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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
Postcard illustrating the allure of streamliner travel to Florida, along with the "citrus" paint scheme used on SAL's EMD diesel locomotives from 1939 to 1954.. The Seaboard Air Line Railroad (reporting mark SAL), known colloquially as the Seaboard Railroad during its time, was an American railroad that existed from April 14, 1900, until July 1, 1967, when it merged with the Atlantic Coast ...
The Orange Blossom Express is a proposed 36-mile (58 km) commuter rail system in the Central Florida area. It would connect Eustis , Tavares , Mount Dora , Apopka , and downtown Orlando . In Orlando, connections would be available to both Amtrak and SunRail trains.
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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
"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.