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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.
Boca Grande Pass, a natural deepwater inlet at the south end of Gasparilla Island, was seen as the perfect place for a deepwater port to simplify the process of shipping phosphate. The Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway was first chartered in 1897 as the Alafia, Manatee, and Gulf Coast Railroad. Peter B. Bradley, who created the American ...
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.
Fort Myers also experienced major growth after the arrival of the railroad and would remain the southernmost point of the entire Atlantic Coast Line Railroad system until the Florida land boom of the 1920s. Seminole Gulf track though Downtown Bonita Springs. The platform is all that remains of the Atlantic Coast Line's passenger depot
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 ...
Green Cove and Midland Railway: Gulf Coast Railway: 1915 1921 N/A Gulf, Florida and Alabama Railway (Deep Water Route) DWR SLSF: 1911 1922 Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and Pensacola Railway: Gulf Ports Terminal Railway: SLSF: 1916 1927 Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and Pensacola Railroad: Halifax and Indian River Railway: FEC: 1891 1892 Florida Coast ...
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad eventually evolved into CSX in 1986, with this line being known as the West Coast Subdivision. The track from Red Level Junction to Crystal River was removed by 1982 and track from Dunnellon south to Inverness and Owensboro was removed in 1987, which became the Withlacoochee State Trail. [3] [4] The Florida ...
Tampa and Gulf Coast Railroad (Seaboard Air Line Railroad) from Clearwater to St. Petersburg; Punta Gorda Linear Park: 1 mile (1.6 km) Charlotte County: Florida Southern Railway (Atlantic Coast Line Railroad) Seminole-Wekiva Trail: 3.3 miles (5.3 km) Seminole County: Orange Belt Railway (Atlantic Coast Line Railroad) South Dade Rail Trail