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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 ...
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 Seaboard Air Line organized a subsidiary United States & West Indies Railroad and Steamship Company in 1901 to oversee construction of the line. [1] In 1901, construction commenced with the line branching off the Seaboard main line near Turkey Creek. It proceeded south through Durant, Willow, and Palmetto.
CSX Transportation owns and operates a vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River.In addition to the major systems which merged to form CSX – the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad – it also owns major lines in the Northeastern United ...
Map of CSX's "A" and "S" lines, inherited from predecessors ACL and SAL, respectively. The Seaboard main line from Richmond to Tampa, heart of its 2600-mile system in 1900, (today mostly CSX's "S" Line), had been built by the following companies:
The line was often used to transport mail, lumber, grain and other commodities. [2] Opened on May 3, 1915, the nearly fifty mile line began at the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's line through Bradenton just south of the Manatee River, and ran southeast closely following the current route of State Road 70 via Myakka City to Arcadia. [3]
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 ...
Seaboard Air Line Railway: Florida Western Railroad: SAL: 1881 1882 Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad: Florida Western and Northern Railroad: SAL: 1924 1945 Seaboard Air Line Railroad: Fort Myers Southern Railroad: FMS ACL: 1917 1987 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad: Fort White and Southern Railway: 1896 Fort Wilderness Railroad: FWRR 1974 1980 ...