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The line was abandoned by 1896 after the completion of the parallel Florida East Coast Railway. The Orange Ridge, DeLand and Atlantic Railroad Company was a 3-foot gauge 6-mile (9.7 km) line built in 1885, connecting DeLand with DeLand Landing on the St. Johns River.
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.
The Atlantic Coast Line (ACL) expressed interest in the J&SW, and bought the railroad outright as soon as the Florida Railroad Commission approved the purchase on July 28, 1904. [8] The daily train continued to use the Catherine Street station for several months before being switched over to the Jacksonville Union Terminal on West Bay Street.
The high-speed rail service, which launched its South Florida-to-Orlando route Sept. 22, will run many more trains to Central Florida and back.
In 1853 the Florida Legislature chartered the Florida Railroad to build a 5 ft (1,524 mm) [2] gauge rail line from Fernandina (near the mouth of the St. Mary's River) to Tampa, Florida, with a branch to Cedar Key. The president and chief stockholder of the Florida Railroad was U.S. Senator David Levy Yulee. Yulee decided to complete the line to ...
It will take just over 3.5 hours to travel between Miami and Orlando on Brightline's high-speed trains.
This junction would become known as Vitis Junction. The Coast Line would designate the full line as the Vitis–Tampa Line (RF Line) and it gave the Atlantic Coast Line an additional route into Tampa from northern Florida. The extension crossed the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's main line at Zephyrhills. [2]
Metrorail Orange Line, Bus routes 7A, 37, 42, 57, 150 Miami Beach Airport Express, 110 Route J, 238 East-West Connection, 297 27th Ave Orange MAX, 338 Weekend Express.