Mornings at Iris

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Mornings at Iris
Mornings at Iris

Florida East Coast Railway's Miami downtown job lifts an empty standard height 50' boxcar at Omni Warehouse at the Iris interlocking as train 335 with rock loads from City Point clanks across the CSX diamond with a pair of SD40-2s for power. The downtown job and City Point rock job are regulars at Iris every weekday morning right around dawn as they interrupt the steady Tri-Rail traffic and occasional CSX downtown job returning from working the United States' southern most carload customers at the classic downtown spur and East Rail industries near downtown Miami.
FEC 434 had just pulled its short train east across the diamond to set out cars for the industries there, and quickly made the run back across to pull the empty boxcar at Omni, a switch typically done about twice a week on average. Standard height boxcars are getting increasingly scarce with their forced retirement looming in the next handful of years (50-year federal service limit), but they continue to occasionally show up here among what are otherwise exclusively T-boxes. For a bit more details, read this description: flickr.com/photos/henry_dell/53758022888/in/dateposted/
The 335 actually prevented me from capturing the move back out of the spur and certainly complicated an already very difficult shooting circumstance with it still being very dark. Thankfully the 335 crew kept the headlight dim until this very moment and one frame turned out sharp despite the low shutter. And so while I had to pass up the shot of them pulling out with the boxcar, I'm quite happy to have been able to document this moment as it aligned to capture the early morning scene here at Iris.
I find the beat up old warehouse still getting boxcars right off the mainline also has a classic feel to it; old warehouses like this can be seen everywhere along any mainline with the former loading doors giving the clue that they all once had an active rail spur to serve them. Rarely is there still a spur remnant left to remind of former times, and hardly ever does one still get rail shipments, with boxcars being the least likely. Hialeah, FL

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Taken on: April 29, 2024
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