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The Overseas Railroad (also known as Florida Overseas Railroad, the Overseas Extension, and Flagler's Folly) was an extension of the Florida East Coast Railway to Key West, a city located 128 miles (206 km) beyond the end of the Florida peninsula.
The Florida East Coast Railway (reporting mark FEC) is a Class II railroad operating in the U.S. state of Florida, currently owned by Grupo México. Built primarily in the last quarter of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century, the FEC was a project of Standard Oil principal Henry Flagler. He originally visited Florida with ...
Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2, 1830 – May 20, 1913) was an American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil, which was first based in Ohio.He was also a key figure in the development of the Atlantic coast of Florida and founder of the Florida East Coast Railway.
With the completion of Henry Flagler's Overseas Railway in the early 1910s, Key West was connected to the Florida mainland with Flagler's extension of the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC). [10] In the years prior to the Cuban Revolution in 1953, frequent transport existed between Key West and Havana.
Images of Rail, Railroad Depots of Central Florida. Arcadia Publishing. Retrieved 20 June 2020, ISBN 978-0-7385-5390-0. Sammons, Sandra Wallus, The Tale of the Two Henry’s, Henry Plant and henry Flagler and Their Railroads, Pineapple Press Biographies, 2010, ISBN 978-1-56164-456-8; Smithsonian.com - 1885 Train Depot Museum Retrieved August 14 ...
Whitehall, the Flagler residence-turned-museum in Palm Beach, was built nine years after his arrival from St. Augustine Memory Lane: Before Whitehall, Henry Flagler hung his hat at these Palm ...
The Dixie Flagler was a streamlined passenger train operated by the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) between Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida.It began in 1939 as the Henry M. Flagler, a regional service between Miami and Jacksonville, Florida; the FEC renamed it and extended it to Chicago a year later.
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