Chipley Railway Station
| Chipley Railway Station | |
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 Former Chipley station building
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| Data | |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| location | |
| State | Florida |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 30 ° 46 '51 " N , 85 ° 32' 15" W |
| List of train stations in the United States | |
The Chipley station was a railway station in the long-distance traffic and was last of Amtrak operated. It was located in Chipley , Washington County , Florida .
history
Chipley is on a railway line built in 1883 by the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad .
The route of the Amtrak-operated long-distance train Sunset Limited , which was introduced in 1971 and initially ran from Los Angeles to New Orleans , was extended in 1993 via Chipley to Jacksonville (later to Miami and Orlando ). However, after the effects of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, the line was shortened back to the original Los Angeles - New Orleans route. Since then, the only rail transport has consisted of goods transports, which are carried out by the railway company CSX Transportation .
literature
- Gregg Turner: A Short History of Florida Railroads. Arcadia Publishing , Mount Pleasant 2014, ISBN 978-1-439642-54-2 .
