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Arrival of the Orange Blossom Special, December 1938 in Plant City, Florida. It happened during the maiden run of the new streamlined train at the Jacksonville Seaboard Railroad Station that Ervin T. Rouse and Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise saw this train. Rouse and Wise wrote the Orange Blossom Special song as a fiddle tune. The tune was first ...
The Orange Blossom Cannonball. A scene from the Trains of the Wild West special excursion. The Orange Blossom Cannonball was a train service run by the TE&G using a wood-fired steam locomotive. The excursion was a 1-hour & 45-minute trip between Tavares and Mount Dora.
Orange Blossom Special may refer to: Orange Blossom Special (train) , a passenger train operated by the Seaboard Air Line Railway from 1925 to 1953 "Orange Blossom Special" (song) , a 1938 song written by Ervin T. Rouse
Orange Express may refer to: the Ferrocarril de Sóller, an interurban railway on the Spanish island of Mallorca; the Orange Blossom Express, a proposed commuter rail system in the US state of Florida; the 1980-1981 side of the Oregon State University men's basketball team; a track on the album Eyes of Innocence by the Miami Sound Machine
Among other Seaboard trains, the station was served by the Orange Blossom Special until 1953, and the Silver Meteor beginning in 1939. Amtrak maintained Silver Meteor service to the station when it took over intercity passenger train service in 1971. The station was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 19, 1973. Tri-Rail ...
In April 2019, the Florida Central Railroad closed the line from Tavares to Mount Dora to passenger rail traffic and began using it for train car storage. [5] In 2022, during a council meeting, SunRail officials proposed a new line called the Orange Blossom Express SunRail Line, which would be funded by a proposed 1 cent sales tax increase in ...
This is a route-map template for the Orange Blossom Special, a United States railway.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
"Orange Blossom Special" is a fiddle tune about the luxury passenger train of the same name. The song was written by Ervin T. Rouse (1917–1981) in 1938 and was first recorded by Rouse and his brother Gordon in 1939.