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The Florida Gulf and Atlantic Railroad (reporting mark FGA) is a shortline railroad owned and operated by RailUSA in the Florida Panhandle.The line consists of 430 miles (692 km) of track: a main line from Baldwin, Florida (just west of Jacksonville), through Tallahassee to Pensacola, as well as a branch from Tallahassee north to Attapulgus, Georgia.
TAMPA AND GULF COAST RAILWAY—PREDECESSOR OF THE TAMPA & GULF COAST RAILROAD COMPANY INTRODUCTORY. The Tampa and Gulf Coast Railway was a corporation of the State of Florida. The company owned and operated on date of sale, May 19, 1913, about 29 miles of single-track, standard-gage steam railroad, all in Florida.
The Tampa and Gulf Coast Railroad (T&G) was a railroad company in the Tampa Bay Area of Florida in the United States. It initially built and operated a line that ran from the Tampa Northern Railroad main line in Lutz (just north of Tampa ) west to Tarpon Springs and into Pasco County .
The Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway (reporting mark AGR) is a Class II railroad [1] owned by Genesee & Wyoming. It operates 292 miles (470 km) of track [ 2 ] from the Pensacola, Florida export terminals, west of downtown, north to Columbus, Mississippi , with trackage rights along BNSF Railway to Amory, Mississippi .
Both the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Air Line networks merged on July 1, 1967, to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. [3] Following the merger, the SAL track was abandoned south of Clearwater, replaced by a new crossover built in North Clearwater at milepost SY873.0 to permit use of the former ACL line south to St. Petersburg. [ 4 ]
The Florida West Coast Railroad (reporting mark FWCR) was a 13-mile (21-kilometre) railroad owned by CSF Acquisition, Inc., which acquired it from CSX on December 13, 1987 as its first acquisition. Archived 2004-10-18 at the Wayback Machine It ran west from a CSX line at Newberry to Trenton .
The Arcadia, Gulf Coast and Lakeland Railroad Company was owned by George B. Morton, Anthony Peters and Woodward Emery. It was incorporated under Florida state law chapter FOO [clarification needed], approved May 21, 1891, "for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating a railroad from a point on or near Gasparilla Island, in the county of Lee, via the town of Arcadia, in the ...
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]