Here is an image of Jacksonville, Tampa, Key West Railway sometime in the 1800s. The railroad was incorporated in 1878 as the Tampa, Peace Creek and St. Johns Railway with the intent of providing rail service to areas on the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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 are the railroad tracks and railroad park in Winter Haven in 1912. The depot is just off the photo. To the upper left is the ‘Pastime Pool Room’. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Polk County’ by Louise Frisbie.You can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…