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The museum was founded in 1981 as the Florida Gulf Coast Railroad Museum, and has been operating weekend excursions out of Parrish since 1992. The museum is also active in the ghost town of Willow, where it has maintenance facilities. At Willow, there is a railroad spur that leads east off of the mainline to a Florida Power & Light Company plant.
The Florida Southern Railroad was part the Plant railroad system. Henry Plant took his railroad to Tampa and beyond. He aided the development of Tampa as a major port. In 1911 the Tampa Northern Railroad built an additional line north from Tampa to Brooksville. This gave Hernando County two daily passenger and freight schedules.
South Florida Railway Museum This page was last edited on 11 October 2023, at 16:17 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
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 ...
The Henry B. Plant Museum (Plant Museum) is located in the south wing of Plant Hall on the University of Tampa's campus. It is located at 401 West Kennedy Boulevard in Tampa, Florida . Plant Hall was originally built by Henry B. Plant as the Tampa Bay Hotel ; a 511-room resort-style hotel that opened on February 5, 1891, near the terminus of ...
South Florida Museum: Bradenton: Manatee Southwest Natural history Natural and cultural history of Florida's gulf coast, includes the Bishop Planetarium and Parker Manatee Aquarium South Florida Railway Museum: Deerfield Beach: Broward Southeast Railroad Includes model train layouts, railroad artifacts South Florida Science Center and Aquarium
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway: East Florida Railway: ACL: 1880 1884 Savannah, Florida and Western Railway: East Florida and Atlantic Railroad: SAL: 1891 1893 Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad: East and West Coast Railway: E&WC SAL: 1913 1945 Seaboard Air Line Railroad: Fellsmere Railroad: 1911 1924 Trans-Florida Central Railroad
The Serengeti Express, formerly known as the Trans Veldt Railway, is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge heritage railroad and amusement park attraction located within the Busch Gardens Tampa Bay amusement park in Tampa, Florida.