Thanks Nick.

Sounds Amazing, Thanks.

Cool

: ) !!!

I want to read it

Fight to keep this nation as you found it in your youth.

You should be very proud.

@@dcasper8514 My only regret was I never got to add the planned narration. I had the script but the powers got in a dispute over which of three large donors who wanted to do it to choose and rather than alienate nice, generous folks we left it like it was. It's been my secret up to right now that the soundtrack was from a subliminal motivational feel good tape.

It has changed tremendously, but it has not lost it's charm or it's personality.

Thank you for your comments too.

I was just going to add a comment saying the same thing but since you already brought it up, I will just add to yours and say that I wholeheartedly agree. Les’s book is a must-read for anyone interested in this topic.

It's amazing that I JUST finished the very same book and found this looking for more information.

Yes I have that and loved it. Great book.

Thank you for the recommendation, I will definitely check it out. 👍

He’s a great guy, absolutely fascinating!

Actual history.

Hi Flagler!

Have you seen any of the remains of the attempted “Florida Canal.” My Dad would point out to us kids driving through Central Florida.

I love Brightline. I hope it suceeds.

The piano track is subtle and haunting at the same time. Her voice is so soothing

Yeah, too bad they left out the part about Henry Flagler utilizing slave labor to build everything.

I ❤Key Largo but only the opening dock scene was filmed there

I grew up in Miami 59-67. Went Fishing in Keys on something called “The Old Railroad Bridge.” It was wood and it seemed to never went anywhere. Skeeters 🦟 so big, fierce and dense it was absolute misery.

Hmm. I wonder if Seth’s historic account details the situation as it was with Flagler, ie; Henry’s fondness of slave labor? Which, if google is correct, was utilized by Henry in contracting every last bit of his empire. Not just a shame, but a damn shame, to deny the people who truly built that bridge any form of acknowledgement….but, that’s how it goes in the good old USA. (FYI, I never knew about this until I had gotten a hunch while watching this video, in particular, when the individual spoke about the employment conditions in which harry was rumored to scoop a bunch of immigrants fresh off the boat. Even though this was refuted, it still caught my attention bc wtf is she saying all this for, if not to correct a common “misconception” about the labor practices. With that in mind, I googled “Flagler, Slavery” and what do you know!! a whole treasure trove of evidence regarding Mr.flaglers use of “forced labor”. I encourage you to look it up for yourself. Not everything is what it seems on the outside. even after watching a seemingly “in depth” documentary. You must always conduct your own due diligence, especially in this day and age.)

That was the adjacent old bridge to key west; there is a 7 mile portion.

Cleveland is where it all began. ESSO, (Standard Oil), gas stations were found everywhere .

lol what. The Panamanian gov is essentially US client state so there’s that. America still leads the world is pretty much all medical research and high tech inventions. Smart phones aren’t difficult to make, you just need to millions of them so China does it. You still haven’t figured out how the whole capitalism thingy works 😂

Thank you for your comments.

Did it use draft animals or was it gravity powered?

It used draft animals.

Weren't the concrete piles taken over by the highway for much of the length?

The road built on top of the Railroad structures

So what really happened?

ITYM 1948?

When 1080p and 2160p videos are now STANDARD FARE on UKposts, why is this video being presented in the lowest-possible resolution? Answer: It is largely because this particular subject matter (HISTORY plus OLD TRAINS) is of very little interest to the great majority of today's viewers - therefore, naturally, what we have here is a miserable CRUMB tossed at the tiny handful of people who'd even bother to take the time out of their busy lives to watch it. It's a shame, because whoever created this film in the first place put a lot of hard work into researching and producing it - but never mind all of that - what we have here reflects the harsh reality of today's media universe, and what it prioritizes and values versus what it does not. Remember, also, that Public Broadcasting is the poor stepchild of the major news and Internet streaming news services, and so their material gets short shrift.

This is likely a copy of a copy of a copy of video file that has been compressed umpteen times because no one knows where the original master is located. No bad intent was involved, I assure you. I used to deal with broadcast TV as an editor.

It’s quite fanciful to dream up story lines about purposely degrading historical content, or posit that funding woes are somehow responsible for an inability to upload in 1080 (as if these two things are even related?!), but the lousy quality appears to be a case of human error, plain and simple. To wit, even the copy of this on PBS’s very own website-which is its “original source”, so much for the “copy of a copy of a copy” theory, too-is equally degraded. This program is from 2012, which was well into the hi def era, so there has to be a pristine 720 or 1080 version on somebody’s hard drive somewhere. Someone just goofed when they uploaded it. There’s a reason for that old saying about the simplest explanation usually being the most plausible.

@@joscallinet6260 This program first Aired: 01/23/2012 The original source material is old stock black and white film stock, filmed 100 years ago PBS/WPBT is a top shelf broadcasting company that has created MANY outstanding documentaries for decades. Sorry that your sensibilities are hurt because of a lack of 1080 p I guess you missed the message behind this documentary.

Overseas Highway. Developed upon the remnants of the 1935 hurricane, A1A south of Dade County would become the successor to the original Overseas Railroad. FEC still operates freight rail from Dade northbound. Brightline passenger rail operations currently use this right of way between Miami and W Palm Beach, with newly built extensions now serving MCO/Orlando, with plans to extend to Tampa/St Petersburg.

And with Brightline passenger service between Miami and Orlando beginning September 22, 2023! The Roaming Railfan channel has a whole series on it.

FEC has been doing well, it seems. Brightline passenger service. Upgraded Port Everglades intermodal yard. Shell rock trains still run north. FEC even has clean running propane/diesel units; two locomotives that share a propane tender between them. A well-run railway!

its called 'european'

Looks like instead of using the original 1080p video, they ripped it /re encoded it at 240p to save disk space and upload faster.

Oh puh-lease. When ANY PLACE in Florida says "we're open!", are you going to get your panties in a knot? WE WERE OPEN, while states like Michigan were implementing mask mandates, preventing people from buying seeds in Home Depot, closing businesses until they went OUT of business, and having their state police prevent people from driving 4 hours away to their 2nd home in the country so as to temporarily provide some population relief in the cities, and to reduce their chance of getting Covid. It just sounds like you're whining at a state that exhibited some guts and can-do attitude by refusing to allow itself to be locked down in the face of zero evidence that all the masking and lockdowns would do anybody any good. This is very painful for you; we get that. So out of kindness and love, I recommend that you leave the Keys alone and don't ever visit Florida. I'm sure you'd hate it anyway, what with all that 'merican liberty being so painful for you.

Watch it