THE ROAD THAT DARED AND DID!

The operating practices and physical plant improvements of the Florida East Coast Railway are described. At the end of a 13-year strike of operating employees, FEC was a completely changed railroad with two-man crews operating caboose-less scheduled freight trains, some of them for the entire 360-mile length of the Jacksonville-Miami mainline. FEC's operating ratio was 24.9 percent in 1974; its safety record the second best in the industry and the largely single-tracked railroad is run with Centralized Traffic Control and protected with modern safety devices.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Cahners Publishing Company, Incorporated

  Watson Publications, 5 South Wabash Avenue
  Chicago, IL  United States  60603
• Authors:
  • SHAFFER, F E
• Publication Date: 1976-9

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 104-107
• Serial:
  • Modern Railroads/Rail Transit
  • Volume: 31
  • Issue Number: 9
  • Publisher: Cahners Publishing Company, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0736-2064

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cabooses; Centralized traffic control; Concrete; Concrete ties; Equipment; Labor unions; Railroad ties; Strikes; Work rules
• Identifier Terms: Florida East Coast Railway
• Old TRIS Terms: Equipment utilization; Operating strategies
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00147584
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 16 1977 12:00AM