Swampy's Florida

This is the Manatee Crate Company’s No. 7 engine. It ran on the East and West Coast Railway that once existed in DeSoto, Manatee and Sarasota Counties. The tracks were proposed for abandonment in 1932, but weren’t entirely abandoned until 1945.

This photo is from ‘Ghost railroads of Sarasota County;: An account of the abandoned lines of the county and city’.
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