Florida Railroad Museum - 8330's Return 

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We’re all excited, thanks for the kind words!

Much appreciated on the info and the compliments. Thank you!

Much has been done, you might wanna come down and see it. Thanks!

Anytime, glad you enjoyed!

I’m glad the test went well keep up the good work dude👍

The invite was much appreciated, nice to get it done after a year. See ya soon 🤝

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Yea that CF7 is my favorite in their fleet. Thanks for the comment Bill!

We share the same gladness, thanks for watching

Our plans are currently to restore it to an ICG look. We’d utilize not the white scheme, but the dark gray and orange variant.

Someone’s gonna be happy…

@@kotabeaner I don't see any pictures of 8330 in orange and gray, but I was thinking that since a railroad museum in Kentucky refurbished 7738 back to its original orange and white, it would be nice to see one in orange and gray. Be sure you guys use better gray paint than ICG used. It tended to fade quickly. It took a while for that orange and gray to grow on me. Hope to see this unit in operation in the future. I live a couple of hours away. I enjoyed seeing a Paducah rebuild on the Seminole Gulf Murder Mystery Train. Can't wait to see this one. Grew up in ICG territory in Illinois. Always love to see Paducah rebuilds alive and kicking.

Right, 8330 never wore the dark gray. We’re thinking of going with it since it arguably looks better, and will hide any future dirt spots a lot better than bare white. There’s also a few museum-themed twists we plan to add to the loco that are more easily utilized with that scheme. We plan on using Imron industrial paint, so I imagine it’ll hold the shine for quite a while.

The more you know I guess, I’ll check it out!

We all do

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It is, I’m a guest but have connections with some good people

Oh wow, that’s a big difference! Thanks for info, and your years of service on the museum’s line!

@@multicolorfilms I loved every second of it...well...almost. We had some really rough days in the late 90's. I'm really proud of what the FRRM has become, Willow and the building in Parrish were just a pipe dream when I started.

@@mikephfl It's definitely looking great, what went down in the 90s?

@@multicolorfilms Well, that could fill a book, but when I started in April of 1995, we didn't have much $$$. There were no employees, only all volunteer to cover everything, including track maintenance. I myself spent a few saturdays changing ties my myself. Willow...well...the track ended at the gate...which has moved south quite a bit. All the shop area, field for events ,etc...was all woods and brush, no one ever went back there unless you were crazy. We survived...somehow and then we did a Thoms The Tank Engine event in 2001 and made $$ for the first time. Things started to take off then. I'm hoping to come back next April as it will have been 30 years since I started and I want to see how it changed. Keep making these videos, there are a lot of us not there anymore and we like watching and seeing what has become of the place.

@@mikewarren7436Thanks for the information! I’ll be back down there soon, and I have good connections to current employees now

They’re always open to accepting donations…

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