rerouted over the FEC Jax-W Palm Beach (physical FEC-SAL interchange there), then Notice would need be served. Regarding additional service; not likely unless there is Local funding.
Gilbert B Norman wrote:Gilbert B Norman wrote:When there are only 'two a day' in a passenger train market, to divert any away from the largest tourist draw in the State, Orlando, makes little sense. Another factor to consider is that the Silver Meteor is the only Long Distance train that Amtrak could discontinue without 180 Day Notice under Federal law (ARRA '97), however, if the Meteor were to be rerouted over the FEC Jax-W Palm Beach (physical FEC-SAL interchange there), then Notice would need be served. Regarding additional service; not likely unless there is Local funding.
Mr. Weaver, I think we both acknowledge that a visit to the Mouse House is not very high on either of our "to do" lists, but it is as good as a rite of passage in many a family - and some of them just might make that pilgrimage by rail.
Now I'm quite prepared to acknowledge that Amtrak's "star" has not shone as brightly over Washington as it does today in "many a moon' and no one at this time is talking about what route to cut. But before they leave town, be it '13 or '17, the Obama administration WILL be talking about fiscal responsibility and will be looking for programs to either curtail or outright kill. If the dictum is to come from high, Hill or 1600 matters not, to cut something NOW, it is handy to have one LD route that could be gone tomorrow - and I hold, and yet to have such refuted over at the Amtrak Forum, that the Meteor could be gone at Amtrak's prerogative without any Notice (I hold that if anyone really pressed the matter, Amtrak would be required to reinstate Sunset East as Notice was required and was not served).
A reroute of the Meteor over the FEC would upset that prerogative.
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