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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 ...
Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway (Seaboard Air Line Railroad) Cady Way Trail: 6.5 miles (10.5 km) Orange County: East Florida and Atlantic Railroad (Seaboard Air Line Railroad) Cape Haze Pioneer Trail: 11.5 miles (18.5 km) Charlotte County: Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway (Seaboard Air Line Railroad) Chain of Lakes Trail: 4.7 miles ...
The Seaboard Air Line Railroad began serving West Palm Beach in January 1925. Seaboard's line to West Palm Beach, which originated at their main line in Coleman (just south of Wildwood), was built by the Florida Western and Northern Railroad, another Seaboard Air Line subsidiary. The Seaboard-All Florida Railway was organized to extend this ...
The Seaboard Air Line would also be the first railroad to install a talking hot box detector (the predecessor to the modern defect detector). This first talking hot box detector was installed on the main line in Riceboro, Georgia. [6] In 1967, the Seaboard Air Line merged with their long-time rival, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL).
The depot was constructed in 1927, when the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (via its Seaboard-All Florida Railway subsidiary) constructed its line to Naples. It was designed in the same Mediterranean Revival style the Seaboard Air Line used with its stations in Delray Beach, Deerfield Beach, Hialeah, and Homestead on the southeast coast of Florida (which were built around the same time), and is ...
The Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway is a historic railroad line that at its greatest extent serviced Gasparilla Island in Charlotte Harbor and a major shipping port that once operated there. The railroad's principal purpose was to transport phosphate mined along the Peace River and in the Bone Valley region of Central Florida to the port ...
The Venice Seaboard Air Line Railway Station (also known as the Venice Depot) is a historic former Seaboard Air Line Railroad depot located at 303 East Venice Avenue in Venice, Florida. It is the southern trailhead of the Legacy Trail , which runs along the railroad's former right of way.
The station was constructed in 1926 by the Tampa and Gulf Coast Railroad, the second railway line to enter St. Petersburg and an affiliate of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL). The office building and warehouse are built of brick in masonry vernacular style and are the city's only substantially unaltered example of railroad architecture. [3]