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…
It’s around 1890 and A.C. McSween has his crew laying track through a pine forest in Escambia County. This photo is from ‘Pensacola – The Deep Water City’.You can purchase a copy of the book by clicking here or below.https://amzn.to/3ywEDvs[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is just half of a full page spread of locomotives from ‘Black Gold and Silver Sands’ by James D. Snyder. Trains were the way to transport sugar out of the Everglades area. U.S. Sugar had a team of trains[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…