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The Tampa Southern Railroad was a subsidiary of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL) originally running from Uceta Yard in Tampa south to Palmetto, Bradenton, and Sarasota with a later extension southeast to Fort Ogden in the Peace River valley built shortly after. It was one of many rail lines completed during the Florida land boom of the 1920s.
Seaboard Air Line Railroad: Tampa, Peace Creek and St. John's River Railroad: ACL: 1878 1881 Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway: Tampa Southern Railroad: TAS ACL: 1917 1982 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad: Tampa Terminal Company: SAL: 1906 Tampa and Thonotosassa Railroad: ACL: 1893 1901 Savannah, Florida and Western Railway: Tampa Union ...
The railroad would close and sell the Seddon Island terminal in 1979. [8] Seaboard built Yeoman Yard in the 1950s to mostly replace what is now known as Old Tampa Yard downtown. [9] The AZA line south to East Tampa was built later in 1924 by the Tampa Southern Railroad, a subsidiary of the Atlantic Coast Line. [10]
Palmetto Subdivision passing the historic Bradentown depot. The line from East Tampa to Bradenton was built by the Tampa Southern Railroad, which was first incorporated in 1917 as a subsidiary of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. The Tampa Southern's tracks were completed to Palmetto by December 1918 and to Bradenton by May 1924.
Tampa, FL. / 27.95222°N 82.45111°W / 27.95222; -82.45111. Tampa Union Station (TUS) is a historic train station in Tampa, Florida. It was designed by Joseph F. Leitner and was opened on May 15, 1912, by the Tampa Union Station Company. Its original purpose was to combine passenger operations for the Atlantic Coast Line, the Seaboard ...
Tampa, then a village of a few hundred inhabitants, was made the terminus of his southern Florida railroad and also the home port for a new line of steamships to Havana. For the accommodation of winter visitors he built in Tampa, in the style of a Moorish palace, an enormous hotel costing over $3,000,000 and covering 6 acres situated on 150 acres.
4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Live Oak, Tampa and Charlotte Harbor Railroad was a historic railroad in Florida chartered by railroad tycoon Henry B. Plant. It was built as an extension of Plant's Live Oak and Rowlands Bluff Railroad. Together, the two lines ran from Live Oak, Florida to Gainesville via High Springs.
The Florida Southern Railway was a railway that operated in Florida in the late 1800s. It was one of Florida's three notable narrow gauge railways when it was built along with the South Florida Railway and the Orange Belt Railway. The Florida Southern was originally chartered to run from Lake City south through central Florida to Charlotte ...