Reinhard
you asked for it ....
This is what I've found out, mostly from trawling the internet
First of all have a look at this
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...K8JFuEg7cv
This is the Florida Midland Railroad (FMID) and they have two branchs, one that starts from a small yard at Lake Wales
https://goo.gl/maps/LvqGc and move alota lumber to Frostproof
https://goo.gl/maps/g3xnM plus a large amount of hoppers to Florida's Natural Growers
https://goo.gl/maps/4q8fE
Their second line runs from the CSX at Winter Haven
https://goo.gl/maps/wskaf to Bartow Municipal Airport and Industrial Park
https://goo.gl/maps/cj9eo As well as the ethanol tankcars there seems to be boxcars and more lumber cars .
I plan to check out these two line in seven weeks time when we go back to Florida
Next is the Florida Central Railroad (FCEN) which runs out of Modello Yard
https://goo.gl/maps/qInjS to the CSX at Taffs yard Orlando in the south.
To the north they run to Apopka, Zellwood, Mt. Dora, Tavares, Eustis, Umatilla, Ocoee, and Winter Garden plus the Silver Star Industrial Park
Modello Yard is on my list of places to visit.
They move vegetable oils and corn from the Midwest to Frito’s Orlando manufacturing plant
https://goo.gl/maps/HQeTu
Lumber to Lowe’s, Sunbelt Forest Products, Mid Florida Lumber, 84 Lumber, Dixie Plywood and others
They move the plastic pellets to Fiskars’ production plant in Apopka
https://goo.gl/maps/EmcjS
They move all of the corn syrup from the Midwest to Coke’s Orlando bottling facility and their CO2
https://goo.gl/maps/itdfX
Move all Corona beer and most Miller/Coors products to Florida Distributing Company’s warehouse
https://goo.gl/maps/bSBen
Move LPG to multiple AmeriGas and Blue Rhino locations
This area looks interesting to model as well
https://goo.gl/maps/9eMhG
there seems to be a lumber yard, feed and seed plant, plastics plant Citrus juices producer and even an Auto rake unloading point
Then you have the Florida Northern (FNOR) based out of Ocala
https://goo.gl/maps/pNJZv
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...6uZYO9J6zl
This place even has street running.
There is also another branch of the Florida Northern up at Newberry
https://goo.gl/maps/iM1Tx
But this is mostly unit coal trains I think
https://youtu.be/MtLFZ6ME6H8
So there you go plenty of freight
Plenty of industries
But only two working CF7s now