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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.
The railroad's track was 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge while it was independent, but when it was taken over by the Plant System in the late 1890s, all track north of the 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge section of the Sanford and St. Petersburg Railroad (also taken over by the Plant System) was abandoned and the remaining trackage ...
A. Alabama and Florida Railroad (1853–1869) Alabama and Florida Railroad (1986–1992) Alabama, Florida and Gulf Railroad; Arcadia, Gulf Coast and Lakeland Railroad
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad's Perry Cutoff (which was part of the company's Thomasville—Dunnellon Line) was a historic rail line in northern Florida running from Monticello southeast to Perry. The line provided a shortcut through the Big Bend of Florida for rail traffic running between the Midwest and the Tampa Bay area by providing a ...
The Florida West Coast Railroad (reporting mark FWCR) was a 13-mile (21-kilometre) railroad owned by CSF Acquisition, Inc., which acquired it from CSX on December 13, 1987 as its first acquisition. Archived 2004-10-18 at the Wayback Machine It ran west from a CSX line at Newberry to Trenton .
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
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
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 ...