Pensacola train station
| Pensacola train station | |
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 Abandoned Pensacola train station
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
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| State | Florida |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 30 ° 25 '11 " N , 87 ° 11' 50" W |
| List of train stations in the United States | |
The Pensacola station was a railway station in the long-distance traffic and was last of Amtrak operated. He was in Pensacola , Escambia County , Florida .
history
As early as 1835, construction began on the Florida, Alabama & Georgia Railroad , which would connect the port of Pensacola with Montgomery in Alabama and enable the transport and shipping of cotton from Alabama. The company went bankrupt in the course of the economic crisis of 1837 and the project was initially unfinished. It was not until 1861 that the Alabama & Florida Railroad opened a first 71 km long connection from Pensacola north to Pollard in Alabama, where a connection to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N) was made.
The station itself was built in 1883 by the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad (P&A). When it opened, Pensacola was first served by passenger service, and a direct link via Chattahoochee to Jacksonville was established. In 1882 the Pensacola and Fort Barrancas Railroad , which had operated a branch from Pensacola to Fort Barrancas since 1870 , became part of the P&A. The line itself was closed. In 1891 the line to Jacksonville was taken over by L&N, which in 1949 introduced a long-distance train connection with the Gulf Wind from New Orleans via Pensacola to Jacksonville.
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 Pensacola 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 .