Friday, February 3, 2012

Delivery of locomotive to Parrish delayed

New domed passenger car at Florida Railroad Museum. (Photo James A. Jones Jr.)
The delivery of Frisco engine 3749 to Parrish is going to take a little longer than anticipated.

The locomotive, which had been at Orlando's Church Street Station for 35 years, was expected to arrive in Parrish this week.

But in an email today, Gene Hughey of the Florida Railroad Museum in Parrish reports there has been a glitch.

"Florida Department of Transportation has not issued the necessary permits to transport the steam engine from Church Street Station," he wrote. "The engine will not arrive as scheduled on Saturday, Feb. 4."


We dropped by the museum grounds at 12210 83rd St. E., Parrish, today and noticed that the passenger car with dome roof has arrived from Church Street Station. Cool looking piece of rolling stock. See the photo above.


For more on this new addition to the museum, see our previous story:

//www.bradenton.com/2012/01/20/3806411/historic-train-car-moved-to-local.html



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