'FEC's Vacationeer'
**Hugh M. Comer
With a background of salt water bays and inlets, the Florida
East Coast's Vacationeer, number 73, is stopped by the camera
a mile or so north of St. Augustine, Florida in March, 1947.
Not many months remained before the handsome Mountain type,
complete with Worthington B. L. feedwater heater and six wheel
tender trucks, will be replaced by an orange and yellow diesel
of the FEC color scheme. Mountain type number 422 first breezed
down the Flagler System double iron in 1923 handling the heavy
varnishes of the boom era. Through boom, depression, and war
these oil burners performed admirably only to be replaced
in the late 40's by diesels.
This photograph appears in Atlanta Chapter NRHS' 2006 Calendar.
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Date Posted: 9/9/2006
