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Seminole Gulf Railway is a short line railroad in Southwest Florida that operates two former CSX lines. It offers freight service and passenger excursions, including a Murder Mystery Dinner Train and a Christmas Rail-Boat.
Southwestern Railroad: Leased the Green Cove and Midland Railway: Winston and Bone Valley Railroad: ACL: 1892 1909 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad: Withlacoochee Railway: G&F: 1893 1895 Valdosta Southern Railway: Yalaha and Western Railroad: ACL: 1900 1902 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad: Yellow River Railroad: SAL: 1887 1906 Louisville and Nashville ...
The Florida Southern's Charlotte Harbor Division was completed with its first train to its terminus in Punta Gorda (initially known as Trabue) on July 24, 1886. Plant would go on to open a hotel in Punta Gorda in 1896. This hotel, the Hotel Punta Gorda, would later be owned by Barron Collier (the namesake of nearby Collier County).
The Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, the successor of the Atlantic Coast Line, removed the adjacent railroad tracks in 1980. Collier County acquired the railroad's right of way to allow for the expansion of Goodlette-Frank Road.
The depot was constructed in 1927, when the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (via its Seaboard-All Florida Railway subsidiary) constructed its line to Naples. It was designed in the same Mediterranean Revival style the Seaboard Air Line used with its stations in Delray Beach, Deerfield Beach, Hialeah, and Homestead on the southeast coast of Florida (which were built around the same time), and is ...
In much of Okaloosa County, US 90 takes one of the names given to the former sections in Santa Rosa County; the "Old Spanish Trail." The first community it runs through is Holt, where it moves slightly further away from the railroad tracks at the intersection of Cooper Lane, and then encounters CR 189, a county extension of SR 189.
Deep Lake is an uninhabited area in Collier County, Florida, named after a 90 ft deep sinkhole. It was once a grapefruit growing and packing center with a railroad, but now it is part of the Big Cypress National Preserve.
Learn about the history and operations of the FEC, a Class II railroad owned by Grupo México and built by Henry Flagler in the 19th and 20th centuries. The FEC operated the first railroad to Key West and developed Florida's east coast with resorts, industries and communities.