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The Gold Coast Railroad Museum promotes historical trains and railroads. It houses over 30 historic trains including historic railroad cars like the Presidential Pullman "Ferdinand Magellan” and engines like the Florida East Coast "153.” The museum strives to teach railroad history using artifacts, movies, and railroading materials.
The company was chartered on April 7, 1903. Construction began on March 21, 1905, and trains began running north from Apalachicola in 1907. The extension to Port St. Joe was completed on May 10, 1910. The company operated in receivership on three separate occasions: July 1907 to October 1908, May 1914 to February 1916 and May 1932 to December 1936.
Eventually, the line became the main route for the Atlantic Coast Line's passenger trains running from Jacksonville to St. Petersburg. By 1949, the West Coast Champion and a local passenger train were running the line daily between Jacksonville and Burnett's Lake, where they turned south to St. Petersburg. At the same time, mixed train service ...
Shocking video showed the moment a speeding passenger train slammed into a Florida fire truck that drove past a warning gate onto the tracks, injuring 15 people, including three smoke eaters.
Brooksville Businessmen Cook- Utility Car at the Brooksville 1885 Train Depot Train Depot Office Train Depot Freight Room 1885 Train Depot Dock area with 1925 American La France Fire Truck. In the 1880s America experienced a vast expanse of railroads. 75,000 miles of track were built.
The Boca Express Train Museum, operated by the Boca Raton Historical Society, is housed in a restored 1930 Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) train station in Boca Raton, Florida. designed by Chester G. Henninger, built for Clarence H. Geist. It is located at 747 South Dixie Highway, off U.S. 1 (Federal Highway).
CSX train operating on the former Tampa and Gulf Coast Railroad though Safety Harbor in 1992. Passenger service on the Indian Rocks Beach spur declined in the 1920s, and by 1928, the bridge carrying the branch to Indian Rocks Beach was removed. The rest of the spur from the main line to the ghost town of Anona would remain until the early 1940s.
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