Lake City Railway Station
| Lake City Railway Station | |
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 Derelict Lake City Train Station
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| Data | |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
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| State | Florida |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 30 ° 11 ′ 49 ″ N , 82 ° 39 ′ 3 ″ W |
| List of train stations in the United States | |
The Lake City railway station was a railway station in the long-distance traffic and was last of Amtrak operated. He was located in Lake City , Columbia County , Florida .
history
The railroad age began in Lake City in 1860 when the Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central Railroad completed a railway line from here to Jacksonville . In 1861 the Pensacola and Georgia Railroad closed the gap to Tallahassee and in 1883 the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad reached Pensacola . From 1885 onwards, the city developed into an important railway junction with the construction of the Macon ( Georgia ) to Palatka railway via Lake City by the Georgia Southern & Florida Railroad .
The route of the Amtrak-operated Sunset Limited long-distance passenger train , which was introduced in 1971 and initially ran from Los Angeles to New Orleans , was extended in 1993 via Lake City 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 .