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Orange Blossom Cannonball - Tavares Eustis & Gulf

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#1

During a visit to my son and daughter in-law in Plant City FL, we took a day trip to Tavares FL to ride the Orange Blossom Cannonball. It’s a 2-6-0 wood fired steamer originally built in 1907. It was converted to oil burning and ran that way until it was recently converted back to wood. We took the 1hr/8mile trip and highly recommend adding it to your steam locomotive destinations. The locomotive was used in several movies, here’s the web site for all the info: http://www.orangeblossomcannonball.com/

#2

ahhh, nice pictures… I see you got them posted… :slight_smile:

#3

Cool. It’s always nice to take a trip to the past :slight_smile:

Ralph

#4

Nice pictures Dan! I think I have seen this in a couple movies I have.

Thanks for posting them.

#5

Forgot to add a video link of when it left the station after our ride was over!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdaDGJHxwV0&feature=youtu.be

#6

Man, I been through Tavares lots of times and never knew that was there…:wink:

#7

Hey, lookin’ good! Hope you guys are having fun.

#8

Way cool, Dan! Dunno 'bout y’all, but steam train whistles always give me “chicken skin,” as the Hawaiians say. Thanks for the video.

#9

Hope you both had a great time