This is the Florida East Coast Railroad’s #113 locomotive in Bryant, in western Palm Beach County, August 1961. This photo is from ‘Speedway to Sunshine’ by Seth Bramson. One of the best books written of Florida. You can purchase a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The train depot that once stood in Maitland. I originally posted this in 2012 and didn’t note then the source of this photograph. With 10,000+ books in the Swampy’s Florida library, no telling what book this is from. . .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
$2,500 built Lakeland’s first train station in 1884 by Abraham Munn. Munn also funded the tracks and more railroad line east and west of Lakeland. . . . . . . . . . #Florida #train #FloridaTrain #RR #Transportation #Travel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This steam locomotive, named “Hattie”, ran cars between Tampa and Ybor City. This photo is from 1886. This photo is from ‘Tampa: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below.: https://amzn.to/3iyG49J This Book is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Lutz, in northern Hillsborough County, railroad depot. The Florida Public Service Commission designated this depot unneeded in 1965 and supposedly sold it for $125. The buyer bought it to sell it and found no buyer after a short[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the locomotive that hauled tons of lumber for Dowling and Sons Sawmill in Manatee County. The Dowling Mills started in 1925 and had to shut down due to The Depression in the early 1930s. This photo is from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
All Posts Here’s the US Sugar Corp. Mill in Clewiston in 1962. The card claims this is the largest raw sugar mill in the continental United States. I believe these structures still exist there. Much of US Sugar’s structures in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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…
Here’s a train of the Florida East Coast Railroad making it’s way out of Jacksonville on it’s way to Miami. The train is Mountain 432. That’s the St. Johns River below. This photo is from ‘Speedway to Sunshine’ by Seth[…]↓ 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…