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- The depot was originally built in 1881 to serve as a freight depot, adjacent to an existing passenger depot that had been constructed to serve the Florida Railroad in 1856.
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History. Original Charter. Micanopy station. The Florida Southern Railway was first chartered as the Gainesville, Ocala, and Charlotte Harbor Railroad in 1879, with a planned route from Lake City to Charlotte Harbor with a branch to Palatka to connect with steamboats on the St. Johns River.
- 1881–1903
- originally 3 ft (914 mm) gauge
Jul 10, 2023 · The $2.5 million terminal quietly opened its doors one minute after midnight on November 17, 1919. During its heyday, it was the largest passenger railroad station in the South and served as an official gateway to worldwide travelers entering Florida, handling as many as twenty thousand passengers and 200 trains each day.
Mar 10, 2021 · Share this story! On Jan. 22, 1912, when Ruby Whitlock was eight years old, she watched the arrival of the first train that ever traveled down the Florida Keys Over-Sea Railroad tracks from mainland Florida to Key West. The railroad stretched over 100 miles out into open water in a fantastic ribbon of bridges and track.
In September 1895, Flagler's system was incorporated as the Florida East Coast Railway Company and by 1896, it reached Biscayne Bay, the largest and most accessible harbor on Florida's east coast. To further develop the area surrounding the Fort Dallas railroad station, Flagler dredged a channel, built streets, instituted the first water and ...
Sep 22, 2023 · Officials from the Federal Railroad Administration, the Florida Department of Transportation, Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, Central Florida Expressway Authority and more, were present to greet the first train. Brightline launched operations in South Florida in 2018, connecting Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.
The intrusion of Disston's huge dredges in the Caloosahatchee Valley was a warning to the cattlemen that the days of the homesteaders were beginning. In the winter of 1884-85 hundreds of Northern visitors arrived in the region including Thomas Alva Edison who decided to bring a prefab winter complete, complete with South Florida's first swimming pool, to Fort Myers.
Despite the hardships, the final link of the Florida East Coast Railway to Trumbo Point in Key West was completed in 1912. The first train, a construction engineers' train, arrived in Key West on January 21, 1912.
