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Seminole Gulf Railway, who operates the rail line today, uses the platform every Christmas season for its Christmas Rail-Boat evening excursions. Passengers arrive from Fort Myers and transfer to a bus for a Christmas light boat tour through Punta Gorda Isles. They then reboard for the return trip to Fort Myers. [4]
The original Florida Southern route north of Arcadia (which ran past the historic Arcadia passenger depot) was removed in 1984. [16] Surveying work to determine the route for the Florida Southern Railway to Punta Gorda was done by Punta Gorda civil engineer Albert W. Gilchrist, who would later serve as Florida's 20th governor. The line's first ...
The Tavares, Eustis & Gulf Railroad (TE&G), advertised as the Orange Blossom Cannonball, was a tourist railroad company operating excursion trains on historic track owned by the Florida Central Railroad, [1] from October 2011 to late March 2017. It had stops in three cities in the northern portion of Central Florida.
Ashland Express Christmas Train will be running and there will be a photographer on-site to capture magical moments and pictures of children with Santa.
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.
They were constructed in a custom rail-car building facility in Medley, Florida. The cars are semi-permanently attached in married pairs, and joined up to form 4-car trains, which is the normal train length, although 6-car trains are also possible. Included amenities are free Wi-Fi, interior bicycle racks, improved announcement systems, digital ...
What Florida radio stations are playing Christmas music? ... Smokey's Holiday Soul Train - Smokey Robinson plays soulful holiday faves from the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s.
CSX train operating on the former Tampa and Gulf Coast Railroad though Safety Harbor in 1992. Passenger service on the Indian Rocks Beach spur declined in the 1920s, and by 1928, the bridge carrying the branch to Indian Rocks Beach was removed. The rest of the spur from the main line to the ghost town of Anona would remain until the early 1940s.