A 1967 Trip From North Miami to Fort Lauderdale on the Florida East Coast Railway

Watch a vintage 1½ minute 8mm film of a 1967 trip from North Miami to Fort Lauderdale on the local passenger train #2. This was the mini-streamliner that FEC was required to operate daily except Sunday between North Miami and Jacksonville from 1965 to 1968. The regular trains to the Northeast and Midwest like the "East Coast Champion", "Florida Special" and "City of Miami" had all been rerouted off the FEC because of the notorious strike that lasted from 1963 to 1977.

The consist on this date was pulled by E9A #1033, delivered to the FEC in 1955, and included coach "Bunnell" and tavern observation "Saint Lucie Sound", both delivered in 1946. North Miami station opened in 1955 at about 13208 Arch Creek Road and Fort Lauderdale followed in 1956 at 1850 Park Lane. The train and the classic stations are but pleasant memories.

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