Embeded it for you. makes it  easier to watch

Dear Hobbes,

Might want to flip the YT clips in order, so the "Thursday" clip is before the "Saturday" clip,

IE you get the "Before" and "After" the right way round... ;-)

..and Chris, that's a Fantastic Effort!
(even if it is slightly larger than a cannonical Micro layout... ;-) )

Happy Modelling,
Aim to Improve,
Prof Klyzlr

One small point - what Chris hasn't mentioned regarding the start date - is that this layout will be being shown at the Major Exhibition in Scotland - AMRSS show in Glasgow  SECC Exhibition Centre, starting Friday and continuing Saturday and Sunday at the end of this week! It is becoming a tradition that paint  on his layouts is still wet when the show starts! I shall have the pleasure of being there hinderinghelping with operating the layout. If you come, please stop by and say "Hello", He'll be the tall Handsome one - and I'll be the uglystubby guy in a "Darkside" tee

railroad that operates out of Tavares Florida.  Which is slight west and north of Orlando.  The engines color scheme is dead on.  They have quit now, but they used to run a dinner train.  Got a chance to ride it once.  Nice ride.

James

Do you mean the Orange Blossom Cannonball which operated out of Tavares 

​The two CF7s are from the Florida Central Railroad which still operates on five separate branch lines in Florida 

There are two branch lines under the name Florida Midland that operate out of Winter Haven and West Lake Wales  I have a black CF7 number 63 lettered for this road plus I am waiting for FMRR 65 to come from Southern Tier Models. 63 in now painted red and lettered for Florida Central. These as the only two that I can find that were lettered for the Florida Midland.

There are two lines in the north, one operating out of Ocala and the other from Newberry. This is called the Florida Northern and and I believe only had one CF7 lettered for the FNRR which was number 50 (the one that has been repainted and lettered for the FCEN as seen in the first YouTube clip) All the other units were lettered for the Florida Central but I have seen photos of FMRR 65 working around Ocala

BTW #50 now seems to be based out of West Lake Wales on the Florida Midland 

The Florida Central itself is based at Plymouth and has lines to Taff yard Orlando in the east Winter Gardens in the south and Sorrento and Umatilla to the north, although I believe these to lines are used for car storage 

The Florida Highland line is my freelance line which allows me to cherry pick the industries I want. It has one CF7 lettered for it, number 46

If I could work out how to upload photos I will share the photos of 46

Chris asked me to post these for him

Search google for Central Florida Railroad.

Great stuff! I like the weathering on the loco and covered hopper.

Florida Springs is at The Nottingham, UK Show this weekend - some more pics

Must be a relative term?  or it runs on top the Tampa Bay bridge? ......DaveB