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Lake Yale


Fort Mason


Lake Eustis


Tavares


Lake Harris


TE&G Ellsworth Lake Jem


FCEN (ACL)


Lake Dora


Ellsworth Jct. Gainesboro Zellwood Palm Mcdonald Plymouth Apopka Ferndale Lake Apopca Clarcona Villa Nova Ocoee Winter Garden 0 5 MILES 10 15 to Kissimmee Toronto


Winter Park


Modello Park Fairville


Springs Longwood Visiting the Cannonball First, be aware that the locomotive


may not always lead and it may not op- erate boiler first. A little bit of luck might be needed when you plan your visit. The train departs from Tavares and heads southwest before turning southeast as it rounds the west end of


Eustis Mount Dora Sorrento


Sylvan Lake


ACL- Atlantic Coast Line AMTK- Amtrak CSXT- CSX Transportation FCEN- Florida Central SAL- Seaboard Air Line SCL- Seaboard Coast Line


Tavares ORLANDO


to Jacksonville


Lake Monroe SANFORD


movie was in 1964 when the Cotton Belt caboose appeared in This Property Is Condemned starring Natalie Wood and Robert Redford. In the ensuing years, other films were made in Arkansas with the train, including Boxcar Bertha with Barbara Hershey (1972), CBS’s The Blue and the Gray (1981), ABC’s North And South (1985, with a sequel in 1986), and feature film O Brother, Where Art Thou? with George Clooney (1999). Mogul No. 2 didn’t hit the big time, however, until 2007’s 3:10


to Yuma with Russell


Crowe and Christian Bale. Most re- cently the train was featured in the re- make of True Grit (2010) with Matt Da- mon, Jeff Bridges and Josh Brolin.


ORLANDO


BELOW: The bridge over the Dora Canal was modernized in early 2013 with this structure replacing a wooden trestle. An amazing amount of boat traffic uses the canal.


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FCEN (SAL)


SCL


CSXT/AMTK (ACL)


ACL


SCL


SCL (SAL)


FCEN (SAL)


CSXT (SAL)


CSXT/AMTK (ACL)


SCL (ACL)


FCEN (ACL)


SCL


SCL (ACL)


CSXT (ACL)


FLORIDA


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