Crestview Railway Station
| Crestview Railway Station | |
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 Derelict Crestview Railway Station
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| Data | |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| location | |
| State | Florida |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 30 ° 45 '28 " N , 86 ° 34' 9" W |
| Height ( SO ) | 59 m |
| List of train stations in the United States | |
The Crestview Station was a train station in long-distance traffic and was designed by Amtrak operated. He was in Crestview , Okaloosa County , Florida .
history
Crestview is on a railway line built in 1883 by the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad .
The route of the long-distance train Sunset Limited operated by Amtrak , which was introduced in 1971 and initially ran from Los Angeles to New Orleans , was extended in 1993 via Crestview 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 .
