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…
Here’s the Florida City train station and post office. This photo is from ‘Speedway to Sunshine’ by Seth Bramson.You can purchase one by clicking here or below.https://amzn.to/3eavWMr This book is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection………….#Florida #PolkCounty #Lakeland #Trains #Flagler#Transportation[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nabbed this from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Coast_Line_Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . . #Florida #Trains #Flagler#Transportation #Travel #FloridaTravel #FloridaTransportation #RR #Railroad
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…
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…