Railroads of St. Petersburg - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Title: Railroads of St. Petersburg


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The Railroads of St. Petersburg

• Tom Pavluvcik

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Railroad Developments

• Background
• Atlantic Coast Line (ACL)
• Seaboard Air Line Railway (SAL)
• Modern Tampa Bay Railroads

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Background

• Florida Railroad Development Begins in 1834
• Railroad to Central Florida Falls Short in 1861
• Civil War Intervenes
• State of Florida Land Boom 1881

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Rail route to Central Florida (red line) never
made it to Tampa Bay until after the Civil War
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Atlantic Coast Line (ACL)

• Henry Plant in Tampa 1883
• Orange Belt Investment Company 1885
• Orange Belt Railway to Oakland 1886
• Orange Belt Railway to St. Petersburg 1888
• Becomes Sanford St. Petersburg Railway 1893
• Leased to Plant System 1895
• Atlantic Coast Line 1902

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Route of Orange Belt Railway (red line)
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Orange Belt Railway train ca. 1888
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Wardsville ca. 1888
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Orange Belt Railway locomotive No. 10 in 1889
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St. Petersburg Orange Belt depot
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Orange Belt Railway train in front of Detroit
Hotel
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St. Petersburg railroad pier in 1903
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Heading out to meet a ship in 1894
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Typical passenger train in mid-1890s
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Men of the Sanford St. Petersburg railroad in
1897
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Plant System engine and tender
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Rail pier and ice works in 1898
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ACL depot in 1912
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New ACL depot in 1915
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ACL depot aerial view in 1921
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ACL depot in mid-1920s
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ACL Pinellas Special newspaper ad in 1915
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Private rail car in 1924
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ACL depot in 1919
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Pinellas Special departs ca. 1925
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St. Petersburg ACL depot in 1936
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ACL depot in 1945
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ACL depot in 1950
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ACL depot in 1958
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ACL depot in 1962
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ACL freight depot and Webbs City in mid-1950s
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Last train leaves downtown St. Petersburg in 1963
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New ACL depot near 38th Avenue N. opens in 1963
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New ACL depot trackside in 1963
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ACL Champion at new depot in 1963
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Seaboard Air Line Railway (SAL)

• Another Railroad Reaches Tampa 1890
• SAL Incorporated in 1900
• Tampa Northern Railroad 1906
• Tampa Gulf Coast Railway 1909
• Tampa Union Station 1912
• Tampa Gulf Coast Railroad to South Pinellas
  1914
• SAL Absorbs Two Smaller Railroads

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Bay area railroads in 1915
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F C P engine and tender in 1900
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Tampa Northern RR engine and tender in 1914
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Tampa Gulf Coast engine and tender in 1915
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SAL depot in 1932
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Silver Meteor loads passengers at St. Petersburg
in 1952
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Boarding passengers in St. Petersburg in 1956
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New SAL depot in 1959
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Former SAL depot in 2010
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Former SAL freight depot in 2005
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Modern Tampa Bay Railroads

• Seaboard Coast Line 1967
• Amtrak Arrives 1971
• Seaboard System Expands
• Amtrak Trains Leave Pinellas 1984
• Seaboard Becomes CSX 1986

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Silver Star in St. Petersburg in 1970
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Baggage man and Amtrak Floridian in 1972
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Amtrak Silver Star leaves St. Petersburg in 1983
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Seaboard System engines in Pinellas County in 1985
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CSX train passes former Amtrak depot in 2005
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CSX train near Tropicana Field in 2003
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CSX last freight delivery on Tropicana trestle in
2005
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CSX locomotives cross Central Avenue in 2004
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Railroads of Pinellas County - online

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