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The West Coast Champion 1949 — 1967 New York, NY — Waycross, GA — St. Petersburg, FL renamed The Champion; West Indian Limited 1925 — 1928 New York, NY — Jacksonville, FL / west coast of Florida via ACL; West Virginian 1924 — 1932 Cincinnati, OH — White Sulphur Springs, WV — Hot Springs, VA — Washington, DC — New York, NY
The last leg to Miami was over the Florida East Coast. After a number of schedule changes throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, the train was running every other day opposite the City of Miami, both trains then carrying sleeping cars. By 1955, Florida West Coast service was added, using cars added to the West Coast Champion trains in ...
The Orange Blossom Special was a deluxe passenger train on the Seaboard Air Line Railroad connecting railroads between New York City and Miami in the United States. It ran during the winter season only. It covered 1,388.7 miles (2,234.9 km) on the Pennsylvania Railroad from New York City to Washington, D.C., the Richmond, Fredericksburg and ...
A map of the Florida West Coast Railroad and connections, with former railroads shown. The Florida West Coast Railroad ( reporting mark FWCR) was a 13-mile (21-kilometre) railroad owned by CSF Acquisition, Inc., which acquired it from CSX on December 13, 1987 as its first acquisition. [1] Archived 2004-10-18 at the Wayback Machine It ran west ...
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 the New York City area. The trip spanned 1,250 miles (2,010 km) one way, and the 60 car train was the equivalent of 250 trucks. [14]
September 22, 2023 at 5:09 AM. Taking a train ride from Miami to Orlando is no longer just talk. Brightline’s new higher-speed rail connection is starting after more than four years in the ...
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) The Southland was a night train between Chicago, Illinois (at Union Station) and different points in western and eastern Florida from 1915 to 1957. In the early years it was called the New Southland.[1] It was distinctive among Midwest to Florida trains as its western branch was the only all-season mid-20th-century ...
The South Central Florida Express now runs the No. 148 locomotive as part of USSC's heritage tourist passenger train named the Sugar Express. [14] During the summer months of 2021, U.S. Sugar acquired an ex-Wabash turntable from St. Louis, Missouri, which will eventually be used to turn the No. 148 locomotive around at Clewiston. [15]