Homestead Sub Subject to Growth

I was talking it over with another railfan and came to realize that, despite the slowdown the Homestead Sub (HS) hit over the years, there is some growth potential left.

• Stock Building Supply in Homestead closed down in 2009. However, since 2010, that spur has seen the light of crushed stone gondolas, and even more recently, a covered hopper over several times. There is a spur track that runs parallel to a road that can serve as a team track.
• FPL's Turkey Point plant received a transformer last week through Homestead. In any event FPL does need something, they can turn to CSX.
• Florida Rock ran a rarity, a rock train from Krome Quarry. This shows that more rock is likely to be mined from there to add fuel to the Homestead Sub.
• Developments along the Lehigh Spur and Homestead Sub show a lot of railroad-ready buildings. Plus there are possibilities that warehouse tracks can be rebuilt at the neck of the Homestead wye.
• Coal ash output from Cemex grew in the past months.
• Orr W.T.P. carloads grew.

So hopefully this will be good news to railfans of the line, but we'll just leave it to whim.