Multiple teams work at once to quickly install a new turnout to service the Brightline Station in West Palm Beach. Sunday mornings are the maintenance window when these cut-ins are normally done, ...
As the second mainline is reinstalled for All Aboard Florida service, there is an ongoing process that is repeated everywhere between Miami and West Palm. First the crossings are upgraded and rebu...
August 26 2016 finds this work train dropping ballast on brand new rails as the FEC mainline gets the second mainline reinstalled. This train shoved south from the West Palm Yard. As they moved s...
We find an All Aboard Florida/Brightline work train dropping his last hopper of ballast, and as he does we can see the head end of the train running on unballasted track. It looks a lot like a rol...
One of the early rail trains for the All Aboard Florida double-tracking on the FEC Railway. Here we see the train offloading in the Hypoluxo passing track south of West Palm Beach (approx mp310). ...
A small sample of the crossing replacement work going on between West Palm and Miami in preparation for restoration of double tracking for All Aboard Florida. This crossing has been single track si...
As construction proceeds for All Aboard Florida, this is recapping the progress made in about a 6 hour time frame... The pace of the construction was amazing to watch, with multiple crews performi...
The demolition process continues at the site of the new All Aboard Florida station in West Palm. The work is slow and deliberate, as is normal for demolition these days. Different materials are s...
The work train hauling continuous welded rail for All Aboard Florida's re-double tracking of the FEC Mainline is shoved back into the siding at West Palm just in time for FEC 202 to come through. ...
May 13th 2015 the Hibiscus St crossing in Downtown West Palm Beach was reopened, having been the FIRST crossing upgraded to have the second track in place in preparation for the All Aboard Florida ...
Returning from testing in Camp Murphy we find Brightpink cruising across the Northlake Boulevard grade crossing. The train is only doing about 40 miles per hour here so the crossing closure is sli...
Returning from more test runs in Camp Murphy, Brightblue must wait for a maintenance team to finish work on the track that leads in to the Workshop B. They've just gotten clearance to proceed at m...
#GoBrightline train #BrightBlue crosses County Line Rd in Tequesta Florida as it enters CP Camp Murphy S for another day of signal testing. Today Brightblue is powered by locos 102 and 106.
Brightblue is seen coming south out of Camp Murphy crossing County Line Road while doing braking tests. They stop south of the crossing, and then reverse north quickly accelerating from a standing...
Train 101 has just left Gifford and rolls through Bougard after meeting and swapping crews with Sunday's 202. Here we see them gaining speed and running right alongside US Highway 1 in Vero Beach ...
A busy day around the West Palm Yard. We start with work train 414 gondolas being unloaded by an excavator crawling on top of the cars, then we find local 945 returning into the yard to clear for ...