Tallahassee Railway Station
| Tallahassee Railway Station | |
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 Abandoned Tallahassee Railway Station
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| Platform tracks | 1 |
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| State | Florida |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 30 ° 26 ′ 1 ″ N , 84 ° 17 ′ 25 ″ W |
| List of train stations in the United States | |
The Tallahassee Station was a train station in long-distance traffic and was last of Amtrak operated. He was in Tallahassee , Leon County , Florida .
history
In 1837, the Tallahassee Railroad opened, making it one of the first railroad lines in what is now Florida. It connected the city on a 35 km long route with Saint Marks in the coastal region to the south . In 1983 the line was shut down by the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad and the route was sold to the Florida Department of Transportation . Today Tallahassee-St. Marks Historic Railroad State Trail .
The Pensacola and Georgia Railroad (P&G) built a first station building in 1858 and inaugurated the railway line to Lake City (east) and in 1863 to Quincy (west) three years later . After several acquisitions of P&G, the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad was created in 1893 , which in turn became part of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) in 1903 . The SAL merged in 1967 with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL) to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SCL), which in turn was to merge with the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N) to form the Seaboard System Railroad (SBD) in 1982 . The SBD itself was transformed into today's CSX Transportation four years later .
Another railway line was opened in 1893 between Tallahassee and Carrabelle ( Carrabelle, Tallahassee and Georgia Railroad ) and this was extended in 1902 by the Georgia, Florida & Alabama Railway via Bainbridge to Cuthbert in Georgia . The Tallahassee - Carrabelle section was closed in 1948.
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 Tallahassee 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 carried out by the CSX railway company.
On December 30, 1997, the station building was entered on the National Register of Historic Places .
literature
- Gregg Turner: A Short History of Florida Railroads. Arcadia Publishing , Mount Pleasant 2014, ISBN 978-1-439642-54-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Gregg Turner: A Short History of Florida Railroads. Arcadia Publishing , Mount Pleasant 2014, ISBN 978-1-439642-54-2
- ^ The story of the Georgia Florida & Alabama RR. Retrieved August 28, 2015 .
- ^ Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad Company Freight Depot on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 6, 2017.