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Amtrak baggage men (notice those plaid pants) are in the process of loading New York Times newspapers from an old ACL baggage float located on the platform into a baggage car at the Saint Petersburg, Florida, SCL - Amtrak station, in 1973. The older man with the cap that was climbing up into the car is Frank, which was an old ACL baggage man and former Red Cap with much seniority. The train is the soon departing Floridian headed to Chicago.
This was a B&W photo that I colorized.
Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Coast Line markings are visible on a well-worn phosphate hopper at Doswell, Virginia on June 21, 2009.
CSX I007-05 with CSX 1871 in the fresh Atlantic Coast Line (ACL) scheme leading headed westbound through Lyons NY bound for Rose Lake IL 12-6-23.
Seaboard Coast Line GE locomotive crew change at station platform in Sanford, Florida, 1975. The first locomotive is a GE U30B # 1708, and the second locomotive is GE U33B # 1734. T
his station was a former ACL property.
Former Atlantic Coast Line station that is now part of the Tifton Terminal Railway Museum in Tifton, Georgia.
Seaboard Coast Line (Family Lines System) westbound manifest freight train is seen passing the old out of service Church Street Station platform area while on the mainline in downtown Orlando, Florida, mid 1970's. The train is led by GE U36B locomotive # 1787, followed by EMD GP40-2 locomotive # 1639 & EMD GP40 locomotive #1603. A TOFC car with a piggyback trailer aboard is seen passing wearing "The Family Lines System" logo.
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H.T. Klugel Architectural Sheet Metal Works was established in Emporia,, Virginia in 1914 at the junction of two rail lines—the Atlantic Coast Line and the Southern Railroad. This location was to figure in the expansion of his business. Klugel, a tinsmith, was from Danville, Illinois, learning the trade from his father. His shop produced a variety of goods for local needs such as cornices, gutters, drain pipes, stove flues, marquees, decorative details, and others. A customer, who might need prefabricated pressed metal ceilings, he would have them select from catalogs. They would arrive by rail, facilitating his installation of items for his customers. His business supplied contractors all over southeastern Virginia. The sheet metal façade of his own shop became an advertisement for his goods and skills, displaying a variety of metal ornaments such as swags, circles, geometric patterns and lions’ heads. The structure is a unique example of a decorative sheet metal façade for a store, and it was all produced in Emporia. Ads were painted on the brick sides of the building. The building is styled as Edwardian Classicism in the nomination form for the National Register of Historic Places. As an architectural viewing amateur, I’m not certain what this is, even after reading about it. The building was added to the Register April 2, 1973 with identification #73002208. The nomination form is available at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources
www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Emporia/109-0005_Kl...
As a factory for tin goods, the building was intended to be utilitarian. Originally ell-shaped, a cinderblock addition has made the structure rectangular. The flat-roofed building with parapets on the sides is made of American bond brick, which is not visible viewing only the front façade. A color combination of silver and black is used throughout the façade ornamentation. At the top of the front façade is a pediment mounted on two short pedestals, each flanked by volutes. Inside the pediment is floral ornamentation. Beneath the pediment a panel shows what I call a sun-burst motif (the nomination form refers to this a part of a patera—( www.decorartsnow.com/2013/05/28/design-dictionary-patera-... ). Another pedestal is above the pediment and is topped by a finial in the shape of an onion dome. Below the pediment is an inscription within panels of various sizes—1902 H. T. Klugel 1914”. To each side of this inscription is a balustrade with two pedestals topped by small onion dome finials. The cornice just below has dentils and modillions or brackets. The horizontal second level with a geometric sheet metal design has three distinct areas: the middle with the inscription “Architectural Sheet Metal Work” on the patterned background and flanked with roundels that show keystone motifs; the right section shows a raised panel with the words “Skylights” and the left shows a raised panel with the writing “Cornices”. Below each of these latter two sections are swags of flowers and drapery. The first level contains two arched entrances both with soffit and with double doors; the central entrance is recessed. Just above the arch of the center door is a keystone. On either side of the main entrance are figures of lion’s heads with floral decoration; a pattern of circles is below each of the lion’s heads. The windows are arched as well and contain fan tracery.
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South Shore Park has been a national park in Bermuda since 1990.
The park stretches from Warwick Long Bay to Horseshoe Bay Beach.
A trail along the cliffs and the beaches offers gorgeous ocean views and tiny, secluded beach coves.
I walked the trail in September 2016. This is one of the many gorgeous ocean views.
This was before I sorta knew what I was doing with a camera, and also before I was introduced to the DSLR world
Seaboard Coast Line ex Business-Office car Jacksonville is seen on display with other railroad equipment at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1984. This car was originally an Atlantic Coast Line Business Office and was owned previously by the late William Savage of Tampa, Florida. He purchase the car in the 1970's from SCL because this car when operated by the ACL was his Father's assigned car as a Vice President of ACL. Some of the under-body equipment has been removed by this date. The first time that I had seen this ACL Business-Office car was back in the 1960's in Jacksonville, Florida. This photo came from an Internet scan. The photo has been cropped and modified from the original to improve its appearance. The original photographer's name is unknown.
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Led by E8 locomotive 546, a passenger train departs the downtown St. Petersburg Atlantic Coast Line depot. The photo collector opinies the year as 1962, but our experts (see following comments) say perhaps around 1957. At the left, a baggage handler with STOP sign in hand directs vehicular traffic. Alvin Lederer collection
Henry M. Flagler's Florida East Coast Railroad Line reached Palm Beach in 1894. The Seaboard Airline Railroad Line laid tracks to Palm Beach as late as 1921-1924. It was after 1921 that the Seaboard Airline tracks reached West Palm Beach. Reference to the Seaboard Airline Railroad Station appears in a book printed in 1926.
S. Davis Warfield was president of Seaboard Air Line and in 1924 Warfield built a cross-state line that serviced West Palm Beach and Miami and Homestead in 1926, making a direct rail connection from one coast to the other, across the state. In 1938 the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Airline Railroad Line formed a network over Florida. Trains were air-conditioned and streamlined, and power was generated by Diesel-electric locomotives.
Stockholders in the railroad were important Palm Beach residents, and this station combined their taste in architecture, and their desire for service and convenience, for the community related to their vacation and retirement residences.
L. Phillips Clarke, who designed all of the Seaboard Railroad stations, built his first station at Auburndale. The West Palm Beach station appeared in 1924-1925.
The north-south dimension, paralleling the tracks, is approximately 178 feet. It is 43 feet deep, not including (at the sides) a 13-foot platform on the west. The building is mainly one story high, with a single office on a two-story level near the center and a three-stage tower on the south corner of the east or entrance facade on Tamarind Avenue.
The plan is rectangular, divided essentially in half, with express room and baggage room to the left or south, and behind the loggia the two waiting rooms, now one, separated on the east by restrooms and on the west by the ticket office. The loggia surrounds most of the front and ends, and the shed—roofed passenger platform on the rear or trackside.
The City of West Palm Beach, following a purchase of the building in 1988, tapped local architecture firm Oliver Glidden & Partners to head a $4.3 million restoration of the structure. The project was completed and the station rededicated in a ceremony attended by the Florida Governor in April 1991. Architect Robert D. Brown directed the restoration of ornamental cast stone elements, exterior masonry, doors, windows, and iron and tile work. The red clay tile roof was replaced, as were the electrical, lighting, plumbing and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. Abatement of lead and asbestos was further required to bring the historic structure up to modern building code standards. The restoration effort earned the Florida Trust Award for Historic Preservation in 1994.
In summer 2012, the city finished an improvement project that included the installation of new sidewalks and more than five dozen trees around the building. The improvements were funded with a $750,000 Transportation Enhancement grant from the Federal Highway Administration, to which the city provided a $150,000 local match.
The station has two side platforms, with access to the station on both sides. West of the southbound platform is a long loop of bus bays serving Palm Tran routes. East of the northbound platform is the station house, a small parking lot, and bus stops for Greyhound Lines buses and Tri-Rail shuttles.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Palm_Beach_Seaboard_Coastline_...
historic-structures.com/fl/west_palm_beach/seaboard_railr....
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Seaboard Coast Line GE locomotives are seen at the station platform in Sanford, Florida 1975. Locomotive # 1734, is a GE U33B, and it is followed by locomotive # 1708, a GE U30B. Seen on the left side background is a GE U18B locomotive. On the far right is what appears to be an EMD switcher moving some cars. The passenger cars seen in the background are from the original Auto-Train fleet and are in their own station yard tracks. Stamford was always a fairly busy station with re-fueling of locomotives performed on the main line platform tracks. At this location water was also supplied to passenger trains. Various freight train movements were handled out of this location, plus there was a small locomotive maintenance facility located there. This also was a station stop for Amtrak trains.
Seaboard Coast Line sad hose to be used no longer at the former ACL passenger station in Trilby, Florida, 4-4-1976, Fred Clark, Jr. Back in the day the ACL passenger trains from Saint Petersburg used this station along its route to Jacksonville. The old Trilby station building is seen along the platform in the background. This hose was used to re-supply water to passenger cars. Some ACL passenger trains that passed through this station then used the Perry Cut Off and traveled on their way to Chicago, while by-passing Jacksonville. Fred always thought and felt that this old worn out hose told a story.
This photo is from the Fred Clark Jr. photo collection, courtesy of Mark Zelinski. Any credit for this photo must be provided to the original photographer Fred Clark Jr.
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The small hamlet of Cope, South Carolina was named after Jacob Martin Cope who sold a piece of his farmland for a town and train depot in the late 1800s. The depot was built in 1893. It was built by the Manchester and Augusta Railroad before being acquired by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. The depot is located along what is today the CSX Orangeburg Subdivision. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. The last passenger train rolled out of Cope in the 1960s, but the town has recently refurbished the old depot and uses it for local events.
The Manchester and Augusta Railroad was chartered in the 1870s, and built a line from Sumter, South Carolina, southwest to Denmark, South Carolina passing through Cope. That railroad became part of the Atlantic Coast Line in 1898 and then part of Seaboard Cast Line in 1967. Current owner CSX is trying to find a buyer for the railroad tracks through town. There is a coal-fired power plant near the depot that still sees traffic
One of Amtrak's main money-makers, the Auto Train, heads north through Folkston with two P40DCs in charge. The train has just gone around a stalled vehicle train which was originally supposed to go up the Jesup Sub in front of the Auto Train; the lead unit is now going to drag the train north to Waycross where the trailing power will be set out.
Atlantic Coast Line EMD switcher 59 is seen on east side of the downtown station, along with the sleeping cars of the soon departing West Coast Champion 192, just below 1st Street South in Saint Petersburg, Florida, ca early 1960's, photo courtesy of Tom Pavlucvcik. All station tracks connect to this single track seen in the foreground with it extending out onto the South Mole which is further to the east. The switcher brings departing trains from the yards to the station and pushes arriving trains from the station back to the yards. On the right side of the West Coast Champion's cars above are some head-end cars that were set off and spotted on a siding for unloading.
This photo came from the Tom Pavluvcik Collection and the original photographers name is unknown. Any credit for this photo must be provided to the original photographer.
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The Southern tip of Florida, while offering much for tourists and vacationers, does not offer much for railfans. Seminole Gulf does operate daily freight and dinner train service, but it can be very challenging to get any action.
This year I was skunked and did not get anything moving on SGLR. I did find this nice gem at the end of the SGLR "yard" in Ft. Myers. I say the paint has held up well for all the years it has baked in the Florida sun.
Two of the most unique E units at the Streamliners at Spencer were under the lights for a night photo shoot together, the North Carolina Transportation Museum's Atlantic Coast Line "Champion" and the Illinois Railway Museum's Burlington Route "Silver Pilot."
At 100 S. Central Avenue in Tifton, Gergia, is the former union passenger depot for Southern Railway and Atlantic Coast Line. The red brick building, constructed in 1916-17, now houses the Tifton/Tift County Chamber of Commerce.
Atlantic Coast Line westward view of the two track downtown right-of-way in the median along 1st Avenue South near the Webb's City Department Store in Saint Petersburg, Florida, 1962, photo courtesy of Tom Pavlucvcik. This photo was taken at 7th Street South, and you can see the signs on the nearby buildings and also the various vintage vehicles in the scene. When the new ACL station opened in 1963, and the downtown station was demolished, the tracks in the median on 1st Avenue South were also removed. This was the end of an era in Saint Petersburg.
This photo came from the Tom Pavluvcik Collection and the original photographers name is unknown. Any credit for this photo must be provided to the original photographer.
Copyright Disclaimer under Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for the purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
South Shore Park has been a national park in Bermuda since 1990.
The park stretches from Warwick Long Bay to Horseshoe Bay Beach.
A trail along the cliffs and the beaches offers gorgeous ocean views and tiny, secluded beach coves.
I walked the trail in September 2016. This is one of the many gorgeous ocean views.
Newly completed Atlantic Coast Line depot and nearby infrastructures as seen from the air, looking toward the southeast. Includes new railroad overpass above 38th Avenue N. This depot would continue to serve during the Seaboard Coast Line era and then the Amtrak era. Alvin Lederer Collection
Henry M. Flagler's Florida East Coast Railroad Line reached Palm Beach in 1894. The Seaboard Airline Railroad Line laid tracks to Palm Beach as late as 1921-1924. It was after 1921 that the Seaboard Airline tracks reached West Palm Beach. Reference to the Seaboard Airline Railroad Station appears in a book printed in 1926.
S. Davis Warfield was president of Seaboard Air Line and in 1924 Warfield built a cross-state line that serviced West Palm Beach and Miami and Homestead in 1926, making a direct rail connection from one coast to the other, across the state. In 1938 the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Airline Railroad Line formed a network over Florida. Trains were air-conditioned and streamlined, and power was generated by Diesel-electric locomotives.
Stockholders in the railroad were important Palm Beach residents, and this station combined their taste in architecture, and their desire for service and convenience, for the community related to their vacation and retirement residences.
L. Phillips Clarke, who designed all of the Seaboard Railroad stations, built his first station at Auburndale. The West Palm Beach station appeared in 1924-1925.
The north-south dimension, paralleling the tracks, is approximately 178 feet. It is 43 feet deep, not including (at the sides) a 13-foot platform on the west. The building is mainly one story high, with a single office on a two-story level near the center and a three-stage tower on the south corner of the east or entrance facade on Tamarind Avenue.
The plan is rectangular, divided essentially in half, with express room and baggage room to the left or south, and behind the loggia the two waiting rooms, now one, separated on the east by restrooms and on the west by the ticket office. The loggia surrounds most of the front and ends, and the shed—roofed passenger platform on the rear or trackside.
The City of West Palm Beach, following a purchase of the building in 1988, tapped local architecture firm Oliver Glidden & Partners to head a $4.3 million restoration of the structure. The project was completed and the station rededicated in a ceremony attended by the Florida Governor in April 1991. Architect Robert D. Brown directed the restoration of ornamental cast stone elements, exterior masonry, doors, windows, and iron and tile work. The red clay tile roof was replaced, as were the electrical, lighting, plumbing and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. Abatement of lead and asbestos was further required to bring the historic structure up to modern building code standards. The restoration effort earned the Florida Trust Award for Historic Preservation in 1994.
In summer 2012, the city finished an improvement project that included the installation of new sidewalks and more than five dozen trees around the building. The improvements were funded with a $750,000 Transportation Enhancement grant from the Federal Highway Administration, to which the city provided a $150,000 local match.
The station has two side platforms, with access to the station on both sides. West of the southbound platform is a long loop of bus bays serving Palm Tran routes. East of the northbound platform is the station house, a small parking lot, and bus stops for Greyhound Lines buses and Tri-Rail shuttles.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Palm_Beach_Seaboard_Coastline_...
historic-structures.com/fl/west_palm_beach/seaboard_railr....
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Seaboard Coast Line old ACL Church Street Station that is located in downtown Orlando, Florida, 1975. This old station had been out of service for several years when this photo was taken. The main line that passed through this area daily saw numerous SCL freight train movements along with a parade of Amtrak trains.