Don’t know if these folks are coming, going or if all this was staged, but here they are in the Havana Special in Key West in the throes of the Depression in 1930. This photo is from ‘Speedway to Sunshine’[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo is from ‘Boca Grande, Lives of an Island’ by Charles E. Blanchard. You can get your own copy of the book by clicking here or below. https://amzn.to/3ri88CL This book is part of the Swampy’s Florida library. . .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Presidential Pullman used by Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower. This postcard isn’t postmarked, so it is very difficult to figure the date of the postcard. the train car is no longer in Fort Lauderdale. Now it is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Photo is from Yesterday’s St Petersburg by Hampton Dunn. You can purchase a copy of this wonderful photo book with accurate history here: https://amzn.to/32qbWCS This book is part of the Swampy’s Florida library. . . . . . . .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the Holopaw train station in 1940. Holopaw is a very old cattle ranching community in eastern Osceola County. It’s major intersection has been State Road 441 and U.S. 192. This station was part of the Florida East Coast[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the 1928 Seaboard train station in Naples. Today the building still stand and holds the Naples Train Museum. Click here to plan a visit to the Naples Depot Museum: https://colliermuseums.com/locations/naples_depot Click here to plan a visit to the Naples[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Friday Train Stops: Hawthorne Railroad Station, 1912. The small city of Hawthorne, in eastern Alachua County once had a train stop coming north from Ocala. Hawthrone was once an up and coming city. It’s still there along[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Narcoossee was once an up and coming city. There were people living around there, businesses, This photo is from ‘Osceola County Centennial 1887-1987’ by the Centennial Book Committee. Click here or below to purchase a copy of this book. https://amzn.to/31XUWUy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the railroad depot for Sutherland. Sutherland was a shortening of the Southern Land and Development Company. Later Sutherland was renamed Palm Harbor, which still sits in northern Pinellas County beside Dunedin……….#Train #Railroad #FlordiaTrain #Floridarailroad #Floridalife #FloridaLifestyle #Transportation #FloridaTrasportation[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo is from ‘ Pensacola: Florida’s First Place City : A Pictorial History’ by Jesse Earle Bowden, page 81. You can purchase one by clicking here or below. https://amzn.to/3cRqgWV This book is part of the Swampy’s Florida library. .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo of this locomotive in Gainesville in 1881 is from ‘Tap Lines’, a historic railroad site. You can learn much more about the engine and railway line by clicking here: http://www.taplines.net/fs/fs.html . . . . . . . .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…