List of Florida railroads
This is a list of railroads operating in the U.S. state of Florida.
Current railroads[]
Common freight carriers[]
- Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway (AGR)
- AN Railway (AN)
- Bay Line Railroad (BAYL)
- CSX Transportation (CSXT)
- First Coast Railroad (FCRD)
- Florida Central Railroad (FCEN)
- Florida East Coast Railway (FEC)
- Florida Gulf & Atlantic Railroad (FGA)
- Florida Midland Railroad (FMID)
- Florida Northern Railroad (FNOR)
- Georgia and Florida Railway (GFRR)
- Jacksonville Port Terminal Railroad (JXPT)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) through subsidiary Georgia Southern and Florida Railway (GSF)
- Seminole Gulf Railway (SGLR)
- South Central Florida Express, Inc. (SCXF)
Private freight carriers[]
- CF Industries (CFIZ)
- (CNYX)
- The Mosaic Company (IMCX)
- Orlando Utilities Commission (OUCX)
- Perdue Farms (PFMX)
- (MAUP)
- (PPBD)
- Port of Panama City (PPC)
- (USCX)
Passenger carriers[]
- Amtrak (AMTK)
- Brightline
- Florida Railroad Museum (FGCX)
- Gold Coast Railroad Museum (GCOX)
- Jacksonville Skyway
- Miami Metromover and Miami Metrorail[nb 1]
- Orlando & Northwestern Railway (ONWX)
- Seminole Gulf Railway (SGLR)
- Serengeti Express (located in Busch Gardens Tampa)
- SunRail (SRCX)
- TECO Line Streetcar
- Tri-Rail (TRCX)
- Walt Disney World Monorail and Walt Disney World Railroad[nb 2]
Private carriers[]
- Clay Springs and Apopka Railroad
- Peace River Phosphate Company
- Union Cypress Company
Never built[]
Defunct railroads[]
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Name | Mark | System[nb 3] | From | To | Successor | Notes |
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Alabama and Florida Railroad (1853–1869) | L&N | 1853 | 1869 | Pensacola and Louisville Railroad | ||
Alabama and Florida Railroad (1898–1900) | L&N | 1898 | 1900 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | ||
Alabama and Florida Railroad (1936–1941) | 1936 | 1941 | Ceased operations in 1941 | |||
Alabama and Florida Railroad (1986–1992) | AFLR | 1986 | 1992 | Alabama and Florida Railway | ||
Alabama and Florida Railway | AF | 1992 | 2011 | Ceased operations in 2011 | ||
Alabama and Western Florida Railroad | 1926 | 1939 | ||||
Alabama, Florida and Gulf Railroad | 1917 | 1936 | Alabama and Florida Railroad (1936–1941) | |||
Alabama, Florida and Southern Railroad | 1910 | 1917 | Alabama, Florida and Gulf Railroad | |||
Alafia, Manatee, and Gulf Coast Railroad | SAL | 1897 | 1906 | Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway | ||
1919 | 1925 | N/A | [1] | |||
Apalachicola Northern Railroad | AN | 1903 | Later served by the AN Railway, the line is abandoned. | |||
Arcadia, Gulf Coast and Lakeland Railroad | 1891 | 1893 | Florida, Peninsular and Gulf Railroad | |||
FEC | 1892 | 1892 | Jacksonville and Atlantic Railroad | |||
Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay Railway | A&SA, ASAB | 1906 | 1993 | Bay Line Railroad | ||
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | ACL | ACL | 1902 | 1967 | Seaboard Coast Line Railroad | |
FEC | 1883 | 1899 | ||||
ACL/ FEC | 1905 | |||||
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad | A&G | ACL | 1866 | 1879 | Savannah, Florida and Western Railway | |
Atlantic, Gulf and West India Transit Company | SAL | 1872 | 1881 | |||
Atlantic, Suwannee River and Gulf Railroad | SAL | 1893 | 1893 | Atlantic, Suwannee River and Gulf Railway | ||
Atlantic, Suwannee River and Gulf Railway | SAL | 1893 | 1909 | Seaboard Air Line Railway | ||
Atlantic, Valdosta and Western Railway | SOU | 1897 | 1902 | Georgia Southern and Florida Railway, St. Johns River Terminal Company | ||
FEC | 1888 | 1896 | Florida East Coast Railway | |||
SAL | 1888 | 1891 | Carrabelle, Tallahassee and Georgia Railroad | |||
Birmingham, Columbus and St. Andrews Railroad | 1903 | 1926 | Alabama and Western Florida Railroad | |||
FEC | 1878 | 1887 | ||||
Brooksville and Inverness Railway | SAL | 1925 | 1946 | Seaboard Air Line Railroad | ||
Burlington Northern Inc. | BN | 1980 | 1981 | Burlington Northern Railroad | ||
Burlington Northern Railroad | BN | 1981 | 1996 | Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway | ||
Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway | BNSF | 1996 | 1997 | Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway | ||
Carrabelle, Tallahassee and Georgia Railroad | SAL | 1891 | 1906 | |||
Central of Georgia Railway | CG | CG | 1904 | 1939 | N/A | |
Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway | SAL | 1906 | 1946 | Seaboard Air Line Railroad | ||
ACL | 1881 | 1884 | Savannah, Florida and Western Railway | |||
DeLand and St. John's River Railroad | ACL | 1886 | 1890 | Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway | ||
East Florida Railway | ACL | 1880 | 1884 | Savannah, Florida and Western Railway | ||
East Florida and Atlantic Railroad | SAL | 1891 | 1893 | Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad | ||
East and West Coast Railway | E&WC | SAL | 1913 | 1945 | Seaboard Air Line Railroad | |
1911 | 1924 | |||||
Fernandina and Amelia Beach Railway | SAL | 1883 | 1894 | Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad | ||
SAL | 1880 | 1884 | Florida Railway and Navigation Company | |||
Florida Railroad | SAL | 1853 | 1872 | Atlantic, Gulf and West India Transit Company | ||
1905 | ||||||
Florida Railway and Navigation Company | SAL | 1884 | 1888 | Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad | ||
before 1914 | 1939 | N/A | [1] | |||
before 1911 | 1919 | [1] | ||||
Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central Railroad | SAL | 1851 | 1868 | Florida Central Railroad | ||
Florida Central Railroad | ACL | 1907 | 1914 | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | ||
Florida Central Railroad | SAL | 1868 | 1882 | Florida Central and Western Railroad | ||
SAL | 1916 | 1931 | N/A | |||
Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad | SAL | 1888 | 1903 | Seaboard Air Line Railway | ||
Florida Central and Western Railroad | SAL | 1882 | 1884 | Florida Railway and Navigation Company | ||
Florida Coast and Gulf Railway | FEC | 1892 | 1892 | Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Indian River Railway | ||
Florida, Georgia and Western Railway | SAL | 1891 | 1895 | |||
Florida Midland Railway | ACL | 1883 | 1896 | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | ||
Florida, Peninsular and Gulf Railroad | 1893 | |||||
Florida Southern Railroad | ACL | 1892 | 1903 | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | ||
Florida Southern Railway | ACL | 1881 | 1892 | Florida Southern Railroad | ||
SAL | 1881 | 1883 | Florida Transit and Peninsular Railroad | |||
Florida Transit and Peninsular Railroad | SAL | 1883 | 1884 | Florida Railway and Navigation Company | ||
Florida West Shore Railway | SAL | 1903 | 1909 | Seaboard Air Line Railway | ||
SAL | 1881 | 1882 | Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad | |||
Florida Western and Northern Railroad | SAL | 1924 | 1945 | Seaboard Air Line Railroad | ||
Fort Myers Southern Railroad | FMS | ACL | 1917 | 1987 | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | |
1896 | ||||||
Fort Wilderness Railroad | FWRR | 1974 | 1980 | |||
Gainesville and Gulf Railway | SAL | 1895 | 1907 | Tampa and Jacksonville Railway | ||
Gainesville, Ocala and Charlotte Harbor Railroad | ACL | 1876 | 1881 | Florida Southern Railway | ||
Gainesville, Rocky Point and Micanopy Railway | SAL | 1884 | 1895 | Gainesville and Gulf Railway | ||
Georgia and Florida RailNet | GFRR | 1999 | 2005 | Georgia and Florida Railway | ||
GFRR | 1995 | 1999 | Georgia and Florida RailNet | |||
Georgia and Florida Railroad | G&F | G&F | 1926 | 1951 | Valdosta Southern Railroad | |
G&F | G&F | 1906 | 1926 | Georgia and Florida Railroad | ||
Georgia, Florida and Alabama Railroad | GF&A | SAL | 1927 | 1974 | Seaboard Coast Line Railroad | |
GF&A | SAL | 1901 | 1928 | Georgia, Florida and Alabama Railroad | ||
Georgia Pine Railway | SAL | 1895 | 1901 | |||
Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad | SOU | 1889 | 1895 | Georgia Southern and Florida Railway | ||
1885 | 1892 | |||||
Green Cove Springs and Melrose Railroad | 1881 | 1885 | ||||
1915 | 1921 | N/A | ||||
DWR | SLSF | 1911 | 1922 | |||
SLSF | 1916 | 1927 | ||||
FEC | 1891 | 1892 | Florida Coast and Gulf Railway | |||
Inland Lakes Railway | 2005 | 2009 | ||||
Jacksonville and Atlantic Railroad | FEC | 1892 | 1892 | |||
FEC | 1893 | 1900 | Florida East Coast Railway | |||
SAL | 1886 | 1888 | Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad | |||
FEC | 1888 | 1892 | Florida Coast and Gulf Railway | |||
Jacksonville, Gainesville, and Gulf Railway | SAL | 1926 | 1943 | N/A | ||
Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad | SAL | 1869 | 1882 | Florida Central and Western Railroad | ||
Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax River Railway | FEC | 1881 | 1892 | Florida Coast and Gulf Railway | ||
Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Indian River Railway | FEC | 1892 | 1895 | Florida East Coast Railway | ||
Jacksonville and St. John's River Railway | ACL | 1899 | 1899 | Savannah, Florida and Western Railway | ||
Jacksonville and Southwestern Railroad | ACL | 1899 | 1904 | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | ||
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway | ACL | 1881 | 1899 | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Jacksonville and St. John's River Railway | ||
Jacksonville Terminal Company | JTCO | ACL/ FEC/ SAL/ SOU | 1894 | 1978 | N/A | |
JXPT | 1989 | 1996 | Talleyrand Terminal Railroad | |||
Jupiter and Lake Worth Railway | 1888 | 1895 | N/A | |||
Kissimmee River Railway | SAL | 1917 | N/A | |||
Lake Monroe and Orlando Railroad | ACL | 1875 | 1879 | South Florida Railroad | ||
Lake Wimico and St. Joseph Canal and Railroad Company | 1836 | 1841 | N/A | |||
SAL | 1881 | 1884 | Florida Railway and Navigation Company | |||
Live Oak and Gulf Railway | 1894 | 1904 | ||||
SOU | 1903 | 1905 | ||||
1995 | 1999 | Georgia and Florida RailNet | ||||
SOU | 1905 | 1971 | Live Oak, Perry and South Georgia Railway | |||
Live Oak, Perry and South Georgia Railway | LPSG | SOU | 1971 | 1993 | Georgia Southern and Florida Railway | |
Live Oak and Rowland's Bluff Railroad | ACL | 1881 | 1884 | Savannah, Florida and Western Railway | ||
Live Oak, Tampa and Charlotte Harbor Railroad | ACL | 1881 | 1884 | Savannah, Florida and Western Railway | ||
Louisville and Nashville Railroad | L&N, LN | L&N | 1880 | 1983 | Seaboard System Railroad | |
SOU | 1884 | 1889 | Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad | |||
1922 | N/A | |||||
M&BT, MBT | 1909 | 1972 | N/A | |||
MSBP | SLSF | 1924 | 1928 | St. Louis ��� San Francisco Railway | ||
MSBP | SLSF | 1922 | 1924 | |||
Naples, Seaboard, and Gulf Railway | SAL | 1926 | Seaboard Air Line Railroad | |||
Ocala Northern Railroad | 1909 | 1915 | Ocklawaha Valley Railroad | |||
1923 | N/A | |||||
Ocklawaha Valley Railroad | 1915 | 1922 | N/A | |||
Orange Belt Railway | ACL | 1885 | 1893 | Sanford and St. Petersburg Railroad | ||
Orange Ridge, DeLand and Atlantic Railroad | ACL | 1880 | 1886 | DeLand and St. John's River Railroad | ||
Orlando and Winter Park Railway | SAL | 1886 | 1891 | East Florida and Atlantic Railroad | ||
FEC | 1887 | 1898 | Florida East Coast Railway | |||
Osceola and Lake Jesup Railway | SAL | 1889 | 1891 | East Florida and Atlantic Railroad | ||
FEC | 1888 | 1893 | Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Indian River Railway | |||
ACL | 1881 | 1887 | Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway | |||
1906 | 1923 | N/A | ||||
Peninsular Railroad | SAL | 1878 | 1883 | Florida Transit and Peninsular Railroad | ||
Pensacola Railroad | L&N | 1877 | 1880 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | ||
SLSF | 1892 | 1915 | ||||
Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad | L&N | 1881 | 1891 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | ||
Pensacola and Fort Barrancas Railroad | L&N | 1870 | 1882 | |||
1906 | ||||||
1897 | 1906 | |||||
Pensacola and Georgia Railroad | SAL | 1853 | 1869 | Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, Tallahassee Railroad | ||
Pensacola and Louisville Railroad | L&N | 1868 | 1878 | Pensacola Railroad | ||
L&N | 1861 | 1881 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
SLSF | 1907 | 1917 | ||||
SLSF | 1869 | 1915 | ||||
1882 | 1891 | |||||
1891 | 1897 | |||||
Plant System | ACL | 1894 | 1902 | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | ||
Plant City, Arcadia, and Gulf Railroad | SAL | 1905 | 1909 | Seaboard Air Line Railway | ||
SAL | 1916 | |||||
1912 | 1929 | N/A | ||||
1914 | ||||||
FEC | 1889 | 1893 | Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Indian River Railway | |||
FEC | 1886 | 1889 | ||||
1886 | ||||||
St. Cloud and Sugar Belt Railway | ACL | 1888 | 1893 | South Florida Railroad | ||
FEC | 1858 | 1893 | Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Indian River Railway | |||
St. Johns and Halifax Railway | FEC | 1881 | 1888 | |||
FEC | 1888 | 1893 | Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Indian River Railway | |||
ACL | 1896 | 1902 | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | |||
ACL | 1879 | 1896 | ||||
St. Johns River Terminal Company | SJRT | SOU | 1901 | |||
St. Louis – San Francisco Railway | SLSF | SLSF | 1928 | 1980 | Burlington Northern Inc. | |
ACL | 1908 | 1913 | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | |||
Sanford and Indian River Railroad | ACL | 1881 | 1893 | South Florida Railroad | ||
ACL | 1885 | 1890 | Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway | |||
Sanford and St. Petersburg Railroad | ACL | 1893 | 1903 | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | ||
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway | ACL | 1876 | 1902 | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | ||
Seaboard Air Line Railroad | SAL | SAL | 1946 | 1967 | Seaboard Coast Line Railroad | |
Seaboard Air Line Railway | SAL | 1900 | 1945 | Seaboard Air Line Railroad | ||
Seaboard-All Florida Railway | SAL | 1925 | 1945 | Seaboard Air Line Railroad | ||
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad | SCL | 1967 | 1983 | Seaboard System Railroad | ||
Seaboard System Railroad | SBD | 1983 | 1986 | CSX Transportation | ||
Silver Springs, Ocala and Gulf Railroad | ACL | 1875 | 1901 | Savannah, Florida and Western Railway | ||
South Central Florida Railroad | SCFE | 1990 | 1994 | South Central Florida Express, Inc. | ||
South Florida Railroad | ACL | 1879 | 1893 | Savannah, Florida and Western Railway | ||
1914 | 1918 | N/A | ||||
SOU | 1900 | 1971 | Live Oak, Perry and South Georgia Railway | |||
FEC | 1899 | 1902 | Florida East Coast Railway | |||
1892 | 1899 | N/A | ||||
SAL | 1903 | 1916 | ||||
SAL | 1890 | Atlantic, Suwannee River and Gulf Railway | ||||
1900 | 1905 | |||||
Tallahassee Railroad | SAL | 1834 | 1870 | Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad | ||
SAL | 1905 | 1909 | Seaboard Air Line Railway | |||
SAL | 1895 | 1906 | ||||
Tampa and Gulf Coast Railroad | SAL | 1913 | 1976 | Seaboard Coast Line Railroad | ||
SAL | 1909 | 1913 | Tampa and Gulf Coast Railroad | |||
Tampa and Jacksonville Railway | SAL | 1906 | 1927 | |||
Tampa Northern Railroad | TN | SAL | 1906 | 1946 | Seaboard Air Line Railroad | |
Tampa, Peace Creek and St. John's River Railroad | ACL | 1878 | 1881 | Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway | ||
Tampa Southern Railroad | TAS | ACL | 1917 | 1982 | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | |
SAL | 1906 | |||||
Tampa and Thonotosassa Railroad | ACL | 1893 | 1901 | Savannah, Florida and Western Railway | ||
ACL/ SAL | 1910 | 1968 | N/A | |||
SAL | 1881 | 1890 | ||||
TV&G | SAL | 1890 | 1969 | Seaboard Coast Line Railroad | ||
Tavares, Eustis & Gulf Railroad | TE&G | 2011 | 2017 | |||
Tavares, Orlando and Atlantic Railroad | SAL | 1881 | 1891 | Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad | ||
Thomasville, Tallahassee and Gulf Railroad | SAL | 1882 | 1888 | |||
1924 | 1953 | N/A | ||||
Tropical Florida Railroad | SAL | 1881 | 1883 | Florida Transit and Peninsular Railroad | ||
SAL | 1900 | 1903 | Florida West Shore Railway | |||
Valdosta Southern Railroad | VSO | 1951 | 1972 | N/A | ||
G&F | 1895 | 1907 | ||||
SOU | 1900 | 1924 | ||||
West India Fruit and Steamship Company | WIF | 1946 | 1961 | N/A | ||
1886 | 1892 | Leased the | ||||
Winston and Bone Valley Railroad | ACL | 1892 | 1909 | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | ||
Withlacoochee Railway | G&F | 1893 | 1895 | |||
ACL | 1900 | 1902 | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | |||
SAL | 1887 | 1906 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
Notes[]
References[]
- ^ a b c Turner, Gregg (2003). A Short History of Florida Railroads. Arcadia Publishing. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-7385-2421-4.
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