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CSX pulling the Tropicana Juice Train across Manatee River near Bradenton Riverwalk in 2018. Tropicana Products was founded in 1947 in Bradenton, Florida by Anthony T. Rossi, an Italian immigrant, growing from 50 employees to over 3,000 in 2003.
On June 7, 1970, beginning on Seaboard Coast Line railroad, a mile-long Tropicana Juice Train began carrying one million gallons of juice with one weekly round-trip from Bradenton, Florida to Kearny, New Jersey, in the New York City area. The trip spanned 1,250 miles (2,010 km) one way, and the 60 car train was the equivalent of 250 trucks. [16]
CSX pulling the Tropicana Juice Train across the Manatee River Bridge in Bradenton, Florida, in 2018. Tropicana purchased one million dollars worth of refrigerated trucks to deliver Pure Premium in the mid to late fifties. [5] Soon, 2,000 dairies delivered Pure Premium orange juice to the doorsteps of consumers each morning. [5]
Additionally, the FEC currently transports Tropicana Products "Juice Train" cars to and from one of the company's processing facilities located on the "K" Line. The Juice Train concept was developed by Tropicana founder Anthony T. Rossi in conjunction with Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (a CSX predecessor) beginning in 1970.
CSX train O823 pulling Tropicana Juice cars across the Manatee River Bridge in Bradenton in 2018. The Palmetto Subdivision is a CSX Transportation rail line in the Tampa Bay region of Florida . It runs from just south of Tampa south to Bradenton .
Former Tropicana refrigerator car. In 1970, Tropicana orange juice was shipped in bulk via insulated boxcars in one weekly round-trip from Bradenton, Florida, to Kearny, New Jersey. By the following year, the company was operating two 60-car unit trains a week, each carrying around 1,000,000 US gallons (3,800,000 L; 830,000 imp gal) of juice.
It also continues to serve the Tropicana Juice Plant in Bradenton, with Tropicana's Juice Train continuing to be the most consistent service on the line today. The main Tampa Southern Railroad tracks end near the Tropicana Plant in Bradenton.
A long CSX coal train of empty hoppers crosses the New River as seen from Hawks Nest State Park. CSX operated the Juice Train which consisted of Tropicana cars that carried fresh orange juice between Bradenton, Florida, and the Greenville section of Jersey City, New Jersey. The northbound train was originally designated on CSX as K650 during ...