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OpenRailwayMap contains data for railway line positions, as well as the following information about them: track type (i.e. bridge, tunnel, regular line); track line type and current use (i.e. main, branch, yard; construction, disused, abandoned); max rail speeds; train protection; track electrification and track voltage if applicable; and track gauge.
Florida Railway and Navigation Company; Florida Central and Western Railroad; Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad; Florida Central Railroad (1868–1882) Florida Central Railroad (1907–1914) Florida Coast and Gulf Railway; Florida, Georgia and Western Railway; Florida Midland Railway (defunct) Florida Railroad; Florida Southern Railway ...
In 2010, then-Florida governor Charlie Crist approved the purchase of a 9.33-mile corridor, known as the Trenton–Newberry Rail Trail. This will extend the 31.7-mile NCST managed by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. [4] Nearby land and water resources exist in the vicinity of the Nature Coast State Trail. [6] Suwannee River
Tri-Rail train on the former Seaboard-All Florida Railway in 2011. Tri-Rail service began on the South Florida Rail Corridor in January 1989. While initially intended to be temporary, it eventually became a permanent service. CSX continued to maintain and provide dispatching for the line up until 2015, when FDOT took over those responsibilities.
Florida West Shore Railway (Seaboard Air Line Railroad) Ludlam Trail: 5.6 miles (9.0 km) Miami-Dade County, Florida East Coast Railway-- Little River Branch Monticello Bike Trail: 3.1 miles (5.0 km) Jefferson County: Perry Cutoff (Atlantic Coast Line Railroad) [6] Nature Coast State Trail: 31.7 miles (51.0 km) Dixie, Gilchrist, and Levy Counties
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 ...
General James A. Van Fleet State Trail is a rail trail in Florida, named after General James A. Van Fleet, who was a distinguished combat commander in both World Wars and the Korean War. [ 1 ] It is protected as a Florida State Park and occupies a 29.2-mile (47.0 km) abandoned portion of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad 's Miami Subdivision ...
Fanlew began as a railway distribution center of the Florida Central Railroad and later the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. The community served the sawmills and turpentine stills once in the area, with supplies moving in and timber and naval stores moving out. "Fanlew" is a combination of the names of John Lewis Philips, the founder of the ...