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The last passenger train to serve Nashville was the long-distance Floridian, discontinued in 1979. [2] Today, Nashville is the third largest metropolitan area in the United States lacking inter-city rail service, though it sees commuter rail in the form of the WeGo Star. Since 1975, Atlanta has been served only by the long-distance Crescent.
The Ponce de Leon (Train #4) departed Jacksonville at midday going north via subsidiary Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad to Macon and Atlanta, Georgia, then on Southern's former East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad line to Chattanooga, Tennessee, traveling overnight to Cincinnati via Southern subsidiary Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway.
Interurban railways in Tennessee (1 P) L. Light rail in Tennessee (1 C, 1 P) S. ... City of Memphis (train) City of Miami (train) City of New Orleans (train) D. Dixie ...
Tennessee Central Railroad: Decatur, Chesapeake and New Orleans Railway: L&N: 1887 1893 Middle Tennessee and Alabama Railway: Duck River Valley Narrow Gauge Railroad: L&N: 1872 1879 Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway: Dyersburg Northern Railroad: IC: 1904 1909 Chicago, Memphis and Gulf Railroad: East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad ...
The first train from Tampa to Palmetto ran on December 5, 1918. [12] The railroad reached Bradenton and used it as its terminus, carrying through Pullman sleepers from connecting Atlantic Coast Line trains. [13] The tracks were completed to Sarasota by May 1924, and the first passenger train arrived in Sarasota in December of that year. [14]
After the NC&StL acquired the lease of the Western and Atlantic Railroad in 1890, it began promoting its passenger business from northern connections through Tennessee, and in early 1892 christened its existing trains 1 and 2 from Nashville to Atlanta as the Dixie Flyer, with through Pullman Palace sleeping cars from Nashville to Jacksonville; these at first were routed south of Atlanta via ...
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Juice Train is the popular name for famous unit trains of Tropicana fresh orange juice operated by railroads in the United States. On June 7, 1970, beginning on Seaboard Coast Line railroad, a mile-long Tropicana Juice Train began carrying one million gallons of juice with one weekly round-trip from Bradenton, Florida to Kearny, New Jersey , in ...