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 station in Stuart was built in 1933 after a fire destroyed the station previous to this one. In 1966 this one was demolished after passenger service stopped to Stuart. This photo is from ‘History of Martin County’ by Janet[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s 1896 in Miami and the first regular train for the Florida East Coast Railroad (FEC) arrives. This photo is from ‘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…
A shot from the Lake Mary water tank of the ACLRR train depot. Photo from ‘Lake Mary’s Beginnings & the Roaring Twenties in Lake Mary & Sanford, Florida ‘ by Margaret Green. The book is out of print, but may[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Common travel in the latter half of the 1800s was horse & wagon (To the left of the depot) to a train or to a ferry to cross rivers. Or some combination thereof. Often there were so few going hither[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo from 1938 in Plant City, Florida, shows, what Florida Memory notes: “This was the arrival of the first diesel powered passenger train in the southeast.” The photograph is from Florida Memory here: https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/33349…#Train #FloridaTrain #Railroad #FloridaRailroad #Travel #FloridaTravel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I found this photo on the Miami Transit website and the photograph has this caption: ‘Staff and crew of the Florida East Coast Railway by the streamliner “Henry M. Flagler” in 1939. The Railey-Milam hardware store in the background was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s the ‘Florida Fruit Express” making it’s way through the orange groves. This postcard is postmarked December 5th, 1919. It was sent to Mrs. Thomas Matthews in Montgomery, Alabama. The handwriting is very difficult to make out by the sender.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Dinky Line train in the Orlando rail yard around 1900. The train ran as part of the Orlando-Winter Park Railroad that started in 1889. The train ride was irregular and difficult and it wasn’t unusual for the train[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This Baldwin engine was built in 1919 and, in the photograph, sits in Century, Florida, in 1960.Learn more about the engine and the photo by clicking here. It’s where I came across the photograph. Century, Florida, lines the Florida Alabama[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This rounded corner postcard is of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad’s coach and pullman streamliner. The card is not postmarked, but I would guess around 1970. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection………….#Florida #Trains #Transportation #RR #Railroad #FloridaTransportation[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo is from ‘Speedway to Sunshine’ by Seth Bramson.You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below.http://amzn.to/2c3C21F This book is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection……………>>#floridaeastcoastrailway #Train #Friday #floridatravel #Train #Transportation #History #FloridaHistory #Travelhistory #FloridaTRavels #floridatransportation #trains #Miami[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…