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The Florida East Coast Railway depot in Sebastian.The structure was built in 1893. Beginning in 1892, when landowners south of Daytona petitioned him to extend the railroad 80 miles (130 km) south, Flagler began laying new railroad tracks; no longer did he follow his traditional practice of purchasing existing railroads and merging them into his growing rail system.
August 13, 1979. 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.
Brightline. Brightline (reporting mark BLFX) is an intercity rail route in the United States that runs between Miami and Orlando, Florida. Part of the route runs on track owned and shared by the Florida East Coast Railway. Brightline is the only privately owned and operated intercity passenger railroad in the United States.
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. Length. 5,155 miles (8,296 kilometres) [1] The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (reporting mark ACL) was a United States Class I railroad formed in 1900, though predecessor railroads had used the ACL brand since 1871. In 1967, it merged with long-time rival Seaboard Air Line Railroad to form the Seaboard ...
In Florida, Brightline runs along the Florida East Coast Railroad corridor. Although a number improvements were made along the route, particularly the addition of a second track between Miami and ...
4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Seaboard–All Florida Railway was a subsidiary of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad that oversaw two major extensions of the system in the early 1920s to southern Florida on each coast during the land boom. One line extended the Seaboard's tracks on the east coast from West Palm Beach down to ...
By 1902, the Jacksonville Terminal Company and the Union Terminal were jointly owned by five railroads. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Seaboard Air Line Railroad, and Florida East Coast Railway each owned 25% of the company, and the Southern Railway and the Georgia Southern and Florida Railway each with 12.5% ownership. [4]
MiamiCentral was originally a railroad station opened April 15, 1896 as the southern terminus of Henry Flagler 's Florida East Coast Railway (FEC). The station was the southern end of the FEC line until 1905, when construction began to Key West via the Overseas Railroad. The FEC built a wooden passenger station building in 1912 at site of what ...