Waldo station
| Waldo station | |
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 Abandoned Waldo station
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| Data | |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| location | |
| State | Florida |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 29 ° 47 '26 " N , 82 ° 10' 0" W |
| List of train stations in the United States | |
The Waldo Station was a train station in long-distance traffic and was last of Amtrak operated. He was in Waldo , Alachua County , Florida .
history
The place received its first railway connection in 1859 through the Florida Railroad between Fernandina and Gainesville . In 1881 the subsidiary Peninsular Railroad opened a branch from Waldo to Ocala .
In 1947 the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) introduced the Silver Star on the line from New York via Waldo to Saint Petersburg . In 1963, the current station building was built by SAL. The station and operations were taken over by Amtrak in 1971 . From 1994 to 1995 and from 1996 to 2004 the Silver Star was replaced by the Palmetto passenger train , after which passenger traffic via Waldo was discontinued. Today the section from Jacksonville via Waldo to Lakeland is served by Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach buses.
literature
- Gregg Turner: A Short History of Florida Railroads. Arcadia Publishing , Mount Pleasant 2014, ISBN 978-1-439642-54-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Waldo, FL (WDO). (No longer available online.) Amtrak.com, archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; accessed on December 15, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
