Atlantic Coast Line

Atlantic Coast Line

Author: William E. Griffin

Publisher: TLC Publishing (VA)

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781883089627

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The steam and diesel operations of the line that was famous for New York-Miami passenger service and freight haulers. Trains, depots and memorabilia.


Atlantic Coast Line Passenger Service

Atlantic Coast Line Passenger Service

Author: Charles Lawrence Goolsby

Publisher: TLC Publishing (VA)

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781883089450

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The story of the Atlantic Coast Line's wonderful postwar passenger trains is told in a readable narrative supported by scores of company publicity photos that depict the trains inside and out. This book not only covers the great New York-to-Florida streamliners, but also the locals and workaday passenger trains that crisscrossed the ACL system. Also featured are car and locomotive rosters, diagrams and drawings, and other material useful to modelers in constructing and painting ACL passenger cars.


Seaboard Coast Line Family Lines Railroad 1967-1986

Seaboard Coast Line Family Lines Railroad 1967-1986

Author: William E Griffin Jr

Publisher: TLC Publishing

Published: 2005-05-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780976620105

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This 176-page book tells the complete story of the merger and operation of two of the Southern's great railroads: Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line, and their highly successful operation as Seaboard Coast Line. It carries the story down to the additional consolidation of Louisville & Nashville and Clinchfield Railroads into the system to form Seaboard System, just before its merger with Chessie System to become today's CSX Transportation. Passenger and freight operations and cars are covered in detail as well as all other aspects of the line's operation.


Railroad Depots of Central Florida

Railroad Depots of Central Florida

Author: Michael Mulligan

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738553900

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Railroads have served the northern counties of Central Florida since before the Civil War. Following the war, railroads expanded down the peninsula to bring transportation services to even more people and places throughout the region. By 1929, the railroad network in the state had reached its peak, with some communities being served by two or more railroad lines. Trains provided the means for growth and development, and the local depot was the focal point of every town throughout Florida's central region. Stretching across the middle section of the peninsula from coast to coast, the Central Florida area includes Levy, Gilchrist, Alachua, Putnam, and Volusia Counties to the north, while the counties of Sarasota, Desoto, Highland, Osceola, and Brevard define the southern boundary. Featuring depots of the Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line, Florida East Coast, and their predecessor railroads, the photographs used by the author were obtained from local historical groups, the Florida State Archives, and private collections.


Between Land and Sea

Between Land and Sea

Author: Christopher L. Pastore

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2014-10-13

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0674281411

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Christopher Pastore traces how Narragansett Bay’s ecology shaped the contours of European habitation, trade, and resource use, and how littoral settlers in turn, over two centuries, transformed a marshy fractal of water and earth into a clearly defined coastline, which proved less able to absorb the blows of human initiative and natural variation.


Florida Railroads in the 1920s

Florida Railroads in the 1920s

Author: Gregg Turner

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2006-02

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9780738542324

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Florida's railroads emerged in the 1830s amid Native American upheaval and territorial colonization. Many periods of development marked this fascinating heritage, but one era towers above the rest: the 1920s. It was then that Florida experienced a colossal land boom, one of the greatest migration and building stories in American history. People poured into the state as never before, real estate traded hands at breakneck speed, and the landscape added countless new homes, hotels, apartments, and commercial buildings. Florida's biggest railroads--the Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line, and Florida East Coast--were unprepared for the tidal wave of traffic. Thus, the "Big Three" had to rapidly expand and increase capacity. Dozens of projects unfolded at great cost, by one estimate over $100 million. When the building frenzy ended, the railway map of the state stood at its greatest extent--some 5,700 miles. Further, the frequency of railway service within and to the Sunshine State reached an unprecedented level, never again to be repeated.