A little person with a big hat stands atop this locomotive ran that between 1889 until 1895 from Jupiter to Juno. The railroad was named the Celestial Railroad. It’s name came as two other rail stops between Jupiter and Lake[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Atlantic Coast Line train depot in Bartow in the early 1900s. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Florida’ by Nixon Smiley. You can purchase a copy by clicking here: https://amzn.to/4eWuopm This book is aprt of the Swampy’s Florida colelction.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Seaboard Air Line train depot in Ocala in the early 1900s. In 1917 the Seaboard Air Line and the competing Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, with a depot down the road from this one, combined to create a new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Florida East Coast Railway depot in New Smyrna Beach in the early 1900s. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Florida’ by Nixon Smiley. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below: https://amzn.to/2PVo74w . . . . .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Behind the train cars is the Seaboard Air Line Railroad’s locomotive #333 arriving in Gainesville on April 30th, 1940. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Florida’ Annual Edition, Vol.1′ You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below. https://amzn.to/33jgk3W This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Lemon City train station in the late 1800s. It wasn’t long before Lemon City became a part of Miami. Lemon City these days is better known as Little Haiti by Haitians who wanted to tag their island name[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was one of the depots found along the Orange Belt Line in the 1880s that had a Russian motive. This one was in St Petersburg. This photo is from ‘The Plant System’ by Gregg Turner and Seth Bramson. You[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the area of Port Tampa with the Henry Plant hotel in the background at the turn of the century.. This photo is from ‘Tampa the Treasure City’ by Anthony Pizzo. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Atlantic Coast Line railroad station in Altamonte Springs in the mid-1920s. I initially posted this 11 years ago before I was adding sources, but likely the Schofner Altamote Springs history book. . . . . . #Florida #AltamonteSprings
Here’s the “Henry M. Flagler”, the Florida East Coast Railroad’s first diesel engine. Between December 3rd, 1939 to December 18th, 1940, the engine pulled a train of cars between Jacksonville to Miami. After, the engine rode the same route but,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A fine illustration of the Jacksonville Tampa and Key West Railway Depot at Seville from a copy of the 1880 ‘Florida! It’s Climate, Productions and Characteristics.’ You can purchase your own copy of ‘ Florida, Its Climate, Productions, and Characteristics’[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Logging was the business to be in throughout the Florida Panhandle through the later 1800s and early 1900s. This postcard depicts a train that has gathering cut trees to be taken to one of the few sawmills scattered across the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…