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The Jacksonville Terminal Subdivision is a group of railroad lines owned by CSX Transportation in and around Jacksonville, which was historically a major railroad hub. The Jacksonville Terminal Subdivision includes about 13.0 miles of track. [1]
The primary line through the Jacksonville Terminal Subdivision is the A Line, which is one of CSX's main lines in the eastern United States. Within the Jacksonville Terminal Subdivision, the A Line runs from Dinsmore south, passing Jackonville's Amtrak station, and through Grand Junction (historically known as Grand Crossing). Grand Junction is where it connects with the Kingsland Subdivision. Norfolk Southern Railway's Springfield Lead also crosses the A Line at Grand Junction. [2]
The A Line continues from Grand Junction south through Moncrief Yard to Beaver Street Interlocking. Here, the A Line connects with the S Line west to Baldwin, as well as the Florida East Coast Railway and Norfolk Southern's Valdosta District. [3]
From the interlocking, the A line continues southwest to St. Johns, where it continues as the Sanford Subdivision. [2]
All of Amtrak's passenger services through Florida run on the A Line. The A Line was previously the main line of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. [3]
The S Line currently runs east from Beaver Street Interlocking west to Baldwin. The S Line was previously the main line of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. At Baldwin, the S Line continues south as the Wildwood Subdivision. It also connects with the Callahan Subdivision to the north and the Florida Gulf and Atlantic Railroad to the west at Baldwin. Despite being part of the S Line historically, the line's mileposts have the prefix SP. [2]
Within the Jacksonville Terminal Subdivision, CSX operates two major yard facilities.
Moncrief Yard is located on the A Line just north of Beaver Street Interlocking. It serves as CSX's primary classification yard for the Jacksonville area. Moncrief Yard was previously the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad's main yard in Jacksonville. [3]
Duval Yard, also known as Jax Ramp, is located just northwest central Jacksonville. Duval Yard serves as an intermodal terminal for Jacksonville. The yard and its connecting track were built in the late 1970s by the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad for that purpose since Moncrief Yard was becoming too overcrowded. [3]
Railroad lines in Jacksonville were largely built at the end of the 1800s.
CSX's A Line north of Jacksonville (which leads to the Nahunta Subdivision) was originally part of the East Florida Railway. The A Line south of Jacksonville (which leads to the Sanford Subdivision) was part of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway. Both lines became part of the Plant System and later the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Grand Crossing was originally the junction between the East Florida Railway, the Jacksonville and Southwestern Railroad (now the Kingsland Subdivision), and the Atlantic, Valdosta and Western Railway (now Norfolk Southern). [4]
The S Line from Jacksonville west to Baldwin Junction was part of the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad, which became part of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. The S Line previously continued east and north beyond Beaver Street Interlocking toward Panama Park prior to the 1990s. The former right of way of this segment is now the S-Line Urban Greenway. The remaining S Line north of Panama Park is now part of the Kingsland Subdivision. The Seaboard Air Line never operated a yard within Jacksonville. Their main yard for the Jacksonville area was just west of Jacksonville in Baldwin. [3] Baldwin Yard is still in service and is now located on the Wildwood Subdivision.
With a large number of railroads operating in Jacksonville, the Jacksonville Terminal Company was chartered in 1894 to coordinate train movement of multiple railroads in the area, manage yards, and build Jacksonville Union Terminal, which opened in 1919. By 1902, the Jacksonville Terminal Company and the Union Terminal were jointly owned by five railroads. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Seaboard Air Line Railroad, and Florida East Coast Railway each owned 25% of the company, and the Southern Railway and the Georgia Southern and Florida Railway each with 12.5% ownership. [4] The Jacksonville Terminal Company ceased operations in 1976 when the Union Terminal closed and Amtrak opened its current Jacksonville station on the northside of town. [5]
An interlocking tower once stood at the north side of Beaver Street Interlocking. The tower was demolished in 1999 to accommodate the new wider Beaver Street (US 90) overpass. The interlocking is now controlled by Centralized traffic control signals controlled by dispatchers. [3]
In 1967, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad merged to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. In the late 1970s, the Seaboard Coast Line built Duval Yard and Intermodal Ramp and associated tracks on the northwest side of town. Duval was built to handle intermodal traffic, since the areas other yards were too overcrowded by then. Duval Yard is connected to the A Line on the north end and the S Line on the south end. [3]
Seaboard Coast Line became CSX Transportation in 1986 after merging with the Chessie System. Norfolk Southern and the Florida East Coast Railway have trackage rights on CSX have trackage rights on CSX to interchange with one another and with CSX at Moncrief Yard. CSX also has trackage rights on the Florida East Coast Railway into their Bowden Yard and on the Norfolk Southern into their Simpson Yard. [3] [2]
CSX Transportation, known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad operating in the eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad operates approximately 21,000 route miles (34,000 km) of track. The company operates as the leading subsidiary of CSX Corporation, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.
The South Florida Railroad was a railroad from Sanford, Florida, to Tampa, Florida, becoming part of the Plant System in 1893 and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1902. It served as the southernmost segment of the Atlantic Coast Line's main line. The line remains in service today and is now part of the Central Florida Rail Corridor in the Orlando metro area. The rest of the line remains under the ownership of CSX Transportation as part of their A Line.
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The Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad was the final name of a system of railroads throughout Florida, becoming part of the Seaboard Air Line Railway in 1900. The system, including some of the first railroads in Florida, stretched from Jacksonville west through Tallahassee and south to Tampa. Much of the FC&P network is still in service under the ownership of CSX Transportation.
The First Coast Railroad is a class III railroad operating in Florida and Georgia, owned by Genesee and Wyoming Inc. The name is derived from its area of operations around the First Coast of Florida.
The Jacksonville & Southwestern Railroad (J&SW) was a railroad that served Florida from 1899 to 1904. It was purchased by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1904; some of the original right-of-way was converted to a recreational path in the rails to trails program in the 1990s.
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The Tampa Southern Railroad was a subsidiary of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL) originally running from Uceta Yard in Tampa south to Palmetto, Bradenton, and Sarasota with a later extension southeast to Fort Ogden in the Peace River valley built shortly after. It was one of many rail lines completed during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. Most of the remaining trackage now serves as CSX Transportation's Palmetto Subdivision. Another short portion just east of Sarasota also remains that is now operated by Seminole Gulf Railway.
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The Kingsland Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in Northeast Florida. The line begins in Jacksonville at a junction with the A Line near Moncrief Yard. From there, it heads east and then turns north near Panama Park. From Panama Park, the Kingsland Subdivision heads north to Yulee on a discontinuous piece of CSX's S Line. In Yulee, the line connects with the First Coast Railroad, which operates north to Seals, Georgia, on tracks that were previously part of the Kingsland Subdivision prior to 2005.
The Tampa Terminal Subdivision is a group of railroad lines owned by CSX Transportation in and around Tampa, Florida. The Tampa Terminal Subdivision covers track around Yeoman and Uceta Yards and is located at the end of two of CSX's U.S. East Coast main lines to Richmond, Virginia, the A Line and the S Line.
CSX Transportation's Valrico Subdivision is a railroad line in Central Florida. It serves as CSX's main route through a region of Central Florida known as the Bone Valley, which contains the largest known deposits of phosphate in the United States.
The Wildwood Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in Florida. It runs along CSX's S Line from Baldwin south to Zephyrhills via Ocala and Wildwood for a total of 155.7 miles. The S Line is CSX's designation for the line that was the Seaboard Air Line Railroad main line from 1903 to 1967.
The Yeoman Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in Florida. It runs along CSX’s S Line from Zephyrhills south to just east of Tampa via Plant City for a total of 31.2 miles.
The Tampa Northern Railroad was a historic railroad line running from just east of downtown Tampa north to the city of Brooksville in Hernando County. The line continues to operate today and is under the ownership of the CSX Corporation, who operates it as their Brooksville Subdivision north of Sulphur Springs and part of their Clearwater Subdivision south of there.
The Winston and Bone Valley Railroad was a railroad line running the Bone Valley region of Central Florida. It connected to the South Florida Railroad main line near Lakeland. A vast majority of the line remains in service by CSX Transportation, who operates it today as their Bone Valley Subdivision.
The Florida Gulf & Atlantic Railroad is a Class III railroad owned and operated by RailUSA in the Florida Panhandle. The line consists of 373 miles of track running from Baldwin, Florida west through Tallahassee to Pensacola. The line also has a short branch from Tallahassee north to Attapulgus, Georgia. The line connects to CSX lines in Baldwin, Pensacola, and Attapulgus.
The Waycross Short Line was the unofficial name of a railroad line built by Henry B. Plant that ran from Waycross, Georgia to Jacksonville, Florida on the St. Johns River. The line through Georgia was chartered by Plant as the Waycross and Florida Railroad and the Florida segment was chartered as the East Florida Railway. The line crossed the Georgia/Florida border just south of Folkston, Georgia at the St. Marys River.
