Seth Bramson 128 pages softcover
The history of Florida
railroads began as early as 1834, when the Tallahassee-St. Marks
Railroad incorporated. On April 14, 1836, the St. Joseph-Lake Wimico
line was the first to be put into service, with trains operating between
the boomtown of St. Joseph and the Apalachicola River. Although the
Florida railroad "boom" began with Henry Flagler and Henry Bradley
Plant, the expansion continued into the 1920s when the president of
Seaboard Railway, S. Davies Warfield, extended his lines to Miami and
Naples. With the passage of time, numerous railroads were bought,
merged, or abandoned. Today, 12 full-service railroads are still
operating as well as several port railroads