This locomotive served the workers of Flagler’s overseas railroad construction. Prior to that it led the Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Halifax Railroad. This photo is from ‘Born of the Sun: The Official Florida Bicentennial Commemorative Book’ , page 120. You can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Here is the train station in Archer, in Alachua county, in the late 1800s. The photo is from the Archer Historical Society : http://www.archerhistoricalsociety.org/ . Found this photograph on the internet with a great story attached. Unfortunately, this is still[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the Atlantic Coastline depot in Sebring in 1917, the same year it opened. The station closed in the 1960s and became a storage facility. This photo is from ‘Sebring – Circle on the Circle’ by Stephen A Olausen.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo is from Florida Memory of an Atlantic Coast Line train by the Silver Springs depot. Docked on the other side of the depot is the ‘Hiawatha’ steamboat of the Hart Line. The date attributed to this photo is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s one of two fire stations in Tavares (in Lake County): Fire Station No. 28. It used to be fire station No. 1 until about ten years ago when Tavares joined in with the rest of the county’s fire stations[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the Florida East Coast Railroad’s #113 locomotive in Bryant, in western Palm Beach County, August 1961. This photo is from ‘Speedway to Sunshine’ by Seth Bramson. One of the best books written of Florida. You can purchase a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The train depot that once stood in Maitland. I originally posted this in 2012 and didn’t note then the source of this photograph. With 10,000+ books in the Swampy’s Florida library, no telling what book this is from. . .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
$2,500 built Lakeland’s first train station in 1884 by Abraham Munn. Munn also funded the tracks and more railroad line east and west of Lakeland. . . . . . . . . . #Florida #train #FloridaTrain #RR #Transportation #Travel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This steam locomotive, named “Hattie”, ran cars between Tampa and Ybor City. This photo is from 1886. This photo is from ‘Tampa: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below.: https://amzn.to/3iyG49J This Book is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Lutz, in northern Hillsborough County, railroad depot. The Florida Public Service Commission designated this depot unneeded in 1965 and supposedly sold it for $125. The buyer bought it to sell it and found no buyer after a short[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the locomotive that hauled tons of lumber for Dowling and Sons Sawmill in Manatee County. The Dowling Mills started in 1925 and had to shut down due to The Depression in the early 1930s. This photo is from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
US Sugar Corp. Mill in Clewiston, 1962. – Swampy’s Florida Postcards.
All Posts Here’s the US Sugar Corp. Mill in Clewiston in 1962. The card claims this is the largest raw sugar mill in the continental United States. I believe these structures still exist there. Much of US Sugar’s structures in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…