Here’s the locomotive of the Florida Railway and Navigation Company in Tallahassee in 1901. This photo is from ‘A Pictorial History of Florida’. You can purchase a copy of this book by clicking here or below: https://amzn.to/2K2eM8R This book is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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This is a wood burning engine of the Atlantic Coast Line in St. Petersburg in 1908. This photo is from ‘Tampa Bay Through The Times’ by the St. Petersburg Times. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Henry Plant’s train rumbles away from Henry Plant’s Belleview Biltmore Hotel in Belleair around 1900. At this time the train actually entered the building. While working to save the Biltmore, once the largest wooden occupied structure in the world, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the first train coming down the tracks in Apalachicola, April 30th, 1907, almost 112 years ago.. This photo is from ‘Bicentennial Guide to Florida’. You can purchase a copy of this book by clicking here or below : https://amzn.to/2ItxbuA[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A passenger train comes in from south Florida to the Stuart train station sometime in the 1940s. This was back the rails would have rains coming and going. The fencing was to prevent folks running between trains. This photo is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This engine, No. 21, was built in 1886 for the Florida Southern Railroad and named ‘Ocala’ after the city. This photo is from ‘The Plant System’ by Gregg Turner and Seth Bramson. You can purchase a copy by clicking here[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Coming out of Jacksonville in 1898, and heading south on the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway is Engine #6. The Baldwin Locomotive Works built the engine. This line never got to Key West and was handled by the Plant[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s 1906 and the railroad repair yard in Dunnellon, in western Marion County, is busy. Notice the steam coming from the locomotive and the people in the background to the right. I’d be curious to know how this photo was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Postcards: Flagler’s Hotel Ponce de Leon in Saint Augustine.
Here’s, what is known today, as Flagler College in St. Augustine. At the time of this undated postcard this was, as it was built, the Hotel Ponce deLeon built by Florida pioneer Henry Flagler as he built the Florida East[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Dania train station in 1916. This photo is from the book of the history of the Florida East Coast Railway, ‘Speedway to Sunshine’ by Seth Bramson. You can purchase one by clicking here or below.: https://amzn.to/2ROA6T3 This book is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s hard to imagine Siesta Key, Sarasota, once looked like this. So much of this wiped away since 1950. From ‘Yesterday’s Sarasota’ by Del Marth. You can get your own copy of this book of historic photos and captions[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the Tampa and Gulf Coast Railroad that connected Tampa, Clearwater and St. Petersburg. The train was nick named the “Tug and grunt”. This photo is from 1914, which is the same year the train became part of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…