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The Winston and Bone Valley Railroad was a railroad line running in the Bone Valley region of Central Florida. It connected to the South Florida Railroad main line (the current CSX A Line) near Lakeland. A vast majority of the line remains in service by CSX Transportation, who operates it today as their Bone Valley Subdivision.
The northernmost 14 miles of the line from Lakeland to Bartow were built by the South Florida Railroad in September 1884. It was the southern leg of the South Florida Railroad's Pemberton Ferry Branch (the northern leg of the branch north of the main line would be part of the High Springs–Lakeland Line). The Bartow Branch was also built by ...
By 1907, the line was completed between Boca Grande and Arcadia, where repair shops were located, as well as a connection to the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad's Lakeland—Fort Myers Line (the former Florida Southern Railway). The Boca Grande port included a 3,000 foot dock for loading large vessels directly from railroad cars.
The Lakeland Subdivision is a CSX Transportation rail line in Florida. It runs along CSX's A Line from just west of Lakeland and heads west through Plant City to the community of Mango in Hillsborough County, just east of Tampa. The east end of line is at Lakeland Junction, where it continues west from the Carters Subdivision of the A Line.
The original Lakeland station's structure was opened by the South Florida Railroad in 1886 as a two-story wooden edifice that burned down in 1901. The replacement proved to be inadequate for contemporary railroad needs and was replaced in 1910 by the South Florida Railroad's successor, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL), with a one-story brick building.
Florida Railway and Navigation Company: Florida Railroad: SAL: 1853 1872 Atlantic, Gulf and West India Transit Company: Florida Railway: 1905 Florida Railway and Navigation Company: SAL: 1884 1888 Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad: Florida and Alabama Railroad: before 1914 1939 N/A [1] Florida, Alabama and Gulf Railroad: before 1911 1919
This segment was built in 1886 by the Florida Southern Railway as their Charlotte Harbor Division (which later became the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad's Lakeland–Fort Myers Line). [7] Today, this segment of the Valrico Subdivision ends less than a mile south of the Polk/Hardee County line in Bowling Green (just south of the South Fort Meade ...
Florida Southern Railway (Atlantic Coast Line Railroad) General James A. Van Fleet State Trail: 29.2 miles (47.0 km) Polk, Lake, and Sumter Counties Florida Western and Northern Railroad (Seaboard Air Line Railroad) Good Neighbor Trail: 10.7 miles (17.2 km) Hernando County: Florida Southern Railway-- Brooksville Branch (Atlantic Coast Line ...