Pinsly Railroad Rail Speeders NB from Silver Springs Shores/Candler, FL into Ocala Part 2 of 2

Part 2: The group of Rail Speeders is near Candler at the Oak Road crossing making their turnaround to head back to Ocala on the old ACL/SCL line that currently ends at a lumber yard a few hundred yards to the right from view of my filming. This area was touted back in the late 1960's and early 1970's as the place to be before Ocala boomed. The boom never happened and Ocala does not seem too much different than from what I remember as a child and from encounters since visiting every couple of years after our move to Orlando. For history buffs, about a mile from the crossing was an old motel called at different times Panorama Inn or Silver Lake Lodge was the motel of choice when folks like my parents bought a lot, and like the rail line going further south, has been demolished. The making of Silver Spring Shores into a major residential haven never really materialized. There are quite a few industrial parks and businesses in the area, but only a couple this far south have spurs from the rail line. I can only hope that Pinsly's Florida Northern Railroad will continue to serve the Silver Springs Shores/Candler, FL area for a long time to come.