Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Part of the route runs on track owned and shared by the Florida East Coast Railway. Brightline is the only privately owned and operated intercity passenger railroad in the United States. Its development started in March 2012 as All Aboard Florida by Florida East Coast Industries, a Floridian real estate developer owned by Fortress Investment Group.
This is a route-map template for rail transport in Florida, a United States transportation network.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The Florida East Coast Railway depot in Sebastian.The structure was built in 1893. Beginning in 1892, when landowners south of Daytona petitioned him to extend the railroad 80 miles (130 km) south, Flagler began laying new railroad tracks; no longer did he follow his traditional practice of purchasing existing railroads and merging them into his growing rail system.
Officials with Florida's high speed passenger train service said Thursday that they plan to add a stop somewhere along the newly-opened extension between South Florida and Orlando. Brightline ...
The Florida High-Speed Corridor is a canceled high-speed rail project in the U.S. state of Florida. Initial service would have run between the cities of Tampa and Orlando, with plans to then extend service to South Florida, terminating in Miami. Trains with a top speed of 168 mph (270 km/h) to 186 mph (300 km/h) would run on dedicated rail ...
Alabama and Florida Railroad (1986–1992) AFLR 1986 1992 Alabama and Florida Railway: Alabama and Florida Railway: AF 1992 2011 Ceased operations in 2011 Alabama and Western Florida Railroad: 1926 1939 Alabama, Florida and Gulf Railroad: 1917 1936 Alabama and Florida Railroad (1936–1941) Alabama, Florida and Southern Railroad 1910 1917
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 line on which Tri-Rail operates was built by the Seaboard-All Florida Railway (a subsidiary of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad) for intercity passenger rail service in the early 1920s. The line was inaugurated on January 7, 1927. Intercity rail service by Seaboard operated the Orange Blossom Special service from New York City until 1953.