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The Southwest Florida Museum of History (SWFLM) is a history museum in Fort Myers, Florida. [1] The museum is in historic downtown Ft. Myers, in a former Atlantic Coast Line Railroad depot at 2031 Jackson Street (one block south of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard). It is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm.
Fort Myers was seeking railroad service at the time and had already been established as a city unlike Punta Gorda. After Plant's death in 1899, his heirs would sell his entire system of railroads to the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL) in 1902, and serving Fort Myers quickly became a top priority for ACL president Henry Walters.
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The railroad departs from the Railroad Museum of South Florida's Train Village in the center of the park. Besides the railway and the museum itself, the Train Village area also includes a children's playground and a full size historic locomotive and caboose on display. The miniature railway has carried over 300,000 passengers since it opened in ...
A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related ... Fort Myers: Florida: West Florida Railroad Museum: Milton: Florida: Georgia ...
Fort Myers was seeking railroad service at the time and had already been established as a city unlike Punta Gorda. After Plant's death in 1899, his heirs would sell his entire system of railroads to the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL) in 1902 and serving Fort Myers quickly became a top priority for ACL president Henry Walters.
Postcard illustrating the allure of streamliner travel to Florida, along with the "citrus" paint scheme used on SAL's EMD diesel locomotives from 1939 to 1954.. The Seaboard Air Line Railroad (reporting mark SAL), known colloquially as the Seaboard Railroad during its time, was an American railroad that existed from April 14, 1900, until July 1, 1967, when it merged with the Atlantic Coast ...
Seaboard Air Line Railroad: Fort Myers Southern Railroad: FMS ACL: 1917 1987 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad: Fort White and Southern Railway: 1896 Fort Wilderness Railroad: FWRR 1974 1980 Gainesville and Gulf Railway: SAL: 1895 1907 Tampa and Jacksonville Railway: Gainesville, Ocala and Charlotte Harbor Railroad: ACL: 1876 1881 Florida Southern ...