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…
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…
This is just half of a full page spread of locomotives from ‘Black Gold and Silver Sands’ by James D. Snyder. Trains were the way to transport sugar out of the Everglades area. U.S. Sugar had a team of trains[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…