FEC is sidelining many of its own motors in addition to sending others out to other RailAmerica lines, so why keep the high price-tag items if they aren't yet paid for? UPDATE 5/9/09: both of these motors were heavily damaged in a massive derailment 20-odd miles to the south, it is likely 701 will be retired.

It was retired on September 28, 2001, was sold as FEC 707 in 2007. It was transferred as Alabama & Gulf Coast RR 707 in 2012. 708 was built in July 1979, #786218-14, FN 786218-14, as UP 8078, Class SD40-2.

FEC 701. Still wearing the colors of its heritage as a former UP engine, FEC 701 leads two other former UP units with train #208, a unit rock train, through the streets of downtown West Palm Beach, FL. Back to the FEC Page

Here's a shot of FEC 701 in better days leading a Southbound across Stuart Bridge on 9-9-05. From what I hear it was cut up on site where it derailed a couple of weeks ago. It was second unit with new 104 when they hit a sunkink at speed and took a wild ride into the woods. The 104 i

SB FEC w/ a trio of SD40-2's rolls thru Stuart, FL. The lead unit is #701, which derailed and was scrapped in 2009. We chase the train south for a short peri...

FEC 701 : Date: 1/31/2006: Location: Titusville, FL Map : Views: 1034: Collection Of: Craig Cook: Locomotives: FEC 701(SD40-2) FEC 705(SD40-2) LTEX 9201(SD45T-2) Author: Craig Cook: Picture Categories: This picture is part of album: Florida Pictures-FEC

This was a group of fifteen built by the American Locomotive Company in 1925. These locomotives were given road numbers 701 through 715 and they had 63" diameter drivers, 27" x 30" cylinders, a 190 psi boiler pressure, they exerted 59,800 pounds of tractive effort and each weighed 325,000 pounds.

2025年2月4日 · Train 125 glides across St Sebastian River in Roseland. All of these units fell from the UP Family Tree. "Class" SD40-2 701 leads 707 (notice lettering variation) and ex-SP SD45 7426. Photo Date: 12/4/2005 Upload Date: 12/11/2005 3:26:23 PM : Location: Roseland, FL : Author: Kevin Andrusia: Categories: Locomotives: FEC 701(SD40-2) Views: 1360 ...

FEC 701, 702, and 706, with train #290, pull a loaded rock train north toward Ft Pierce. Back to the FEC Page.

FEC 701. After the southbound 105 cleared the Stuart bridge and siding, FEC's train 290 turns up the lights and heads into the setting sun, and will soon arrive in Ft Pierce. Back to the FEC Page