Expecting a train?
No train will stop to pick up the folk on the platform of Lake Placid railroad depot. Passenger service at the former Atlantic Coast Line depot ceased in the 1960s. The 1926-built depot now houses a museum and is maintained by the Lake Placid Historical Society. But a vestigial train service does use the tracks in the foreground: the grandly-named South Central Florida Express is a short line that conveys the cane harvested by US Sugar around Lake Okeechobee to the south.
Expecting a train?
No train will stop to pick up the folk on the platform of Lake Placid railroad depot. Passenger service at the former Atlantic Coast Line depot ceased in the 1960s. The 1926-built depot now houses a museum and is maintained by the Lake Placid Historical Society. But a vestigial train service does use the tracks in the foreground: the grandly-named South Central Florida Express is a short line that conveys the cane harvested by US Sugar around Lake Okeechobee to the south.