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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
Brightline (reporting mark BLFX) is an intercity rail route in the United States that runs between Miami and Orlando, Florida. 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.
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.
The only other passenger train service that connects South Florida to other parts of the state is the federally run Amtrak. ... The trains travel on tracks east of the separate Tri-Rail tracks, ...
It will take just over 3.5 hours to travel between Miami and Orlando on Brightline's high-speed trains.
The main route of the Florida Central Railroad from Tavares to Orlando was originally built by the Tavares, Orlando and Atlantic Railroad.It was incorporated in 1883, and built as an extension of the Leesburg and Indian River Railroad, which branched off the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad in Wildwood and ran through Leesburg to Tavares.
Once under the ownership of the Seaboard Air Line, the Florida Railroad between Baldwin and Waldo would become part of the company's main line.By 1925, track from Baldwin to Callahan was the Seaboard's Gross Subdivision, and the remaining track to Fernandina Beach was the Fernandina Subdivision.
The track connecting the Florida Northern main track with the CSX track and the industrial spur from Ocala west was originally part of the Silver Springs, Ocala and Gulf Railroad, which was built in 1887 and historically extended west to Dunnellon and Homosassa. The Silver Springs, Ocala and Gulf Railroad also became part of the Plant System. [1]