Editing Indian River County, Florida (section)

===Train===
[[Amtrak]] began planning to add service along the east coast of Florida, including a station in [[Vero Beach]], in 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schmidt |first=Walt |date=2003-06-26 |title=Amtrak plan in slow locomotion |url=https://ble-t.org/news/amtrak-plan-in-slow-locomotion/ |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen |language=en}}</ref> In 2012, Amtrak announced that it hoped to start service over the [[Florida East Coast Railway]] (FEC) line in 2013.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 9, 2012 |title=Amtrak: Flagler Line Will Happen |url=https://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2012-jan-amtrak-flagler-line-will-happen |work=Metro Jacksonville}}</ref> The All Aboard Florida project (now [[Brightline]]) was also announced in 2012, and now operates over part of the FEC track that Amtrak intended to use, but does not stop anywhere in Indian River County.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Reisman |first=Laurence |title=Excited by Brightline start, shiny trains, quad gates? After 11 years, here's the letdown. |url=https://www.tcpalm.com/story/opinion/columnists/laurence-reisman/2023/09/22/brightline-train-miami-orlando-run-vero-amtrak-wanted/70853541007/ |date=September 22, 2023 |work=TCPalm}}</ref>  

Florida East Coast Railway serves a team yard in Vero Beach for off-line customers that don't have direct rail service via spurs. There are two lumber and sheetrock/structural steel customers who receive boxcars, center beam and bulkhead flatcars, and occasionally- gondolas, at the team yard.<ref>http://www.irmpo.com/Documents/Amtrak.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713060205/http://www.irmpo.com/Documents/Amtrak.pdf |date=July 13, 2011 }} {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irmpo.com/ |title=Home |publisher=irmpo.com |date=July 1, 2012 |access-date=December 18, 2012}}</ref>