Greetings, all: Pleased to attach the cover of the new book. 128 pages with 211 Florida railroad postcards. Chapter titled are ACL/FEC/SAL--SCL/L & N--SL-SF--SR/the Short Lines/Logging, Lumber, Indust

From Progressive Railroading Magazine.FRA to award grant for Gulf Coast passenger-rail service 23 Shares Share Tweet Share Email Share Amtrak service to the Gulf Coast has not been restored since Hurr

Thank you, Jim. We all did. I will miss our get togethers.

Gentlemen and ladies: It is with no small amount of sadness that I inform you of the passing of one of our long time member, friends and supporters, Noel Weaver. Noel died this past Monday at Holy Cro

Dear friends and fellow historians and ferroequineologists: SATURDAY, May 11th will be a big day for all of us! Our friends at the famous Virginia Key Beach Park (which was formerly Miami’s segregated

Does anyone on the list have any information on the Alabama and Western Florida Railroad? It was located in and around Chipley, FL. Regards, Tom Holley

All: Here it are and here it be, the press release for the Jacksonville railroadiana and model train show, direct from our great and good friends at Golden Spike. Myrna and I will, of course, be at ou

I am sad to report the passing of Russell Tedder. I have known Russell for 25 years, we were first brought together by the late John B Allen as he knew both of us were researching railroad in Florida

From the Lakeland Ledger: "Nucor Corp. of Charlotte, North Carolina, officially announced it would build a $240 million steel mill Monday on a 400-acre site on U.S. 27 just south of Frostproof near th

Spent most of this week trying to catch Q604 on every single day starting on Monday, to see what his average departure time was and what his power/consist looked like going through the week. Here's wh

All: Just off phone with our friend, Jerry Groothouse, shortly ago. The people who own the property on which 253 and the Sebastian depot sits have sold it (the property) and have given whoever it is t

Taplines has been updated - Martel Lumber Company and the Ocala Southwestern Railroad The direct link is here: Martel Lumber Co. - Ocala & Southwestern RR Martel Lumber Co. - Ocala & Southwestern RR -

Cannot tell you—which I am doing—how much I (and, I am certain, all of us) appreciate your great work, Don. Also, want to let those on these lists know that we will be speaking at the BEACHES AREA HIS

While most peoples weekends are on Saturday & Sunday, my weekends lately have fallen on Wednesday & Thursday. It was a busy weekend for me, I wrote and edited the Railway & Locomotive Historical Socie

…..was Labor Day, a Monday, and on that day the horrific 1935 Labor Day storm devastated the Florida Keys, destroyed forty miles of the Key West Extension, and ended operations on the greatest (railro

One last elementary-level question concerning ACL operations. The railroad seems to have avoided the use of Manual Block entirely. There is no mention of MBS in the 1949 timetable, that I could see. I

List: I have a few questions for the experts. I recently gained access to a ACL Southern Division Employee Timetable (#3) dated December 1949. It's available here... http://www.multimodalways.org/arch

I did some research on USGS, and found out about how the ACL bought the ex-SAL line to downtown Naples in 1944, and began operating a mixed train with a pullman down from Fort Myers a few times a week

The Tpa to Venice passenger train was operated by one of the doodlebugs. I think that freight was operated with ALCo S type road switchers but others may have more info.

Can anyone shed some light on the types of locomotives used by the Seaboard Air Line in the 1960's on the Venice turn? Any other history is most welcome as well! I currently have track charts of the b