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The Plant City Union Depot is a historic train depot in Plant City, Florida, Florida, United States.It was built in 1909 and was crucial in the development of Plant City. The city was named after Henry Plant, who introduced railway lines to improve the transport system in Central and Western Florida.
CSX Train O709 approaching Plant City Interlocking on the Lakeland Subdivision. The Lakeland Subdivision is a CSX Transportation rail line in Florida. It runs along CSX's A Line from just west of Lakeland and heads west through Plant City to the community of Mango in Hillsborough County, just east of Tampa.
Ruskin: 5: Downtown Plant City Commercial District: Downtown Plant City Commercial District. June 8, 1993 ... North Plant City Residential District. May 27, 1993
From East Tampa, it runs south and roughly parallels U.S. Route 41 through Ruskin to Palmetto. South of Palmetto, it crosses the Manatee River on a bascule bridge and enters Bradenton . After passing through downtown Bradenton, the Palmetto Subdivision ends just south of Tropicana Yard in Oneco , where it connects with the Seminole Gulf Railway ...
Plant City: Plant City Union Depot: replaced original station in 1909 junction with Seaboard Air Line Railroad Main Line: A 867.8 Dover: Dover originally known as Cork [12] A 870.9 Seffner: Seffner A 873.5 Mango: Mango A 878.8 Tampa: Uceta: junction with Sarasota Line: A 879.6 Thonotosassa Junction junction with Vitis—Tampa Line: A 881.7 ...
The Plant City, Arcadia, and Gulf Railroad was first built as a logging railroad in 1898 by the Warnell Lumber & Veneer Company. [3] It connected to the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad in Plant City, which would become the main line of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad in 1900.
The greater Ruskin area's population reached 17,000 by 1975, many of whom were not farmers, but suburbanites. By 1982, Ruskin produced approximately 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) of tomatoes a year, and one of the world's largest tomato-packing houses operated in nearby Apollo Beach. However, flower farms, phosphate, real estate, and tropical fish ...
The first train from Tampa to Palmetto ran on December 5, 1918. [10] The railroad reached Bradenton and used it as its terminus, carrying through Pullman sleepers from connecting Atlantic Coast Line trains. [11] The tracks were completed to Sarasota by May 1924, and the first passenger train arrived in Sarasota in December of that year. [12]